Welcome!

You've stumbled upon my Pokemon shrine! Here is where I put everything Pokemon... There is a lot because I have had a big hyperfixation on this series for atleast a decade. Ever since I was young I loved Pokemon, starting with the original anime. I only got into the games around XY (I was obsessed with letsplays of the games, and wanted to play them) but only got to play a game when Sun and Moon dropped. Unless you count Pokemon Brick Bronze I guess haha (Any other Brick Bronze enjoyers out there?) Nowadays I've played most recent games, all 3DS games, some of the DS era games (Black and Soul Silver) and I have tried some of the older games, but I still need to get around to committing to those. If you show me a picture of a Pokemon, I can name every single one (except some gen 8 + 9 mons). Also a fan of the Pokemon adventures manga, I'm up to the end of the Gold, Silver and Crystal arc.

So I'm sure you're wondering what will be on this shrine aside from ramblings. Well, yes there will be a lot of me writing out my thoughts on each game, anime and manga... But I'll also be adding in some extra cool stuff I'm passionate about, especially shiny hunting. Across each game page, I will be including shiny hunting guides if anyone wants tips on hunting in each game! There will also be a page dedicated to shiny hunting in general because it is my favorite part of the games!!!

If you notice any incorrect information on my pages, I promise it was unintentional as is a mistake. Feel free to contact me and let me know, I'll correct it ASAP! Otherwise I hope you enjoy exploring this page :)

Favorites

Design Inspiration

My shrines design and layout was heavily inspired by the red Pokegear theme in Soul Silver. I really like the theme, gold and red are one of my favorite colour combos!

The golden borders across the page were inspired by the borders around boxes and buttons on the Pokegear. Golden text at the top of the page was based on the clock above the golden Pokeball. Lastly, the background is very clearly based on the top screens background with the stripe and golden Pokeball in the center.

Initially I tried to theme the style more around the gen 4 battle UI, but it didn't turn out looking how I wanted, so I scrapped it.

I tried to make the battle text box the border for the content of the page, and I tried to make the top buttons the same shape as the UI containing the HP bar and Pokemon name. It ended up clashing and didn't look nice.

Kanto

Kanto is probably the most iconic Pokemon region ever, being where the series first picks up in Red and Blue (or Red and Green). There are several games that take place in Kanto, Red and Blue/Green, Yellow, Fire Red and Leaf Green, Pokemon Let's Go Eevee and Pikachu, games set in Johto also feature this region those being Gold and Silver, Crystal and lastly Heart Gold and Soul Silver.

Honestly despite it being so iconic, I haven't gotten into the games from this region much. I did get Pokemon Red on 3DS but didn't play much since I was only exploring for a project. I do want to play Fire Red and Leaf Green though, pretty sure I played a few ROM hacks with those games as the base and I thought they were super cool. I've had a hard time getting my hands on a copy though, so for now I will be holding off on playing those. Let's Go Eevee I played through a tiny bit, but never finished and it was years ago so I barely remember it. I really should go finish it tho haha

Overall I'm pretty neutral to Kanto. Obviously it's a pretty overrated region, but that doesn't bother me too much. I do love the creepypasta's that came with it (Lavender Town and ESPECIALLY Buried Alive scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.) and the glitch Pokemon like Missing No are cool even though they're unintentional!

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Favorite Team

Games I own (Click an owned game to see specifics about the playthrough!)

Red Playthrough

I started playing Red through the 3DS port of the game back in 2024 when I was doing research for a presentation on the old Pokemon games. Because of that, it was a very unserious playthrough that lasted maybe an hour. I do plan to come back and finish the game, but for now it's been abandoned.

Since there's nothing interesting about the playthrough to talk about, I'll talk a bit about my teams names since a few are references~ My Squirtle was named "Leo" after Leonardo from TMNT since he's my favorite of the group! My Ratatta is named Jerma Rat because I'm uncreative and wanted to reference Jerma that particular day. Lastly, my Caterpie's name is Kitty, named after Yellow from Pokemon Adventures Caterpie with the same name.

My Team

Let's Go Eevee Playthrough

I forgor :( I'll check the save file sometime to add the team, but I fr do not remember anything about when I played asjdljkasd

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My Team

Favorite Pokemon

Favorite Characters

LAPRAS

A lot of my "favorite" gen 1 Pokemon aren't really any of my favorite Pokemon, but are just the ones out of the original 151 Pokemon. Lapras is a gen 1 mon I Gravitate towards because of its design. I love that it carries people on its back, riding on a Pokemons back has always been a thing I wanted to do as a kid. I also might like Lapras because I used one in my Soul Silver playthrough :D

KANGASKAN

I'm ngl I'm just a big fan of its mega evolution... So powerful... I do enjoy the theory that it is the mother of Cubone though, that's some neat design storytelling!

BILL

Ok this is awkward but all of my favorite gen 1 characters are characters I like because of the manga... so if you want to read my thoughts on them, check the manga section :) Bill created the Pokemon storage system on the PC and in the games manages to briefly turn himself into a Pokemon by mistake.

RED

Also a favorite because of the manga, but I will say game Red and manga Red are two very different characters... One is mute and more serious, while the other is very loud and outgoing.

