Lyra is hilarious because on one hand Lyra seems to know pokemon on a data level better than anybody but on a gameplay level Lyra has no clue how to battle.
Gyarados is based on a myth about carp who were strong enough to not only swim upriver, but jump over the dragon gate. Passing that test granted them ability to fly, and those flying carp were dragons. Which is to say: They didn't "turn into dragons" and that let them fly, Chinese "dragons" are the carp version of Superman. They're fish that fly first, and "dragons" second.
sure, but if jirachi can outspeed it can probably one or two shot combusken w/ confusion, whereas the rival having marshtomp would have a similar problem
@@CR1MSONACE Besides Grovyle (and even then, at least it would have no coverage against Jirachi, and much easier to manage with the other mons available before compared to the other two starters) ofc, the game becomes incredible easy and a matter of just clicking the damage moves. Having done a gen 3 living dex myself, I'm honestly confused as to why he even bothered playing through the game instead of trading Treecko and Jirachi immediately after getting the Pokedex. Not only grinding becomes much easier to evolve the mons, you can also trade them back overlvled right after and they'd still obey the og savefile and continu the game with the overlvled starter.
"avoids a very nasty safari zone hunt" yeah that's an understatement. I found a shiny chansey full odds in the safari zone and watched it run away before I was able to catch a plain chansey at all
...generation 3 is definitely going to be your worst hurdle. Starting from generation 4 onwards, they actively try to make sure you have some form of breathing room, and by gen 5, you don't even need to touch a spinoff
The fact you traded over Pokémon from LG to Emerald, rather than cutting that process down (at a hefty price with Pokémon Box) shows how dedicated you are.
Considering he was willing to hack the mystery gift tickets into the game, he could have easily used Pokemon Box for free to save massive amounts of trading time
@@andreaverone9377 There are technically other ways to get them, via hacked event distribution roms, though I suppose that's not much different than using action replay
When they were talking about how long it took to catch trade fodder I was confused about them not just using box, to the point that I went and double checked if it actually works with emerald. I'd understand if the goal was to completely avoid using unofficial methods (emulation) but they used the celebi and jirachi bonus disks, and with their prices it's fair to assume that those were done with emulation.
@@th3bear01 yeah I've got a pico board in my GameCube. I'm not paying those kinds of prices for Colosseum, XD, and Box. But I still want to use them and play them so...
I recently did the full Hoenn dex but there was one slight issue. I only own Sapphire and Emerald. In Hoenn 135 pokemon were introduced and if you only own Sapphire and Emerald you can only catch 134... The missing pokemon from either version is Zangoose. What i did to catch it was the Battle Tower glitch in sapphire and that was a unique nightmare
@@GGreenHeart I actually have a living dex (Up to gen 8, dont own 9) of every pokemon with the catch that they all have to be from their home games (Pikachu caught in Gen 1, Zangoose in Gen 3 etc)
You struggle with grass starters because you don't really get supporting pokemon to vary your team and when you do they're 10 levels lower than the foes Level is part ofthe damage calculation, so you take a lot more damage when lower leveled
To have a good team in Living Dex I recommend having a "main", "support" and an "HM mule". Your main is the Pokemon you want to evolve, supporters are any other high level Pokemon you have who will fight if your main faints, or if you're "switch grinding". That will keep your supporters leveled. Catch anything you don't have, but only evolve what you'll consider "main". Once they're evolved and they're leveled enough, they become "support" for your new main. I've been doing this on my Red playthrough and I'm having a surprisingly balanced team while Living Dexing.
@Dairunt1 hm mules are notably often less efficient to keep around then distributing your hms but a) the game aren't that tough, and b) this is much less convenient
I always forget Lyra isn't a native English speaker until he says something like "Relicanth" using a non-English vowel sound. If I'm not mistaken, it's a French-based language (or just French). Also, fantastic video as always. It's a great combination of suffering and excitement.
43:55 The concept of the food you eat being permanently stuck inside of you because you can't relieve yourself is kind of horrifying. I mean sure you don't *have* to eat in the pokemon universe but imagine having to second-guess if you *really* wanted that hamburger. On the other hand since food is tied directly to your contest stats that means if they could than it would possible for them to literally shit their brains out, which is an equally horrifying outcome. Maybe it's for the better that they have to hold it all in their entire lives.
9:00 the bonus disc can only send Jirachi to Ruby/Sapphire because it was released a year before Emerald. Personally, I would've chosen to fight the TV duo to grind for Levels, since they stay in the same place after 250 fights and for such a big grind its definetly worth flying around at first
@@hucklebucklinwell, the colo bonus disc was a promotion move to promote the jirachi movie releasing that year. would be weird for them to support the movie when its been out for like half a year
If you want a truly miserable experience, I suggest doing the equivalent in the Rescue Team Mystery Dungeon games. The original release, that is. That pair of games is full of questionable design that on a casual playthrough you can just ignore, but which becomes LEGO level of pain during a 100% run.
Actually, while Fire Red/Leaf Green have trade restrictions until postgame, there is a way around it. Both Kanto Remakes and Hoenn games can trade with the Orre games just fine, no postgame needed.
@@RayoMcQueen95990 Kanto remakes only have trade restrictions until postgame with the Hoenn games, they can trade with other Kanto remakes and the Orre games at any time, or so I hear (haven't actually tested it myself).
