Proudest or biggest personal achievement in the Pokemon games.

[nel3]

I'm sure everyone has certain goals or achievements they have done in the present or past Pokemon games. It could be having a living shiny dex, living legend/event dex or some lofty goal by accumulating various items in the game ETC. Is anyone here in the process of gong through such a achievement or has already reached it?

My biggest personal achievement was completing a complete foreign Pokemon dex back in Pokemon X. It took several months but i managed to fill out all the normally evolving Pokemon in my savefile. I was trying to fill out all the foreign legendary Pokemon but only got around to 10-20% of the foreign legendary Pokemon. I didnt start off with that goal right away but i ended up doing it to pass the time until gen7 came out. I also did breed out full sets (2-3 spares each) in Pokemon OR in both Italian and Korean languages to help me get a good start whenever i do a similar task in future games.

 

[Satoshi & Touko]

I would say maxing out my Plaza rank, but I'm only at 969. Got 30 more rank ups to go. In the meantime, I guess my proudest achievement is that my first ever battle team is half-shinies. Not only that but 100% legit too. No hacks. No clones. No nothing. In the house hatch-and-raise breeding. Only exception to the in-house thing is that I always have a foreign Pokemon in the pair to do the MM method.

 

[nel3]

i would love to max out my plaza level too but im going at a pace that is rather leisurely. if i can get to lvl 450 i'll be happy enough to get that far but i'll get closer to 999 if its possible.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I once beat Crystal in less than 24 game time before and that time includes climbing Mt. Silver to challenge Red and defeat him.

 

[Cyberra]

Actually completing the entire national dex in Y, 720/720, and getting the shiny charm. Something I hadn't been able to do in any of the other games I'd played before.

 

[RedJirachi]

Getting all 1.5 million points in the Poke Finder

 

[ForYou2DaMoon]

Probably not as great as I once thought it was, but I once beat the elite 4 on a nuzlocke with an Oddish after all my other Pokémon had died.

 

[PrinceOfFacade]

- Kicking Whitney's ***.
- Kicking Cynthia's ***.
- Defeating the Elite Four and Champion with only one pokemon (it was Arceus, but it was still pretty sweet).

 

[Shayminslicker]

Logging in 857 hours on Pokemon X. I was hoping to max out the clock, but this is close enough.

 

[Nerdy McNerdface]

Hmm, I'll list a few that felt good for me.

- Beating my first champion. I won against Steven with only an underlevelled Uxie that had Future Sight, Extrasensory, something else (it was a psychic move but my mind has gone blank) and Yawn, plus a Rocky Helmet, that won on just 48hp and no potions. It was a legendary, but still...

- Completing my first Nuzlocke. I tried out an X Wonderlocke, and I'd actually say that it was really good from the moment I had both a Bred Garchomp and a Bred Mawile on my team. I only got three deaths (RIP Plusle, Mightyena and Aurorus), so that was really great. I also asked a friend if they could trade me a Mawilite from their ORAS copy so I guess the game was won from there. Also the fact that without grinding at all my Mawile still ended up at level 82 by the time I reached Diantha. So this wasn't really a massive achievement I guess? Oh idk.

- Not losing a single battle in Moon. It was a super-challenging game, but I still pulled through at every battle somehow. I'd say that the best incident was when I battled Olivia and beat her level 27 Midnight Lycanroc with my level 22 Carbink by using three Sharpens and some Smack Downs. Also when I beat the champion with my last move being from my Carbink. Yes, a lot of these involve my Carbink, but since it was essentially my team's practical joke it made those times glorious.

- My first shiny. This was very recent, but I got my first shiny in the form of Togedemaru through SOS a couple of weeks ago. It appeared in only 35 ~ 36 encounters, but still took me three hours because the Togedemarus just wouldn't call for help at all. So when the little pink cutie showed up I had to stop myself from yelling.

- Making theories. This isn't an achievement within the games, but I've thought up several theories about Pokemon that have made me really proud of myself because they're actually pretty decent!

- Beating Maylene in Platinum. My Houndoom was the only thing that could take down her Lucario. It uses Force Palm, Houndoom lives on 4hp and lands a Fire Blast. That was a good day for me.

- Beating Cyrus in Platinum. I won against him with a team that had levels from 37 to 41. Idk how I did it, but it felt good.

Yeah that's all I can think of for now.