Johto

Johto is the second Pokemon region, first appearing in Pokemon Gold and Silver which released in 1999. Your starter options are Cyndaquil, Chikorita (my favorite gen 2 starter!) and Totodile. Kanto and Johto are actually connected, Kanto can be accessed after you defeat the champion. Generation 2 introduced 100 new Pokemon which brought the overall count to 251. With generation 2, very important mechanics to Pokemon as a franchise were established such as breeding, dark and steel type Pokemon, Pokemon genders, a day/night cycle, baby Pokemon, friendship, held items and shiny Pokemon (my favorite mechanic!!).

My experience with Johto is pretty limited. I do own the Crystal port on 3ds, but I haven't touched it yet because I want to finish the Red game I own first. However, I am very far through my Soul Silver playthrough and I have to say it's one of my favorite Pokemon games ever. I still need to beat the 8th gym, but I'm actively playing right now so this will be outdated soon. Since I played most DS/3DS era games before being a shiny hunter, I decided my Soul Silver team needed some shiny Pokemon, as you can see my team has all 3 Golden Rod game corner shinies! So much Voltorb flip... I do wish I'd done a shiny hunt for my starter since I've heard that's a fun hunt, oh well. Once I reach Kanto I will be hunting for the other game corner shinies as well!

Although I'd say Soul Silver is one of my favorite games, I have similar feelings towards Johto as a region as I do towards Kanto. Johto is very similar to Kanto, this is because it was a follow up to one of the most iconic video games of all time, so I don't blame Gamefreak for playing it safe and reusing team rocket and not changing stuff too drastically. Basically I'm pretty neutral to Johto, but maybe my opinion will change when I complete the post-game.

Favorite Team
(Soul Silver)

Games I own

Soul Silver Playthrough

One of my favorite save files! Started in 2022, but I took a long break so I'm still working on beating it. I did a lot of shiny hunting whike still doing the main story, so there's a few shiny Pokemon on the team.

I love Soul Silver because of a lot of things. There's a lot of features I enjoy such as shiny hunting, Pokemon following you in the overworld, animated sprites, decent difficulty compared to modern games (no EXP share, but this can sometimes suck because grinding...) and more! It does suck a lot of Pokemon are locked until I reach Kanto though, I remember wanting a Ryhorn but I looked it up and found out I couldn't get one until after the elite 4 sadkalsdlkjasjlk

My Team

Shiny Collection

Crimson

Caught 23/12/2023

4945 Encounters

12h 14m

Soft Reset

My first game corner shiny. I used a soft-resetting method to keep buying sandshrews from the game corner! Crimson is a Pokemon I use frequently on my Soul Silver team, she's super useful!

Grey

Caught 01/01/2024

3055 Encounters

9h 53m

Soft Reset

Second game corner shiny! Grey was useful for defeating Petrels team of explosion Weezing and Koffing, I kept losing that fight until I got Grey to sweep them. Also a useful member I still use on my team.

Minty

Caught 09/04/2024

4300 Encounters

10h 48m

Soft Reset

Third game corner shiny (they're the only good shiny method aside from the starters so there's a lot of these)! I love Minty, though I prefer Dratini's pink over Dragonite's green. A Pokemon I use on my main team :)

Crystal Playthrough

Not started yet, I just own the game

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My Team

Favorite Pokemon

Favorite Characters

SCIZOR

For some reason I like a lot of bug type Pokemon, Scizor is one I think is pretty cool! I love its design and nice, red palette. Also helps that it has a cool mega!

FLAAFFY

Flaaffy wasn't originally one of my favorites, but it grew on me after I caught a Mareep in a BW randomized Soul Link nuzlocke I did with 2 other friends. I accidentally nicknamed it "Mareep" so my Flaaffy kept that name. I'm fond of it because Flaaffy carried me pretty hard. It did eventually evolve, but it died almost immediately after... RIP Mareep :(

BUGSY

Despite reading the Gold and Silver manga, I never really got a favorite character from them (I was too attached to the Red and Blue manga cast) but I like Bugsy's design and bug type Pokemon are cool so he is cool by proxy >:)

Hoenn

The third region following Johto released in 2002 with the games Ruby and Sapphire. Gamefreak tried to change up the status quo a bit by seperating it from Johto and Kanto, and gave the player 2 new evil teams to stop! You choose between Treecko, Torchic and Mudkip (one of my favorite starter trios) as your starters. This generation introduced 135 new Pokemon, bringing the total to 386. Abilities were also introduced in this generation along with natures and double battles.

I have a lot of nostalgia for this generation, not because I played the original Ruby, Sapphire or Emerald though, but because one of my first Pokemon games was one of the remakes, Alpha Sapphire. I know that might sound silly if you're an older fan hearing that... "You're nostalgic for a game that came out in 2014?" Yup, that's the truth, time sure flies... I really love ORAS, some of my favorite Pokemon games, but I've never played the original trilogy. Yet another group of games I need to get to sometime, probably after I play the previous generations.

I have a super positive opinion on this generation. I like how it deviated a little from Kanto and Johto by having different evil teams! I love Team Rocket, but if they were in every game I think I would get sick of them. Also love the legendary trio for this game, Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza are amazing Pokemon. Only issue I have with the region is the usual complaint, too much water!! But with some repels it's not too bad hehe