@@Elfos64 I tried it myself when I did my living dex a few years ago FRLG can trade between each other from square 1, however you can only trade Kanto Pokémon until you beat the Sevii Islands quest FRLG can connect to the Orre games, but the requirement is to beat the Sevii islands quest
Always loved that Lugia is Flying Psychic despite having a great water movepool, needing to be caught with surf and whirlpool in a water cave, and being the mirror to Ho-Oh
Design philosophy behind Dragon types in Gen 1&2: Dragon resists your starter's primary type. It does not matter which starter. It also resists Electric. (Electric is the earliest available Special type.) It is owned by the final member of the Elite 4, as a soft-check to hinder your starter and encourage catching something other than the earliest Pokémon available and/or have a mixed team. There is 1 Dragon available. Gen 2, exact same concept, except now the 8th Gym has the Dragon, and there's a new (significantly less powerful) Dragon on her team. And the final member of the Elite 4 is now the Champion/the Champion now has Dragons instead of a mixed team.) New set of gyms with #16 being a notable mixed team, followed by the not-so-secret mixed team boss on Mt.Silver
57:32 hey that's how my DSI broke...no joke it broke around the same time a meteor past over. They really didn't want me to beat Mario and Luigi Bowser's inside story
i'm so glad you didn't bitch about the brail puzzle, like it's something a kid would have seen irl and would have actually taught them that yes those weird bumps are actually a language
Awesome, a new vid! You really tried to do this as fairly as possible. I was a bit more liberal with restrictions (e.g. used distributions, turbo speed, etc.). This allowed me to catch up with you and even get well ahead without as much hassle, the need to play Colosseum as long, or XD at all. I think I started replaying from Gen I around the time you were doing Gen II, but I had finished my Gen I-III Living Dexes by the end of Jan 2024. Then I started Gen IV and finished the Living Dex there in May. P.S. Easiest way to mass trade is using Box. That's how I moved 150+ Pokemon without trade fodder, which was nice since trading in mGBA is hit and miss. I found trading on MelonDS a lot quicker and more enjoyable. Anyway, tanks for making these vids. They introduced me to the concept of a Living Dex and are the reason I went for this challenge. It's been fun. :) EDIT: So you used distributions too, ended up getting two Ho-oh and Lugia, haha. I just got them from the islands in Emerald and FRLG myself.
I couldn't help but laugh in confusion when your Earthquake missed against Gyarados xD Edit: Bravo on all the hard work to get through this! I love Gen 3 a lot, but not enough to struggle with Colosseum and Gale of Darkness lol
Colosseum can be a slog, but XD has so much QoL in it that it's actually cool. I always try to snag 6/6 during the Greevil battle because it's a challenge that isn't too tall of an order.
I caught them all in gen 3 with you! Took quite a long time. All legit captures except for a few exploits, like getting the Old Sea Map and Mystic Ticket using the bad egg glitch. I feel like the 14 year old version of myself would think it was so cool that I have them all now, and I feel somehow completed.
As some who also did a Hoenn living dex (but just went for complete national dex in gen 3 cause idk if I could do that) I understand this pain far too well. I'm glad you were able to do it. I only discovered this channel because of the first Gen 3 video and now here you are. Congrats dude!
I found your channel when you were finishing the Gen 1 Living Dex and watching you grow have been so fun to watch! You managed to bring a brand new air to my lifelong love for Pokemon, so congratulations on finishing Gen 3 Living Dex now!! Can't wait to see if Gen 4 treats you better to help on your journey
i think you're the only youtuber I've got notifications turned on for, and I'm so glad because i wouldn't want to miss a single thing! There is no end to the road that is Pokemon, and hopefully no end to the road of you making videos!! good luck on the next living dex! cant wait to watch the vid and hopefully catch some streams c:
There are two options to Gen 4: Option 1: Timegated transfers of 6 mons per day. The new Sinnoh mons are pretty straightforward. Option 2: Engage with all 4 games and fill out the dex from scratch. Aside from some weirdness with the Regis and some tryharding for the gen 1 and 3 starters in HGSS, it's perfectly doable.
Not that you need the help anymore, but there's a glitch with the reporter duo that causes them to stay on route 11 after beating them 255 times. Probably an overflow error, and I don't think you'd even need to beat them that many times to begin with, but it's there.
Lyra, if you fancy an extra side-quest, you could catch the other three Deoxys forms: base (Ruby/Sapphire), attack (Fire Red) and defense (Leaf Green). Emerald’s speed form.
I still have my Diamond safe file where I have a complete Pokédex. I also used Emerald a lot, plus I traded with my cousin back then to achieve this incredible feat. Good times.
Finally. Been waiting on this for quite sometime. Glad you're done. Late edit: You're going for Yellow Living Dex? Does that mean you have to... reset it 4 times? Both stages of both fossils, one of each eeveelution and all 3 stages of starters? What else is there?
Here in germany it's even more difficult as you don't got that bonus disc for Jirachi. There were events were they give the Jirachi to you. For maybe 1 or 2 days in three towns and no parent drove you their just for a freaking pokemon
I use your videos as a guidepost as well as a motivator. I also have your videos as an inspiration to the fact that my LOSERdex challenge is doable. You are essentially doing both the L and the O portions of it! Finally enough the day that you uploaded this, I was just starting my gen 3 portion as well. I'm going to start working on breeding all of the shinies that I haven't gotten so far in this generation as well.
@@knuckelz8923 it's a challenge that I made up that was inspired by Lyra here. It incorporates several already existing dex challenges but adds a ribbon master and origin challenge to it, meaning every Pokemon must be caught in their original debut generation/region. L - Living O - Origin S - Shiny (so a living shiny dex) E - Evil (Having all the Shadow Pokemon from Colosseum and XD) R - Ribbon
@@knuckelz8923 thank you very much! And it's definitely something that is ridiculously challenging but I think of it this way. Once this is complete, I can worry only about transferring up to the new games without having to restart the entire collection again and again. I'm even doing minimal, glitching or exploits to get those non-legal stuff. I think really the only exploit I need to worry about now is the DNS stuff in gens four and up to get those event mons again Justice for Spike-chu though
careful about the "E" part. apparently, shininess is based on a Pokémon's personality value and OT ID in combination. iirc OT IDs change after you snag a Shadow Pokémon, so you can't know if something will be shiny until after you capture it. a Pokémon that's shiny in battle can revert after being caught
I just finished watching your three living pokedex challenges. I gotta admit that watching you made me want to play Pokemon again after years of not touching them XD Love your videos and I hope you continue making them.
