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simply-serperior · 2 years

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SERPERIOR as your partner pokémon!

> platonic.

> gender neutral reader.

> serperior's referred to by it/its.

> pure self-indulgence lol.

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SNIVY.

it's a snobby, little brat. you love it anyways.

when you first received snivy from professor juniper, you were told that it was a little finnicky with humans.

unlike other starter pokémon, it wasn't from the breeders. snivy was caught from the wild.

there had been numerous times where snivy was indifferent and cold to most people.

you didn't get discouraged about it though. you've seen your parents handle grumpy wild steelixs before; you were fairly confident you could handle this pokémon.

when you meet it face-to-face, it judged you with a raised brow. nevertheless, you simply smiled and greeted it.

you introduced yourself as its trainer, which snivy simply looked unimpressed at.

not disheartened in the slightest, you decided to give it more time to adjust.

you let it sniff and inspect its new home (your house). you made sure to put a reasonable distance from it to avoid it getting overwhelmed.

it took a few weeks for snivy to get completely used to your presence, but you'd argue it was all worth it.

snivy was much more noticeably at ease, and it allowed you to approach it without getting vine whipped into oblivion. it was also more than happy to let you pet it.

two months after you met snivy, you asked it if it wanted to travel the world with you. no, you weren't really aiming to beat the gym challenge or become the next champion — you just wanted to see more of the world.

snivy wasn't against it, not at all. in fact, it was rather curious of what else the world had to offer.

by next week, you & snivy were out of your hometown to start your journeys.

now, your first battle with snivy went well. it was a rather speedy pokémon that had no problem overpowering opposing purrloins and patrats.

after each victory, it would do an prideful pose that you couldn't help but snicker at. it was obnoxiously adorable.

during nights where it was unbearably cold, snivy would snuggle closer to you, finding comfort napping with you than being in its pokéball. you weren't against it, finding the whole ordeal sweet.

when travelling by day, it would walk alongside you as you both took in the sights of unova. occasionally, it would wrap a vine around your wrist as if to hold your hand.

you heart had melted the first time it did that.

“aww.. you're absolutely adorable.”

at one point, you and snivy were attacked by a pack of sandiles while exploring the ruins of desert resort. backed into a corner, you held snivy in your arms as you looked for a way to escape.

tired of the sandiles terrorizing it and its trainer, snivy jumped out of your arms and emitted a bright light.

you shielded your face momentarily before peeking through the gaps of your fingers.

“snivy? are you.. evolving?”

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SERVINE.

oh.

oh, wow.

standing before you was now a newly evolved servine.

it narrowed its eyes at the pack of sandiles before sending a powerful leaf tornado. the super effective attack directly hits its targets, and the sandiles scurry away from the both of you.

at that point, you had fully comprehended the situation.

your snivy is now a servine. wow.

it would take a while to get used to the sudden name change, but you were extremely happy for your partner.

servine looked back at you with a smug and prideful smirk, and you grinned back.

“damn servine, you kicked ass!”

now evolved, your servine was now more powerful than ever. it was quicker and a lot stronger, an observation you made after battling a few more trainers.

it was fun to troll others with the substitute + leech seed + protect combo. it made people mad but you and servine had a good laugh.

with servine, areas that were previously harder to traverse were also now much more manageable.

it managed to learn a plethora of useful moves that aided you with your journey. you made sure to spoil it rotten with snacks and goodies, oh — and lots of head pats & cuddles.

without a doubt, servine was your bestest friend.

after a few more months, you and servine had decided to take on the gym challenge.

now, you both weren't taking it too seriously, but it would be good to have a few badges to prove yours and servine's strength. besides, servine wanted to have a taste of a gym battle — and you thought 'why not?' and signed up.

sure, there were a few.. rough match-ups. burgh was difficult with him being a master of bug-types; it was simply just you & servine, a grass-type, against the world.

weirdly enough, you managed to beat him after only two failed attempts. servine's speed was a huge factor in your victory.

impressed, burgh congratulated you two & gave you a potentially useful tm that servine could actually learn.

you & servine said your thanks and promptly continued on to the next gym.

“oh, your hidden power is rock? that'll sure save us a lot of trouble.”

safe to say that some future battles became a whole lot easier.