 

[Missingno.Fan]

On Moon I caught Necrozma in a Beast Ball and on my first Pearl play through I beat Byron only because his Bastidon knocked itself out from Struggle.

 

[RedJirachi]

On Moon I caught Necrozma in a Beast Ball and on my first Pearl play through I beat Byron only because his Bastidon knocked itself out from Struggle.

The latter must've been a rather boring battle to wait until Bastiodon uses Struggle

 

[oarfish]

For me, that would be an odd list. Such as soloing generation V's Pokémon league with the following (by solo, I mean I beat the entire league with only one Pokémon):
Gliscor
Skarmory
Haxorus
Durant
I thought I would have remembered more of the Pokémon I did this with when I stared typing this, but I am blanking on most of them at the moment. I did it nearly 100 times with over a dozen different Pokémon during BW / BW2.

Of course, having a living Pokedex (including all events) starting in generation VI. Currently working on a second to keep in generation VI games for replayable shiny charm obtaining / shiny hunting.
Also, having at least one of all possible shiny legendary Pokémon (at least two of nearly all of them). I enjoy collecting them, and if any generation VII legendaries are not shiny locked in USUM, then I shall get them as well.
Hatching many 5 IV shinies starting in generation VI. I enjoy breeding useful shinies of my own.
Here are a few others: Total SR's for a shiny legend record--3 SR's (4 encounters). Total eggs hatched for a shiny MM hunt record: 2 eggs.

I may edit this because I find this thread interesting. I appreciate everyone else's accomplishments, and I am glad that others like going for them as well.

 

[nel3]

The latter must've been a rather boring battle to wait until Bastiodon uses Struggle

its an interesting struggle to do such a feat. i got the elite 4 toucannon to struggle to death when i was leveling up the Suicune i got from GTS and another pkmn i was trying to lvl up. yeah sure it was boring burning up hyper potions but i pressured it to death and put in the pkmn that i initially tried to KO toucannon with to receive the last struggle. its a good feeling to do that even though the game doesnt care about it.

 

[Kalosian]

On top of my head:

- Getting 242 Medals in B2/W2
- Completing the Regional and National Dex in every game (except S/M for National), and the National Dex on Bank (missing Marshadow of course, but I'll get it once it is out)
- Learning and mastering Entralink RNG in B/W, one of my most hardcore Pokemon moments ever. Sadly, I only got to RNG 4 Pokemon using it, but those turned out amazing
- Somewhat similar, learning and mastering regular RNG in Generations 4 & 5, getting all those perfect Pokemon was a dream coming true
- Beating the Battle Facilities in most games, the only exeptions are the Crystal Battle Tower, the Factory in Emerald/Platinum, and the Tree in S/M (which I'm currently working on)

There's probably more but those are what I could think about right now.

 

[Team Volt Grunt]

Completing and maintaining my living pokedex

 

[mystic9899]

-Completing the National Pokedex in OR/AS
-Getting 1.5 million thumbs-up on the PokeFinder in S/M
-Beating Red in HG/SS
-Beating my cousin (who introduced me to Pokemon) in a battle in D/P.

 

[VampirateMace]

I guess completing the Dex in Emerald. Or running through Platinum with only bugs. My pokemon goals are not that high.

 

[marsrunner]

- Completing the Living Dex in ORAS, complete with every single gender/form difference. All the Pokemon are legit with my name on them, and the mythicals are all mine with the lone exception of Diancie. I got started in Pokemon right after the Diancie event ended, so I had to settle for a traded one that may or may not be legit. It looks legit, everything matches the event dex, but that's not 100% guarantee.
- Breeding my first shiny team. I've done it four times now. I always start with all three starters from one gen and then fill out the team with whatever Pokemon I don't have shiny yet. Just have the Gen 4, 5 and 6 starters to go.
- Reaching 100, 200 and then 300 shinies. All legit, all with my name on them. Lots of hours of horde battles, dex nav chains, sos battles and breeding. Sure I have the shiny charm but it still takes a while. This is not something I would have even bothered with if I'd been playing in the earlier games where there was no shiny charm and the chance of encountering a shiny was one in 8000.

 

[Sceptile Leaf Blade]

Collecting all gold symbols in the Emerald Battle Frontier for me. I still have that save file on my Emerald cardridge with something like 750 hours logged.