Gabby and Ty- the tv people in emerald stop moving after the 255th battle... exp rates jump significantly afterwards, only having to cycle up to the next route and return to re-battle
57:30 Theoretically the only way to do this fully legit today is to track down someone who attended the events back in the day AND has photographic and video proof of it, and either trade or buy the cartridge. Not that I'm doing that...heheheheheheh(I've found one of the two)
Another option for farming exp in emerald is on dewford island. Only 1 guy can be refought, he’s got 2 gyrados, sharpedo, and tentacruel when you get to his 4th+ fights. Gives the most exp the fastest. After you fight him, you gotta travel 250 steps and then fight him again. Use a bike and go up and down in the middle of dewford 15-18 times. Very fast and easy method
Props to you man, congrats on getting the Living Pokedex on Generation 3 Just happens to watch the ending live on stream Can't wait for more of this to do
Great job on this challenge! It's been fun keeping up with it since the beginning. I still think the first two gens have the best rewards for completing the Pokedex. Getting a real Gameboy Printer and printing out that diploma in Yellow for the first time after all that grueling work collecting all the Pokemon on real hardware made it all worth it.
As someone who did the yellow Pokedex I implore you, for your sanity use this team for the story: Venusaur Charizard Blastoise Pikachu/Jolteon Gengar Clefable Having the starters will save you a lot of grinding and ensure you won't need hm mules. When catching a wild pokemon have Venusaur use leech seed, Pikachu/Jolteon use thunder wave and Gengar as you wall. Also teach one of your pokemon pay day via the tm.
1 big thing you missed was zigzagoon (and other pokemon with the ability pickup), they can pick up rare candies(and other items) after a battle as long as they are in your party
Commenting just to say I have a lot of respect for you to have done a living dex. You definitely did make some of it harder for yourself in some ways, but well, I did too for my 3 living dexes. Et gg pour le site web, c'était cool de voir une option en français mdr.
Congratulations on completing another Living Dex! Your videos definitely inspired me to embark on my own. I finished Red a couple years ago, and I'm closing in on completing Gold. Hopefully you'll master type match ups and leveling a battle-worthy team by the time you take on Gen 4! ;)
It’s been a while, so I’m like “I know it was a struggle to ‘catch ‘em all’ in the previous generations, but I don’t really remember why. Sure it takes a while but is it really that difficult?” We’re making a living Pokédex “Oh. Yeah. That’s harder”
I hope you plan to do this for the other Gens too. I did a Gen 6 all obtainable living dex and using the Battle Mansion in Kalos made the grinding SO much easier. Especially if you reach the title of Grand Duke and can dual wield double money and super high level Pokemon.
You had so many opportunities to get a stone Pokémon like Geodude before Flannery on every Gen 3 game, to make her a complete joke. You're making it a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
been waiting this for so long, your dedication and crazyness is truly admirable, it was a pleasure being here to witness all this, brasil loves you lyra
Clarification: Wingull (Water/Flying) and either Lotad (if playing Sapphire or Emerald) or Surskit (if playing Ruby or Sapphire) are available as early as Pokeballs, with Marill being right behind them as early as the Wally introduction and finally you can get Goldeen and Magikarp as early as Dewford (Old Rod) which means Gyarados and Seaking are available before Flannery.
In regards to Pokemon being diffucult to obtain gen 4 is worse and more frustrating, but from gen 5 onward pokedex completion becomes good like in the gen 1 days
You know, I did something similar. I am working on my (non-shiny) Living Dex at the moment too :D I started with FireRed and Ruby like you and played and caught all Pokémon I could get there and traded them up through all Gens I own up until I could transfer them to Home (From Ruby to FireRed, from FireRed to SoulSilver, from SoulSilver to Diamond, from Diamond to White 2, from White 2 to Y, from Y to Moon, from Moon to UltraSun and from UltraSun to Bank and from Bank to Home). I also own Sword, Legends Arceus and Violet, so all new Pokémon from there went straight to Home. I am currently 96.2% done (1039 caught, 41 to go). What's special about my Living Dex is, that I also did catch them all myself, always with a Trainer with the same name, so OT is the same (at least name wise, number wise ofc not) AND they are ALL caught in a normal Pokéball because that was important to me. So every Legendary I could catch ingame is in a normal Pokéball as well. Which was in the 3rd gen extremely annoying because multiple times the legendary would defeat itself with struggle because it ran out of PP for all its move rather than staying in the ball (even with bein on 1hp and sleeping/ being paralized) The only Pokémon that are not in a normal Pokéball are the ones I got through distribution and they are sadly in the jubilee ball. But I will replace them as soon as the opportunity appears to catch them myself in normal ball :D I am super proud as it was hard work, but now that I am coming to the end it gets harder and harder, because the majority of the Pokémon that I am still missing are mystical ones that I can't get ingame :( (and the new Paradox ones, because I was dumb and missed the time-limited Raid event)
This was a fun watch and all, though the beginning where you struggle with grass starters is just.. so painful. I know others have commented it, but you really need to train your mons and build a team around them. Watching you repeatedly throw yourself at the Torkoal with underleveled mons and then the grovyle was just hard to watch, especially when you complain and blame the type
Dude, loved seeing FF14 because i've been playing it since ARR and am also currently going for the full fishing log challenge, im still on ARR though but damn, some of them are total nightmares, i just want Feast of Famine done.
