Summary

• Completing every region's Pokedex is a major step towards tackling the national dex of more than 1,000 Pokemon in the series.
• Generation 4 introduces Wi-Fi connectivity for easier trading and includes unique ways to obtain all 151 Sinnoh region Pokemon.
• Scarlet and Violet offer an easy Pokedex completion with the help of Pokemon Home and DLC expansions, leading to an impressive 600 Pokemon total.

The first (and by far the most recognizable) tagline Pokemon ever had was "Gotta catch 'em all!" Nearly three decades after the release of the original Generation 1 titles, the goal to catch every single individual creature has ballooned in size, from 151 to more than 1,000 in all.

Similarly, the regions have expanded from the single Kanto Region to ten, including the Spain-inspired Paldea. While the national dex is the biggest prize to chase in a mainline Pokemon game, the first major step to completing the national dex is to complete the region's main Pokedex. Of the main regions, their regional dex completions feature their own challenges.

9 🎀 Generation 4 ▨

151 Total Pokemon

The immediate distinction to be made about Pokemon and its fourth generation is that this was the first generation to truly step into the world of Wi-Fi Connectivity. This made trading Pokemon infinitely easier to collect than in the past, as you could simply hop onto Wi-Fi, by way of the Global Trading System (GTS for short) and trade with anyone; the then-new two-slot functionality also ensured the ability to transfer your Generation 3 'Mons forward as well.

Diamond and Pearl's listing of 151 Pokemon in the main Sinnoh Dex includes the standard offering of trade evolutions, stone evolutions, and happiness evolutions. To eventually get the 151st Pokemon — Manaphy — registered into your Diamond and Pearl Pokedex, you need to have a copy of Pokemon Ranger on hand to be able to transfer the data for the egg over to your Generation 4 copy, and even though Platinum's Dex expanded to 210 Pokemon, it wasn't that much more difficult to tackle.

8 Generation 👍1

The Original 151 Pokemon

The games that started it all are highly simplistic by today's standards, but this simplicity also works for collecting the original roster of 151 Pokemon. These games also fostered a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:seemingly never-ending debate among many over whether the Generation 1 titles are truly the best in the series; nonetheless, the Pokedex is still an easy feat, thanks to the 🥂advancement of gaming systems.

With the recent Virtual Console versions of these titles, assembling all 151 creatures is straightforward. You need the three starters (four if you count Pikachu, Yellow's Mascot), then set off to acquire the remaining Pokemon before planning out which trades you would have to do to get the rest; plus, you have the option to do 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Mew glitch.

7 Generat🔯ion 2

100 Pokemon, Plus The Original 151

Much as it was in Generation 1, Generation 2's dex completion has also been made easier with advancements in gaming systems and the power of connectivity. The longest games in the series by badge count, and ambitious for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:several other reasons, these games also in🅺cite debate over whether the Pokemon series was at its best with its 🍌earlier titles.

To acquire the rarest Pokemon in Generation 2, Celebi, Crystal's Virtual Console version offers the key; to acquire the GS Ball, which had never seen a Western release in event form, simply beat the Elite Four first. Heading to the Ilex Forest after speaking to a man in Goldenrod's Center will bring Celebi to you, and catching it will help you finish the Generation 2 Pokedex, and you can send it forward to future games.

6 💙 🔯 Generation 9

400 Pokemon, 200 DLC Pokemon

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Scarlet & Violet didn't get off to the best start after its launch; but now, the games have seen a pair of DLC inflate the 400 Pokemon regional dex to a grand total of 600. However, this dex completion is one of the easiest in the series for a straightforward reason.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Home has made recent Pokedex completions far and away easie🍷r; by linking up with the now (sadly) defunct Pokemon Bank, Home is now the place to send alꦅl of your Pokemon from generations of the past into Generations 8 and 9. There have been YouTube videos of people completing the Pokedex for these titles in under one day.

5 Generation 8 🐭

400 Pokemon, Plus DLC

Generation 8 attracted plenty of controversy, as the 'Dexit' controversy originated here. Not helping matters in the slightest bit was a trove of other problems, especially related to the animations and several past moves being removed so, for the Pokedex that Sword & Shield does assemble, it is as easy as Generation 9 to have Home functionality.

The games' cover legendaries stand above the rest in terms of their difficulty to capture, since the first time you meet them at the very start of the journey, you are scripted to lose. After the end of the main story, you must complete the quests presented by Sordward and Shieldbert, but the catch here is you must first take down the opposite version's Cover Legendary before claiming your own; after doing this, you will then have to perform the normal trades to get the other.

4 💜 Gen๊eration 7

302 Pokemon

The first Generation 7 titles, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Sun & Moon, had 302 Pokemon in the Pok♈ede❀x, and while every other Pokemon from past Generations could be captured and brought forward to these titles, they did not have Pokedex numbers. The Pokedex in these entries was easy to accomplish, but certain unusual quirks ruled over obtaining methods.

For instance, if you were to capture a Magnemite, which can be done early in the story, you would think that it can evolve on Akala Island at its Power Pl🌺ant, right? Wrong, because for Sun ꧒& Moon, the only way to evolve magnetism-based evolutions was in the Vast Poni Canyon, so the second entries in Generation 7 fixed these issues.

3 ♓ Generation 5

300 Pokemon (Black And White 2)

The fifth generation of games remains a fan favorite after a decidedly tepid response during their initial lifetimes; this also remains the only generation of games that saw full-on sequels released in the same generation, a feat that has yet to be replicated. The original Generation 5 games, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Black & White, had 156 creatures, but Black & White 2 expanded its Pokedex to return old favorites into the mix while also expanding o🐠ut the story.

As the final titles in the DS Generation, Black & White 2 offer PokeTransfer (much like Black & White). Here, you can complete the process that, in execution, could begin from Generation 3 titles and pass them through Generation 4's Pal Park, to land them in Generation 5, but of course, with Pokemon Bank and Pokemon Transporter, this does not have to be your favorite 'Mon's final stop in the transfer process.

2 🌟 🅰 Generation 6

454 Pokemon

Pokemon entered the 3D era with X and Y, and even though these titles were not held in completely warm regard by the fanbase, the lingering question remained of what happened to the expected 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Z. While that question 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:will be answered in 2025, 2013's first foray into the Kalos Region has a staggering Pokedex to complete.

454 Pokemon are in the Kalos Pokedex, and a rather small number of these were wholly new creatures created for the games; while transferring your older Pokemon remains an option, as Pokemon Bank rose to prominence in this Generation, the methods for obtaining some of these Pokemon make X and Y's Pokedex one of the more difficult feats. The strangest of these is evolving the Psychic-Dark type Inkay into Malamar, as you can only evolve it at Level 30...while holding your console upside down.

1 Gꦚeneration 3

210 Pokemon

Generation 3 is comprises Pokemon Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald, and the Dex completion in those games remains the most difficult of the main series to this day. Generation 3 has yet to see a move to Switch Virtual Console, for instance, which hampers your ability to trade and acquire the Pokemon you need to complete Generation 3's Pokedex.

Generation 3 also featured both the Altering Cave and several E-Reader-related 🅰events, both of which cannot be accessed today unless you pay a🌺 sizable fee to acquire these from collectors. Or, that is, unless you find other methods to obtain them or change the Pokemon rotation in Altering Cave.