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SERPERIOR.

servine soon evolved into a serperior two months after your fight with burgh; it was during your battle with skyla.

it was rough. fighting flying-types with one grass-type was hard. perhaps impossible.

thankfully, hidden power was pulling its weight and made quick work of skyla's swanna & swoobat.

skyla's skarmory proved to be quite a problem though; rock moves weren't super effective because it was a half steel type.

servine was also pretty hurt after swanna managed to deal a flying type move to it before servine could knock it out.

frankly, everything was looking pretty grim for the two of you but you trusted servine. it trusted you as well.

without much options, you & servine just decided to chip away at it and try to dodge attacks as best as you two can. its speed helped with dodging most moves, but skarmory still managed to get a few, good hits in.

in the heat of battle, servine evolved into serperior. upon evolution, it was noticeably faster than ever before; it was easily able to dodge all of skarmory's attacks and hit its own moves. it was a surpise to see such a huge pokémon move as fast as it did.

due to the sudden power-up (it was an inside joke that you two had plot armor), you were able to beat skyla and recieve the flying type badge.

after the gym battle, you were so ectastic for serperior, you decided to spoil it with a whole night's feast.

you bought it pokepuffs, sweets, and its favorite food.

serperior was incredibly happy.

“what? you want more seconds? you already ate so much. y'know what— okay, but just this once.”

it was a jolly day.

travelling with serperior was fun. with its big size, it would lift you up to get a better view of something.

when napping together, its slender body would wrap around you cozily. however, it was now a little too big to comfortably fit in your old tent.

upon the realization, serperior was visibly upset as it sadly went back into its pokéball. the whole ordeal broke your heart into two, so you later bought a bigger tent that could fit both of you.

serperior was absolutely overjoyed.

good snek <3

upon reaching opelucid city, you found yourselves fighting drayden, the dragon type gym leader. beating the gym was a little difficult as dragon types were extremely powerful, but serperior managed to pull through with its speed and with the move 'dragon pulse'.

in comparison, battling the humilao gym leader was a whole lot easier; it was a water type gym, meaning serperior had no problem breezing through marlon's team.

upon beating the last gym, you and serperior weren't really sure what to do next.

sure, you had the qualifications for entering the pokémon league and trying your hand at beating the champion — but you highly doubted you could beat so many powerhouses with only one pokémon (the current champion had multiple legendaries for arceus' sake).

serperior had its doubts as well, but it couldn't really care less for the pokémon league anyway.

gym battles were mostly for fun and getting stronger. if anything, the thought of exploring regions with you was a lot more exciting than the thought of becoming champion.

after discussing things with serperior, you both decided that upon seeing all the sights of unova, you two would head out to other regions.

you two traveled to alola, sinnoh, kalos and kanto. with many more regions to explore and challenge, you and serperior had the time of your lives making precious memories.

serperior and [name], companions for life.

“come on, smile for the camera serperior! you look adorable in that flower crown. wha— hey! don't take it off!”

#pokemon x reader #pokemon #serperior #everything sets place in the unova region sometime after the events of b2&w2 #i love serperior sm this is just fulfilling the adventure 7 year old me used to daydream about #yeah b2&w2 protag is the current champion #pokemon partner series

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uncontrollablesphere · 6 months

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Living Dex Quest 2018—202?

I suddenly became possessed with the urge to record my progress like a week ago and wrote this in one day. Anyway, here's the goals, methods, hurdles, and current state of my living dex.

Goal

Obtain every single Pokémon of every stage and major form and put them in a single game (ultra sun or moon). Originally this goal was meant to update for each successive generation, but of course SwSh threw a wrench in that when it became the new standard to exclude certain Pokémon from being able to be transferred to certain games. I don’t want to pay for Pokémon home indefinitely, especially when I know it will eventually have its support cut just like bank, so I’ll just have gen 1-7 in a gen 7 game and gen 8 regional dex can stay in SwSh. Not sure I’ll do gen 9, I don’t even own SV and have no plans to.

Never really cared about the pokedex until I saw someone post a video of their living dex on here years ago, and a 5+ year quest was started. I really, really wanted to do it by playing a game from each gen and transferring Pokémon upwards in order to also have a complete regional dex in each game, thereby getting shiny charms where possible, but this is tedious and only practical if you have every game already. I used to.

Dealing with theft

In 2020, my progress was hindered when FRLG, DPPt, HGSS, XY, SUMO, USUM, two Nintendo ds, and more were stolen from me by my former roommate when I moved (everything listed above having a nearly or complete regional living dex on it as well as several long gone event exclusive mythical Pokémon). Five generations, hundreds of dollars, and those priceless mythical Pokémon, unobtainable in any game, lost instantly. To say this was demoralizing would be an understatement. I was slow to unpack my things after the move, so I was still finding out about new things that were stolen months after the fact. I was constantly reminded of a new “loss” every couple of weeks, as I was trying to get over it. I did not play Pokémon again for months, and I wasn’t sure I even wanted to try again.