After fighting Gabby and Ty enough times they become stuck on Route 111 and you can just run out of the area real fast and go back and fight them, it becomes a LOT faster.
Jesus christ this comment section is full of obnoxious know-it-alls criticizing every single step of this play through. I thought it was a cool journey man congrats on getting through it all, I did this myself a few years back and it's definitely a massive, time consuming undertaking. Don't let the freaks get you down, looking forward to gen 4 haha.
Lyraaaa!!! I'm so proud of you for doing this monstrous challenge!! Well done, my man. And now you're doing yellow, a childhood first for me!! I can't wait to hear your thought on it
...The Pokemon Company was founded in 1998. It wasn't because of Gen 3, it was an extended part of Nintendo and Gamefreak's response to the Porygon Shock.
Lyra is the real world Ash Ketchum: super passionate, but no idea how to battle Pokemon. You're not a speed runner and neither am I, but stop and train your team a little. Get six Pokemon of different types and give them a mix of type attack moves. You're pretty much set.
![The (silly) story of Pokémon Emerald - Gen 3 Living Dex [1]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/qkcSx9t0kcE/mqdefault.jpg)
I apologize for the small editing error at 54:56 which lead to double Lyra hullabaloo. Nobody deserves double Lyra hullabaloo.
the voices are back
you have achieved mitosis! nicely done
Did you catch any shinies?
The fact that it happened right at the flashback section made me think it was an odd, but intentional stylistic choice xD
awesome job! im also trying to complete the hoenn dex, but i keep postponing it bcs i know what awaits me 😅
Lyra, I respect your dedication and love for Pokemon, but it still boggles my mind how you tried to Earthquake a Gyarados
He what?!?
1:33 😢
Bahahaa xD
No way he didn’t know Gyarados typing, right?
But it’s a water/dragon type
Lyra is hilarious because on one hand Lyra seems to know pokemon on a data level better than anybody but on a gameplay level Lyra has no clue how to battle.
How does someone, who after completing two living dexes and still thinks Gyarados is a Dragon Type, know "Pokémon on a data level better than anyone"?
Mechanic-level would be a more apt description.
The real life Ash Ketchum.
@@BlueHazeBurnout93game data, not trivia
@@TheRealMycanthrope Well, he also had no idea how Pokéblock stats work, sooo … idk.
"I think I forgot something."
"If you forgot, then it wasn't important."
"Yeah, you're right."
**cut to Scizor waiting out in the rain**
Win-win. Less fire weakness
Poor Scizor
I love Scizor too! The design is so rad!
@@Qbe_Root my ferrothorn wants to join the Scizor in the rain
Gyarados is based on a myth about carp who were strong enough to not only swim upriver, but jump over the dragon gate. Passing that test granted them ability to fly, and those flying carp were dragons.
Which is to say: They didn't "turn into dragons" and that let them fly, Chinese "dragons" are the carp version of Superman. They're fish that fly first, and "dragons" second.
10:24 "Not even a mythical Pokemon can save us from the ordeal that is the second rival fight" that's because Jirachi is half Combusken's level
Or you coulda paired it with starters who arent weak to fire lololol
sure, but if jirachi can outspeed it can probably one or two shot combusken w/ confusion, whereas the rival having marshtomp would have a similar problem
And weak to fire, but still
"man i wonder why im losing against this combusken so much"
>uses a pokemon 10 levels under combusken
*>Only has two other pokemon*
*>One being the starter weak to it*
*>The other a HM mule still in single-digit levels*
To be fair, low level legendaries are exp sink, they're a pain to train.
All that when he could've just picked Mudkip
@@charnalk5572 They still need to get all the starters. And if they picked Mudkip the rival would have Grovyle.
@@CR1MSONACE Besides Grovyle (and even then, at least it would have no coverage against Jirachi, and much easier to manage with the other mons available before compared to the other two starters) ofc, the game becomes incredible easy and a matter of just clicking the damage moves.
Having done a gen 3 living dex myself, I'm honestly confused as to why he even bothered playing through the game instead of trading Treecko and Jirachi immediately after getting the Pokedex.
Not only grinding becomes much easier to evolve the mons, you can also trade them back overlvled right after and they'd still obey the og savefile and continu the game with the overlvled starter.
"avoids a very nasty safari zone hunt" yeah that's an understatement. I found a shiny chansey full odds in the safari zone and watched it run away before I was able to catch a plain chansey at all
...generation 3 is definitely going to be your worst hurdle.
Starting from generation 4 onwards, they actively try to make sure you have some form of breathing room, and by gen 5, you don't even need to touch a spinoff
Unless you count the Therian forms
Munchlax
And funnily enough, Pikachu. Pikachu in Gen 5 (and the other Pokemon in the family) is event or dream world only.
Yeah but Dream Radar makes the genies way easier
@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan isn't that still a spinoff tho??
Yk ur a dedicated poketuber when you forget Gyarados is a flying type and still tell your audience
1:10:50 Game Designer: "You really must love Pokemon!"
Me: "Somewhat, I suppose."
Good to see some people got the reference :)
I don't get the reference, but it was funny nonetheless
@@ZuoKalp It's from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.
The fact you traded over Pokémon from LG to Emerald, rather than cutting that process down (at a hefty price with Pokémon Box) shows how dedicated you are.
