Welcome to the HYPE THREAD, a place to share your excitement about in-game achievements, brag about success, and get hyped for upcoming events. CAPS LOCK IS OPTIONAL IF IT HELPS YOU GET YOUR HYPE ON!
This is a chance to post about your successes. Our rules against self-promotion and most low-quality content, including shiny Pokemon pics, are relaxed in these threads–please talk all you like about your luck and accomplishments!
This thread is meant to be pretty positive, so please think twice before downvoting someone! Rude and negative comments will be removed — please report them if you see them 😀
This thread is also the place to earn /r/pokemon's prestige flair for completing various aspects of the games. To claim your flair, post proof of your accomplishment in the comments below. Please note that flairs are assigned once weekly, so it may take up to seven days for your flair to appear.
On mobile and the reddit redesign ("new reddit"), you may have up to 10 flairs at once. On old reddit, you can only display one flair—so if you care which that is, please specify that in your comment!
Flair is currently available for:
Paldea Prestige Flairs
- Rotom Phone: Post a screenshot of your completed Paldea dex
- Animated Rotom Phones: Post an album of your completed Paldea living dex
- Booster Energy: Post a screenshot of all obtainable Paradox Pokémon
- Uva/Naranja Crest: Post a screenshot proving you finished all classes in the academy
- Tera Orb: Post an album proving you obtained one species in every Tera type
- Tiny Bamboo Shoot: Post a screenshot of the NPC saying you obtained the smallest size of a species possible*
- Big Bamboo Shoot: Post a screenshot of the NPC saying you obtained the largest size of a species possible*
* The NPC Pokemon size checker is in Mesagoza! See here
Galar Prestige Flairs
- Catching Charm: Post a screenshot of your completed Galar Regional Dex.
- Curry Mark: Post a screenshot of your completed Curry Dex.
- Master Ball: Post a screenshot of your Master Ball Tier in Battle Tower.
- Berry Sweet: Post a screenshot of your completed Alcremie form collection. `(Minus Ribbon and Star)
- Star Sweet: Post a screenshot of your completed Alcremie form collection with Ribbon and Star sweets.
- Gigantamax Factor: Post an album of your collection of all 31 G-Max mon (excluding form variations). Be sure to show the summary screens indicating that they are G-Maxable!
- Armorite: Post a screenshot of you in the Masterly Mustard Tee after winning every type of Restricted Sparring on the Isle of Armor.
- Dynite: Post an album of your collection of all 47 Dynamax Adventure bosses. Be sure to show the summary screens indicating that they were caught in Galar!
Alola Prestige Flairs
- Rotom Dex: Post a screenshot of your completed Alola Regional Dex.
- Tapu Bulu: Post a screenshot of your Level 100+ Festival Plaza.
- Tapu Fini: Post a screenshot of your 50+ streak in the Battle Tree.
- Tapu Lele: Post a screenshot of all five of your Poké Pelago islands at max level (level 3).
General Prestige Flairs
- Oval Charm: Post an album of your completed Living Dex. (Mythicals aren't necessary!)
- (Shiny Charm: Post 45+ self-caught or self-bred shinies to /r/ShinyPokemon.)
LET'S GET HYPED!!!!
by PokeUpdateBot
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After years of being a Masuda method hater, I got my very first Masuda shiny in Scarlet – [Sprigatito](https://imgur.com/a/iRSW0dc)! Egg number 42. I’ll be hatching Fuecoco and Quaxly next, and hoping I’ll have just as great luck.
After 1 year of hyperfixation, I have almost finished my “Origin Dex”.
With some caveats – I’ve started from the DS era so used ORAS for Gen 3. Luckily had my old 3DS with Yellow & Crystal, Transporter, Bank & Dream Radar on, and bought a used 2DS on eBay that had Gold downloaded. If you trade a Gen 2 Ekans to Yellow via the Time Capsule, it’s registered on Home as coming from Kanto. So I had to do that for a few Gen 1 pokes that aren’t available in Yellow but are in Crystal & Gold. I let myself off as none of these Pokemon were difficult to find, and I wasn’t prepared to drop more money on a used 3ds with the other Gen 1 games on Virtual Console.
It means all the Gen 1 and Gen 2 Pokemon have the retro symbol on Home! (barring Mew, who I had to transfer from Let’s Go – luckily, a family member had the game and still had their save file with Mew!).
I used the WiFi servers to pick up a lot of the Gen 4 & 5 event only Pokemon. And other less savoury means to get the handful of Gen 6/7 event only Pokemon. Don’t feel particularly good about it but I’m not going to trade any of these Pokemon on, and hopefully Legends Z-A will give me opportunity to acquire the Gen 6 mythicals legitimately.
The only Pokemon I’m now missing is Zarude. Not sure I’ll get them unless another raid event rolls around.
This challenge has really reignited my love for the franchise and I got to experience Gens 7, 8 & 9 for the first time, and really got to fall in love with Gen 3 (I’ve played ORAS four times to get one of each Deoxys form!), it has never clicked with me before but Hoenn is a top 3 region for me now. And finally completed a childhood dream – caught em all! (well, within reason…)