I got a second wind when I realized I had another option apart from buying back FRLG and HGSS and replaying all four: get the majority of gen I and II pokemon from Pokémon colosseum and XD, which luckily were among the games that were spared. This didn’t solve the mythical Pokémon problem, but it was a lot cheaper and more appetizing than playing the same games again (I only had to buy a gamecube/gba cable). Of course it did mean a lot of time spent transferring Pokémon to RSE and breeding since you can’t really catch multiples of most Pokémon in colosseum/XD, but it was different enough from what I’d been doing before to be fresh and exciting, plus I’d never actually beaten those games before! I got to do something I thought I’d never care to do, get the Mount Battle Ho oh (can’t be nicknamed unfortunately), and catch Shadow Lugia as possibly the most badass instances of each of those Pokémon (imo).

Of course I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the Pokémon colosseum extra disc containing jirachi, as a rare opportunity to get jirachi outside of an event. That disc is expensive nowadays and I don’t own it, and iirc jirachi was already available by that time in Pokémon go, so I figured it was overkill to get the disc. More on that later.

There are of course several Pokémon found in FRLG that I could not obtain between Colosseum, XD, Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, but only one is exclusive to a single game…

So I did actually have to buy back Leaf Green, but I didn’t want to do a full play through twice to get both omanyte and kabuto, so I looked up how to speedrun it and did that for the first time ever. I won’t bore you with the details but it was casual as far as speedruns go, but I still completed the main story in only 16 hours, a record for me. In order to trade with RSE the game couldn’t stop at the credits so I had to do some of the sevii islands stuff, and that wasn’t too bad.

With gen I-III taken care of, it was time to start buying back games. I started with XY because I hadn’t replayed them the first time I completed their dex and hadn’t actually completed them since they came out, so it seemed like the most fun at the time. I wasn’t too enthused though because I didn’t find the games memorable, but to my surprise and delight they were actually really fun the second time around, perhaps in part due to my relatively new habit of planning teams ahead of time and sticking to pokemon I’ve never used before. I actually battled in set mode for once, and didn’t struggle too much. I’d still count them as the weakest in the core series outside SV perhaps which I haven’t played, but they’re fun enough that I actually have another play through planned just for fun soon. When it came time to play the opposite game for version exclusives, I lucked out: the copy of X I bought was already mostly complete, only one badge missing and with a (fairly balanced) team. One of them was even the fossil mon I hadn’t picked in Y, so I didn’t need to restart the game until it was time to get the third starter. I completed the game and got attached to the three Pokémon on that person’s team I hadn’t used before, a Slowbro named Meiklejohn, a Farfetch’d named Wilson, and an Aurorus named Hull, so they’ll be coming with me on my living dex quest, even though I already had a farfetch’d and slowbro.

But the real highlight of XY is of course…

The Vivillon Quest

As a kid I was never able to use GTS or anything because ds games required a WEP key to connect to wifi and my home wifi didn’t have that. I tried so many times to get it to work without understanding why it didn’t that I just assumed the 3ds wouldn’t connect either and so I never used online services with Pokémon except at friends’ houses. Anyway, at the time I was working on gen VI dex I was living in a rural area with no wifi or data, and the closest place to me with free wifi was a hotel a five minute drive away. So I drove to the parking lot of said hotel, tried connecting to their wifi, and lo and behold, not only did it work, but to that day (and this day as well) people are still on the gen VI GTS trading vivillons!

There are 20 patterns and each (aside from two event exclusives) are only obtainable in certain regions. It is possible to choose which region your 3ds is set to to a certain extent (limited by what overall region your 3ds is, IE JP, PAL, US, etc) but after that it’s one pattern per game. Manipulating this would be tedious and feel like cheating to me, plus I wouldn’t be able to get all the patterns this way anyway, so I caught ~30 scatterbug and evolved them into the not-at-all-uncommon High Plains pattern, then over the course of a week or two I drove to the hotel every night to scour the GTS for the patterns I needed.

Unfortunately most people putting their vivillons in GTS would specify which pattern they wanted in return and as I said, my native pattern is not uncommon. There’d be nothing stopping me from ignoring people’s requests and trading anyway, but I tried to respect their requests as id like others to respect mine (for the record, many, many people traded me their elegant patterns against my will, but whatever). In a few cases I did have to ignore those requests though as certain patterns were extremely rare and I was desperate lol.