Considering he was willing to hack the mystery gift tickets into the game, he could have easily used Pokemon Box for free to save massive amounts of trading time
@@kryzethx There's no other way to get those anymore, it's N's fault really, not his.
@@andreaverone9377 There are technically other ways to get them, via hacked event distribution roms, though I suppose that's not much different than using action replay
When they were talking about how long it took to catch trade fodder I was confused about them not just using box, to the point that I went and double checked if it actually works with emerald. I'd understand if the goal was to completely avoid using unofficial methods (emulation) but they used the celebi and jirachi bonus disks, and with their prices it's fair to assume that those were done with emulation.
@@th3bear01 yeah I've got a pico board in my GameCube. I'm not paying those kinds of prices for Colosseum, XD, and Box. But I still want to use them and play them so...
you struggle with grass type starters because you don't bother to catch anything to cover their weaknesses. Literally use a geodude and you're set.
Or just use a better starter. No shit
@@Clooger-he needs to use them all so that really doesn’t help
Grass = weak.
@@Clooger-Equivalent to "don't do what you like"
@@Clooger- You don't exactly comprehend the entire point here, do you?
13:54 Sceptile managing to use Leaf Blade after getting Attracted on by Torkoal has "begone thot" vibes
begone hot
"Begone thot! We got Johnny combos to grind!"
So birch reaction to you completing the national dex is like "cool,anyway."
I recently did the full Hoenn dex but there was one slight issue. I only own Sapphire and Emerald. In Hoenn 135 pokemon were introduced and if you only own Sapphire and Emerald you can only catch 134...
The missing pokemon from either version is Zangoose.
What i did to catch it was the Battle Tower glitch in sapphire and that was a unique nightmare
Oooo that's a really cool workaround though! Congrats on the achievement!! 🎉
@@GGreenHeart I actually have a living dex (Up to gen 8, dont own 9) of every pokemon with the catch that they all have to be from their home games (Pikachu caught in Gen 1, Zangoose in Gen 3 etc)
ACE would’ve been good too
You struggle with grass starters because you don't really get supporting pokemon to vary your team and when you do they're 10 levels lower than the foes
Level is part ofthe damage calculation, so you take a lot more damage when lower leveled
Yeah, damage and toughness are both quadratic with level, cuz of hp, defense, attack and level.
Seems harsh to include level in the calculation when it already includes stats which depend on level.
To have a good team in Living Dex I recommend having a "main", "support" and an "HM mule".
Your main is the Pokemon you want to evolve, supporters are any other high level Pokemon you have who will fight if your main faints, or if you're "switch grinding". That will keep your supporters leveled.
Catch anything you don't have, but only evolve what you'll consider "main". Once they're evolved and they're leveled enough, they become "support" for your new main. I've been doing this on my Red playthrough and I'm having a surprisingly balanced team while Living Dexing.
@Dairunt1 hm mules are notably often less efficient to keep around then distributing your hms but a) the game aren't that tough, and b) this is much less convenient
I always forget Lyra isn't a native English speaker until he says something like "Relicanth" using a non-English vowel sound. If I'm not mistaken, it's a French-based language (or just French).
Also, fantastic video as always. It's a great combination of suffering and excitement.
43:55 The concept of the food you eat being permanently stuck inside of you because you can't relieve yourself is kind of horrifying.
I mean sure you don't *have* to eat in the pokemon universe but imagine having to second-guess if you *really* wanted that hamburger.
On the other hand since food is tied directly to your contest stats that means if they could than it would possible for them to literally shit their brains out, which is an equally horrifying outcome. Maybe it's for the better that they have to hold it all in their entire lives.
9:00 the bonus disc can only send Jirachi to Ruby/Sapphire because it was released a year before Emerald. Personally, I would've chosen to fight the TV duo to grind for Levels, since they stay in the same place after 250 fights and for such a big grind its definetly worth flying around at first
Colosseum itself works just fine with emerald though
Yeah but gamefreak could have easily made it compatable. They literally put the RS berry glitch fix in FRLG
@@hucklebucklinwell, the colo bonus disc was a promotion move to promote the jirachi movie releasing that year. would be weird for them to support the movie when its been out for like half a year
Its 256 not 250
Makes no sense that they can not program Emerald to receive Jirachi. You're flat out wrong.
If you want a truly miserable experience, I suggest doing the equivalent in the Rescue Team Mystery Dungeon games. The original release, that is. That pair of games is full of questionable design that on a casual playthrough you can just ignore, but which becomes LEGO level of pain during a 100% run.
There is no end to the road that is Pokemon
I can totally see this becoming a tagline
how does bro do two full living dexes and think Gyarados is dragon type ?
12:20 "Love cant bloom on the battlefield, its not true" metal gear reference!!!
Actually, while Fire Red/Leaf Green have trade restrictions until postgame, there is a way around it. Both Kanto Remakes and Hoenn games can trade with the Orre games just fine, no postgame needed.
FRLG must complete sevil island to trade with colosseum and xd while the hoenn games must beat the elite four to trade with xd
No, FRLG do need the post game completed, in Emerald you have to beat the elite 4, however in Ruby and Sapphire you can trade anytime with 0 issues
@@RayoMcQueen95990 emerald must beat e4 to trade with xd but not with colosseum
@@RayoMcQueen95990 Kanto remakes only have trade restrictions until postgame with the Hoenn games, they can trade with other Kanto remakes and the Orre games at any time, or so I hear (haven't actually tested it myself).
@@Elfos64 I tried it myself when I did my living dex a few years ago
FRLG can trade between each other from square 1, however you can only trade Kanto Pokémon until you beat the Sevii Islands quest
FRLG can connect to the Orre games, but the requirement is to beat the Sevii islands quest
48:08: When Lyra finally remembered our boy Scizor!
