[DISCUSSION] Who has a living dex?

[Lythania]

Forgive me for the text wall here, rofl!

I started my living dex before I even knew that term and recently fully completed it for the first time since my very first Pokémon game (Yellow, from the Yellow GBC bundle I got as a Christmas gift in 1999). xD  I wanted to be able to have all of the evolutionary forms so that they'd all be counted in my Pokédex whenever I moved them over to the next game. I'm not sure when exactly that was, but I'm guessing it was around the time that the number of Pokémon was pretty large.. Hm.. Probably around the time period of Diamond/Pearl/Platinum.

I was extremely close to finishing my dex when I joined this site. I started a thread, got a few events I was missing, and got a few other events from asking around in AuSLove's Twitch chat. I'm very grateful to those who helped me with that. (I'm rather self-sufficient and simply didn't have the right sort of internet connectivity until Pokémon X. I think that's why it took me so blasted long!)

I earned nearly all of my Pokémon by myself through WiFi and IRL events, breeding, painstaking leveling, and transferring from one game to the next. I got a handful of them by Wonder Trading and gathered all the Vivillon patterns by checking the GTS rather often. I think I got the Pokéball Vivillon pattern from the Vivillon subforum on reddit. (I also caught all of the Unown patterns back in Pearl's Solaceon Ruins.)

I have both a DSLite and a 3DS, and, I have Emerald, Pearl, Platinum, Soul Silver, White 2, X, and Alpha Sapphire. (Not counting my original Yellow and Silver, though I do have the rerelease of Yellow.) I've gotten some rather interesting Pokémon from Wonder Trading so no complaints there hahah.

It feels incredibly good to have my living dex complete and in order a little while before Sun & Moon are set to hit the shelves!