A few I got off of the GTS, by trading with online passerby and frantically hovering over my vivillon box to try to communicate what I wanted, which was actually successful a few times. The last two (four) vivillon I got, sandstorm and I believe archipelago (as well as the two event patterns) i got due to tremendously lucky timing: I was playing close to international butterfly day (or something) and someone on reddit did/does a yearly vivillon giveaway on that day, taking requests for what patterns you need. Iirc they did do the 3ds region selection thing to get certain patterns which is not ideal but I feel like as long as they’re technically legitimate and I still had to trade for them, I’m satisfied with that. I did also accept a pokeball and fancy vivillon from them with the knowledge that they were cloned from legitimate event vivillon. Of course I’d rather have non-clones versions of those and I’m still not sure whether I’ll even transfer them upward, but it’s nice to have them anyway. I have no doubt that Pokémon go will eventually feature those two patterns and I won’t be able to transfer those back to USUM, so perhaps the clones can be my stand-ins.

The vivillon side quest may sound tedious but it was actually really fun and exciting, I loved interacting with what few (surprisingly many) people still cared about vivillon in 2021 when I did this, and it increased my appreciation tenfold for a Pokémon I never really cared for before. While it won’t be part of my living dex itself as it’s probably a clone, I even got a shiny savannah vivillon from one generous stranger! I’m thinking of using this in my next play through of X if I decide I want compound eyes for its ability.

Unfortunately for aspiring living dex collectors everywhere (or maybe just me), Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon each have an additional pokemon that is not available in the (story-wise) objectively superior games, Sun and Moon. Blacephalon and Stakataka. This is sad for me not just because I’d rather replay SUMO, but because I’d rather OWN SUMO. There’s no getting around it though (except maybe GTS, which ironically I didn’t think of) so I sucked it up and bought both of the “ultra” versions. I did have to play through to the post game of each to obtain the new ultra beasts, and I believe I spread these out between play throughs of other games to preserve my sanity.

A special little quirk of gen VII is that there is a lycanroc form that evolves from an event exclusive rockruff, BUT the evolution into this form is determined by rockruff’s ability. The nice thing about this is that people are wonderful and have bred many many more rockruffs with this ability and distribute them freely on GTS. This is actually an event pokemon I had myself back in the day, so it was a huge relief that people were so generous with their special rockruffs. In return, I bred a few extras of my own and sent them back out into the GTS wilds.

Another fun (real) little quirk of gen VII is the QR scanner. To this day, you can still obtain the mythical Pokémon Magearna by scanning the correct QR code, specific to your 3DS region! As well as, um, a partner cap pikachu, if you want it. Since my living dex is staying in USUM and I’m collecting all major form differences, I guess…I should include that…

Next up was gen IV, and I was a little bitter about having to play USUM instead of SUMO, so against my better judgment I bought platinum instead of Diamond or Pearl, even though BOTH Diamond and Pearl are necessary up to this point to get certain version exclusives. Joke’s on me; I had to replay all three anyway, at least up to the point that glameow and stunky became available. For this reason there was about a two year gap between my platinum and pearl playthroughs. I also played Diamond somewhere in the middle there; a friend of mine (hi Ryan) very generously gave me his copy of Diamond so I didn’t have to buy back that one.

At this point I had redone pretty much all of gen I, II, and IV, and luckily my gen III and V games were not stolen from me, so all that was left to have another complete natdex (aside from mythicals) was to play the poke transfer lab minigame to send ~490 Pokémon to Black 2. *strained smile* Fun!

Mythicals

Most mythical Pokémon can only be obtained through rare distribution events. Not being able to access Nintendo WFC as a kid, I missed most of these. However, for the 20th anniversary of the series, there was a lovely year-long string of distributions for every single mythical that existed at the time, straight into my copies of X and Y that would get stolen four years later *grumble grumble*

Luckily there are a few exceptions; mythicals that can be obtained in a core series game or a side game, at the time of their introduction or years later. Mew (my Pokémon ranch, pokeball plus), Celebi (crystal virtual console), jirachi (colosseum bonus disc), deoxys (ORAS), manaphy (pokemon ranger, BDSP, LA), darkrai (LA), Shaymin (LA), Arceus (LA), keldeo (SwSh), magearna (SUMO), etc. With the exception of magearna, all pokemon introduced after gen III are only currently available in games in gen VIII and above, meaning I won’t be able to have an actually for reals complete living dex in USUM with EVERY mythical without cheating or trading with someone very, very generous. To compensate, I’m allowing myself to just get whatever I can in USUM and other mythicals can be in SwSh with my gen VIII regional dex. Most mythicals are obtainable in Pokémon Go which I still actively play (pretty much exclusively for mythicals), and I do have every mythical that’s been released in Pogo in that game.