Even Aquareon Lyra forgets that Guarados is water flying.
I do too. Every. Damn. Time.
i dont think i have ever mistaken it for being dragon because I simply remember that it dies when it smells an electric move
Always loved that Lugia is Flying Psychic despite having a great water movepool, needing to be caught with surf and whirlpool in a water cave, and being the mirror to Ho-Oh
How
Design philosophy behind Dragon types in Gen 1&2:
Dragon resists your starter's primary type. It does not matter which starter. It also resists Electric. (Electric is the earliest available Special type.)
It is owned by the final member of the Elite 4, as a soft-check to hinder your starter and encourage catching something other than the earliest Pokémon available and/or have a mixed team.
There is 1 Dragon available.
Gen 2, exact same concept, except now the 8th Gym has the Dragon, and there's a new (significantly less powerful) Dragon on her team. And the final member of the Elite 4 is now the Champion/the Champion now has Dragons instead of a mixed team.)
New set of gyms with #16 being a notable mixed team, followed by the not-so-secret mixed team boss on Mt.Silver
Actually, the interviewer trainers bug out after you defeat them enough, so you can just sit there and fight them over and over again.
57:32 hey that's how my DSI broke...no joke it broke around the same time a meteor past over. They really didn't want me to beat Mario and Luigi Bowser's inside story
No way bro used earthquake on a gyarados, thought he was water/dragon. Bruh
i'm so glad you didn't bitch about the brail puzzle, like it's something a kid would have seen irl and would have actually taught them that yes those weird bumps are actually a language
Awesome, a new vid! You really tried to do this as fairly as possible. I was a bit more liberal with restrictions (e.g. used distributions, turbo speed, etc.). This allowed me to catch up with you and even get well ahead without as much hassle, the need to play Colosseum as long, or XD at all. I think I started replaying from Gen I around the time you were doing Gen II, but I had finished my Gen I-III Living Dexes by the end of Jan 2024. Then I started Gen IV and finished the Living Dex there in May.
P.S. Easiest way to mass trade is using Box. That's how I moved 150+ Pokemon without trade fodder, which was nice since trading in mGBA is hit and miss. I found trading on MelonDS a lot quicker and more enjoyable.
Anyway, tanks for making these vids. They introduced me to the concept of a Living Dex and are the reason I went for this challenge. It's been fun. :)
EDIT: So you used distributions too, ended up getting two Ho-oh and Lugia, haha. I just got them from the islands in Emerald and FRLG myself.
I couldn't help but laugh in confusion when your Earthquake missed against Gyarados xD
Edit: Bravo on all the hard work to get through this! I love Gen 3 a lot, but not enough to struggle with Colosseum and Gale of Darkness lol
Flying types be immune to earthquake
Colosseum can be a slog, but XD has so much QoL in it that it's actually cool. I always try to snag 6/6 during the Greevil battle because it's a challenge that isn't too tall of an order.
@@excalibur493 gale of darkness is my first Pokémon game lol
@@spice4life.64 My first game was Ruby, but XD was my second! Great times were had.
@@excalibur493 I wouldn't say great times I only started playing Pokémon this year lol
I caught them all in gen 3 with you! Took quite a long time. All legit captures except for a few exploits, like getting the Old Sea Map and Mystic Ticket using the bad egg glitch. I feel like the 14 year old version of myself would think it was so cool that I have them all now, and I feel somehow completed.
THAT'S MY GUY WHO MADE A WEBSITE!
As some who also did a Hoenn living dex (but just went for complete national dex in gen 3 cause idk if I could do that) I understand this pain far too well. I'm glad you were able to do it. I only discovered this channel because of the first Gen 3 video and now here you are. Congrats dude!
I found your channel when you were finishing the Gen 1 Living Dex and watching you grow have been so fun to watch! You managed to bring a brand new air to my lifelong love for Pokemon, so congratulations on finishing Gen 3 Living Dex now!! Can't wait to see if Gen 4 treats you better to help on your journey
i think you're the only youtuber I've got notifications turned on for, and I'm so glad because i wouldn't want to miss a single thing! There is no end to the road that is Pokemon, and hopefully no end to the road of you making videos!! good luck on the next living dex! cant wait to watch the vid and hopefully catch some streams c:
There are two options to Gen 4:
Option 1: Timegated transfers of 6 mons per day. The new Sinnoh mons are pretty straightforward.
Option 2: Engage with all 4 games and fill out the dex from scratch. Aside from some weirdness with the Regis and some tryharding for the gen 1 and 3 starters in HGSS, it's perfectly doable.
It sure was a long journey. It was an honor having been here since gen 1 :)
Not that you need the help anymore, but there's a glitch with the reporter duo that causes them to stay on route 11 after beating them 255 times. Probably an overflow error, and I don't think you'd even need to beat them that many times to begin with, but it's there.
Lyra, if you fancy an extra side-quest, you could catch the other three Deoxys forms: base (Ruby/Sapphire), attack (Fire Red) and defense (Leaf Green). Emerald’s speed form.
I still have my Diamond safe file where I have a complete Pokédex. I also used Emerald a lot, plus I traded with my cousin back then to achieve this incredible feat. Good times.
Lyra.... you have played Gen 1 and Gen 2, if not so many more games
HOW DID YOU FORGET THAT GYRADAOS IS PART FLYING???????
"Never one to hold a grudge"
Says the one who KOed Ho-oh and Lugia
Imagine playing EVERY prior game in the series and not realizing until EMERALD that Gyarados is a Water/Flying type lmfao.
Great, now I have to make popcorn.
Pokemon. A game that makes you work for using their full list of mons before dlc became big.
Yeah when working for it worked. DLC sucks especially when it's time restrained.
And now doesn’t even let you pay or play for the privilege of using all the mons! lol
@@jevonp also moves removed. Guess hidden power is now truly hidden
Well yeah, they immediately dropped the "Gotta catch 'em all" really quick in only 2 generations.
@@blameitondanny And then they wonder why modders out there are plentiful and do better then they do.
been following the journey since the beginning. seeing an update vid always brightens my day :)
Poor Scizor, lost and forgotten to time in Lyra's world.
Scizor just can't catch a break, can it?
Finally. Been waiting on this for quite sometime. Glad you're done.
Late edit: You're going for Yellow Living Dex? Does that mean you have to... reset it 4 times? Both stages of both fossils, one of each eeveelution and all 3 stages of starters? What else is there?
Here in germany it's even more difficult as you don't got that bonus disc for Jirachi. There were events were they give the Jirachi to you. For maybe 1 or 2 days in three towns and no parent drove you their just for a freaking pokemon
I use your videos as a guidepost as well as a motivator. I also have your videos as an inspiration to the fact that my LOSERdex challenge is doable. You are essentially doing both the L and the O portions of it! Finally enough the day that you uploaded this, I was just starting my gen 3 portion as well. I'm going to start working on breeding all of the shinies that I haven't gotten so far in this generation as well.
what is a LOSERdex?
@@knuckelz8923 it's a challenge that I made up that was inspired by Lyra here. It incorporates several already existing dex challenges but adds a ribbon master and origin challenge to it, meaning every Pokemon must be caught in their original debut generation/region.
L - Living
O - Origin
S - Shiny (so a living shiny dex)
E - Evil (Having all the Shadow Pokemon from Colosseum and XD)
R - Ribbon
@reddevilgaming2577 that sounds so impossibly hard, good luck!
@@knuckelz8923 thank you very much! And it's definitely something that is ridiculously challenging but I think of it this way. Once this is complete, I can worry only about transferring up to the new games without having to restart the entire collection again and again. I'm even doing minimal, glitching or exploits to get those non-legal stuff. I think really the only exploit I need to worry about now is the DNS stuff in gens four and up to get those event mons again
Justice for Spike-chu though
careful about the "E" part. apparently, shininess is based on a Pokémon's personality value and OT ID in combination.
iirc OT IDs change after you snag a Shadow Pokémon, so you can't know if something will be shiny until after you capture it. a Pokémon that's shiny in battle can revert after being caught
I just finished watching your three living pokedex challenges. I gotta admit that watching you made me want to play Pokemon again after years of not touching them XD
Love your videos and I hope you continue making them.
"Isn't it a Water/Dragon?"
Me: "It's a Water/Flying, giving you a dragon type at level 20 would be so busted in Gen 1"
LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO THE END OF GEN 3, BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER LMAOO
Gabby and Ty- the tv people in emerald stop moving after the 255th battle... exp rates jump significantly afterwards, only having to cycle up to the next route and return to re-battle
“How come I have trouble with grass starters? 😭” - deliberately uses them against Pokemon they’re weak against
Ooo a fellow fishing in video games fanatic
Wow, just been watching your back catalogue to catch up, and here you are ☺️
I'm glad you didn't have to beat Emerald 3 times to get the Jhoto starters. That and the Legendary Beasts are the real virtues of Colesseum.
When you think you're in a safe space then suddenly the Big Fish attack. I should have learned not to trust the other lalafell by now
57:30 Theoretically the only way to do this fully legit today is to track down someone who attended the events back in the day AND has photographic and video proof of it, and either trade or buy the cartridge.
Not that I'm doing that...heheheheheheh(I've found one of the two)
I love how you completed three living dexes across three generations, yet still couldn't remember Gyarados' correct typing.
Erm was there a reason that the GameCube ‘game’ “Pokémon Box” wasn’t used to transfer all the Pokémon up to Emerald?
The reason is probably that it costs a pretty penny.
"I made a website tracking down how to do it"
>literally rolls all over the floor 😂
Now you have to give all the Pokémon all the ribbons, Birch is right it ain't over yet.
Another option for farming exp in emerald is on dewford island. Only 1 guy can be refought, he’s got 2 gyrados, sharpedo, and tentacruel when you get to his 4th+ fights. Gives the most exp the fastest. After you fight him, you gotta travel 250 steps and then fight him again. Use a bike and go up and down in the middle of dewford 15-18 times. Very fast and easy method
Props to you man, congrats on getting the Living Pokedex on Generation 3
Just happens to watch the ending live on stream
Can't wait for more of this to do
Great job on this challenge! It's been fun keeping up with it since the beginning. I still think the first two gens have the best rewards for completing the Pokedex. Getting a real Gameboy Printer and printing out that diploma in Yellow for the first time after all that grueling work collecting all the Pokemon on real hardware made it all worth it.
Bro brought a lvl 15 jirachi to a level 28 torkoal fight
Is it evil to point out Pokemon Box for the Gamecube exists?
Either way, congratulations! And what an insane ride!
As someone who did the yellow Pokedex I implore you, for your sanity use this team for the story:
Venusaur
Charizard
Blastoise
Pikachu/Jolteon
Gengar
Clefable
Having the starters will save you a lot of grinding and ensure you won't need hm mules.
When catching a wild pokemon have Venusaur use leech seed, Pikachu/Jolteon use thunder wave and Gengar as you wall.
Also teach one of your pokemon pay day via the tm.
Congratulations on the Gen III Livingdex! It is one of the grandest feats in the whole series. Emerald is my all-time favorite Pokemon game too.