I’d like to have as many as possible in USUM though, so I did look into the above methods as well as some less salubrious methods. For mew, I mentioned above that you can get it in my Pokémon ranch (if you deposit 999 Pokémon in the game), but the Wii eshop has shut down, making it impossible to download ranch without homebrewing my Wii. Another option for mew that I thought was viable up until about a week ago is using the mew glitch in Pokémon blue virtual console and transferring it up through Pokémon bank. Seeing as it requires no external hardware and it is a very easy to perform glitch that I have done before, I would consider this mew legit. However, pokemon bank doesn’t, as it apparently checks both the OT and trainer id of any mew you attempt to transfer and will block it if it’s not correct. Soft-resetting for the correct trainer id is lower chances than soft resetting for a shiny and I don’t have the time for that. I don’t think I’d want to do it even if I did. There’s also glitches that can be used to change your trainer ID or the ID of a specific Pokémon, but that kind of manipulation does seem illegitimate to me and I’d rather not. So I’ll just live with my Pokémon Go mew.

Pokémon Ranger games can also send a manaphy egg — one per Pokémon ranger game, NOT one per save file — to a gen IV game. I already did that with my own copy (stolen) and the alternative is buying an unopened copy online. Again, I’m not trying to spend more money on this project than I need to, so I’ll just count the BDSP manaphy.

I also recently found out that some people have made an alternative to Nintendo WFC for Pokémon DS games, including online trading as well as running old event distributions. With a 3DS it is possible to connect DS games to wifi without a WEP key, so I checked that out and was able to get Keldeo, Meloetta, Genesect, Victini, and Darkrai. These Pokémon are pretty much indistinguishable from their original legitimate counterparts except for the fact that I know otherwise, so again I’m not sure if I’ll transfer these upwards. I do have all of those Pokémon in Pogo and SwSh through legitimate means, so they could be stand-ins, like with my clone vivillons. I’ll have to think about it.

The only mythicals I don’t have in any game are volcanion and marshadow, which I’m just now realizing as I fact check this post apparently had three SwSh distributions each that flew over my head. More than likely they’ll eventually be available in Pogo, so I’m not stressing too much over that one.

Vivillon Quest…2!

As mentioned before, I have no doubts that pokeball and fancy vivillon will eventually appear in Pokémon go since all 18 other patterns are now available in it, but I suspect they’ll only be available after every other pattern has been obtained. I know some people have already done that, but perhaps there will be a special research story or somesuch with acquiring forms as a task. Maybe the fancy form will even be released as part of the staggered release of gen IX pokemon, since fancy vivillon are the native pattern of Paldea regardless of your game’s region (no I will not buy SV just for vivillon).

In Pokémon Go you acquire scatterbugs by acquiring multiples of postcards from each pattern’s region. Because pogo gameplay is centered around tedium and repetition (erm, I mean cooperation and engagement) they decided that scatterbug would take 25 candy to evolve into spewpa, which takes 100 candy to evolve into vivillon. Those numbers are analogous to the 125 candies it takes to fully evolve any starter Pokémon, which are actually generally good in battle. As a comparison, caterpie, another early game worm Pokémon, takes a total of 62 candies to fully evolve into butterfree. For the unaware, the only ways to get scatterbug candy are 1) Catching more scatterbug* (three candies per, 6 if using pinap berry), 2) traveling with scatterbug as your buddy (1 candy per kilometer); and converting rare candies to scatterbug candies. In order to fully evolve a vivillon of every form, you need a grand total of 2250 candies (2500 if the event patterns are given to us as scatterbugs).

*Scatterbug is not found in the wild. Currently the only method of encountering it is through postcards obtained in gifts from friends, which you can only receive one gift from each friend per day, and you have to receive a minimum of 3 postcards from a region before encountering that region’s scatterbug. After those first three, successive scatterbugs for the same region require 9 postcards, then 15. Vivillon is not particularly strong. There is no reason for this except to force engagement. It’s not fun. After almost a year, I have only 504 scatterbug candies. I’ve decided to take a break from actively working on this, though I do passively collect more scatterbug candy from my buddy.

Anyway, I just found out 3DS online is being cut off in April (excluding pokemon bank) so I lost all interest in all of that and spent this last weekend scouring reddit for friend safari codes in XY. TO BE CONTINUED

#living dex #pokemon #I think the biggest hurdle to continuing rn is I want the shiny charm in both B2 and W2 #and trading everything to W2 just for that sounds like a drag. but I'll be so mad at myself later if I don't #anyway if the readmore doesn't work I'm so fucking sorry

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