1 big thing you missed was zigzagoon (and other pokemon with the ability pickup), they can pick up rare candies(and other items) after a battle as long as they are in your party
Congratulations, I did this like a year or 2 ago and just finished generation 4, I’m doing gen 5 next wish me luck
imagine not knowing gyarados is flying type
that hurts my soul
Commenting just to say I have a lot of respect for you to have done a living dex. You definitely did make some of it harder for yourself in some ways, but well, I did too for my 3 living dexes.
Et gg pour le site web, c'était cool de voir une option en français mdr.
Congratulations on completing another Living Dex! Your videos definitely inspired me to embark on my own. I finished Red a couple years ago, and I'm closing in on completing Gold.
Hopefully you'll master type match ups and leveling a battle-worthy team by the time you take on Gen 4! ;)
Not even five minutes in and i get a satisfied chuckle about the unhinged decision to make Gyarados a flying type.
It’s been a while, so I’m like “I know it was a struggle to ‘catch ‘em all’ in the previous generations, but I don’t really remember why. Sure it takes a while but is it really that difficult?”
We’re making a living Pokédex
“Oh. Yeah. That’s harder”
i did not expect that ffxiv clip XD gotta love it when a content creator i know randomly show ffxiv stuff cause im always like FFXIV MENTIONED
I hope you plan to do this for the other Gens too.
I did a Gen 6 all obtainable living dex and using the Battle Mansion in Kalos made the grinding SO much easier. Especially if you reach the title of Grand Duke and can dual wield double money and super high level Pokemon.
You had so many opportunities to get a stone Pokémon like Geodude before Flannery on every Gen 3 game, to make her a complete joke. You're making it a lot more difficult than it needs to be.
been waiting this for so long, your dedication and crazyness is truly admirable, it was a pleasure being here to witness all this, brasil loves you lyra
Clarification: Wingull (Water/Flying) and either Lotad (if playing Sapphire or Emerald) or Surskit (if playing Ruby or Sapphire) are available as early as Pokeballs, with Marill being right behind them as early as the Wally introduction and finally you can get Goldeen and Magikarp as early as Dewford (Old Rod) which means Gyarados and Seaking are available before Flannery.
“Pokémon in this game don’t poop”-Lyra 2024 😂😂
In regards to Pokemon being diffucult to obtain gen 4 is worse and more frustrating, but from gen 5 onward pokedex completion becomes good like in the gen 1 days
You know, I did something similar. I am working on my (non-shiny) Living Dex at the moment too :D
I started with FireRed and Ruby like you and played and caught all Pokémon I could get there and traded them up through all Gens I own up until I could transfer them to Home (From Ruby to FireRed, from FireRed to SoulSilver, from SoulSilver to Diamond, from Diamond to White 2, from White 2 to Y, from Y to Moon, from Moon to UltraSun and from UltraSun to Bank and from Bank to Home). I also own Sword, Legends Arceus and Violet, so all new Pokémon from there went straight to Home.
I am currently 96.2% done (1039 caught, 41 to go). What's special about my Living Dex is, that I also did catch them all myself, always with a Trainer with the same name, so OT is the same (at least name wise, number wise ofc not) AND they are ALL caught in a normal Pokéball because that was important to me. So every Legendary I could catch ingame is in a normal Pokéball as well. Which was in the 3rd gen extremely annoying because multiple times the legendary would defeat itself with struggle because it ran out of PP for all its move rather than staying in the ball (even with bein on 1hp and sleeping/ being paralized)
The only Pokémon that are not in a normal Pokéball are the ones I got through distribution and they are sadly in the jubilee ball. But I will replace them as soon as the opportunity appears to catch them myself in normal ball :D
I am super proud as it was hard work, but now that I am coming to the end it gets harder and harder, because the majority of the Pokémon that I am still missing are mystical ones that I can't get ingame :( (and the new Paradox ones, because I was dumb and missed the time-limited Raid event)
This was a fun watch and all, though the beginning where you struggle with grass starters is just.. so painful. I know others have commented it, but you really need to train your mons and build a team around them. Watching you repeatedly throw yourself at the Torkoal with underleveled mons and then the grovyle was just hard to watch, especially when you complain and blame the type
Dude, loved seeing FF14 because i've been playing it since ARR and am also currently going for the full fishing log challenge, im still on ARR though but damn, some of them are total nightmares, i just want Feast of Famine done.
I have been excited to see this video come out for ages. Well done amazing story, and a wonderful adventure. Thank you for your wonderful video!
After fighting Gabby and Ty enough times they become stuck on Route 111 and you can just run out of the area real fast and go back and fight them, it becomes a LOT faster.
Jesus christ this comment section is full of obnoxious know-it-alls criticizing every single step of this play through. I thought it was a cool journey man congrats on getting through it all, I did this myself a few years back and it's definitely a massive, time consuming undertaking. Don't let the freaks get you down, looking forward to gen 4 haha.
Lyraaaa!!! I'm so proud of you for doing this monstrous challenge!! Well done, my man. And now you're doing yellow, a childhood first for me!! I can't wait to hear your thought on it
"Your money evolved into dragonite! Sounds about right" lmao so true! 😂
That one Beedrill run was great! The entire narration was made of rhymes, that is amazing!
...The Pokemon Company was founded in 1998. It wasn't because of Gen 3, it was an extended part of Nintendo and Gamefreak's response to the Porygon Shock.
Lyra is the real world Ash Ketchum: super passionate, but no idea how to battle Pokemon.
You're not a speed runner and neither am I, but stop and train your team a little. Get six Pokemon of different types and give them a mix of type attack moves. You're pretty much set.
Lyra, why did you evolve Dragonair when you could catch a Dragonite in XD Gale of Darkness?