I caught all 386 Gen 3 Pokémon... Help...

[@Lyra]

I apologize for the small editing error at 54:56 which lead to double Lyra hullabaloo. Nobody deserves double Lyra hullabaloo.

[@HaydenTheHistorian]

the voices are back

[@NorthstarSystem]

you have achieved mitosis! nicely done

[@dawnsbuneary]

Did you catch any shinies?

[@zuthalsoraniz6764]

The fact that it happened right at the flashback section made me think it was an odd, but intentional stylistic choice xD

[@ElekktrOde]

awesome job! im also trying to complete the hoenn dex, but i keep postponing it bcs i know what awaits me 😅

[@bluie639]

Lyra, I respect your dedication and love for Pokemon, but it still boggles my mind how you tried to Earthquake a Gyarados

[@Clooger-]

He what?!?

[@toekn33]

1:33 😢

[@FigbyTheWolf]

Bahahaa xD

[@berenerchamion4998]

No way he didn’t know Gyarados typing, right?

[@Che1ito]

But it’s a water/dragon type

[@smallmollusk]

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.

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

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"?

[@mama_krama]

Mechanic-level would be a more apt description.

[@dirrdevil]

The real life Ash Ketchum.

[@TheRealMycanthrope]

​@@BlueHazeBurnout93game data, not trivia

[@BlueHazeBurnout93]

@@TheRealMycanthrope Well, he also had no idea how Pokéblock stats work, sooo … idk.

[@Qbe_Root]

"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**

[@therealmichirukaiou]

Win-win. Less fire weakness

[@EeveeianartTheSpiddler]

Poor Scizor

[@Lyra]

I love Scizor too! The design is so rad!

[@yoshiwoollyworld]

@@Qbe_Root my ferrothorn wants to join the Scizor in the rain

[@hauntedsocks7346]

@@yoshiwoollyworldFERROTHORN ISNT IN THIS GAME >:(

[@Goos3rs]

"man i wonder why im losing against this combusken so much" >uses a pokemon 10 levels under combusken

[@CR1MSONACE]

*>Only has two other pokemon* *>One being the starter weak to it* *>The other a HM mule still in single-digit levels*

[@SpiritofLibegon]

To be fair, low level legendaries are exp sink, they're a pain to train.

[@charnalk5572]

All that when he could've just picked Mudkip

[@CR1MSONACE]

@@charnalk5572 They still need to get all the starters. And if they picked Mudkip the rival would have Grovyle.

[@charnalk5572]

@@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.

[@ltjgambrose]

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.

[@CinnamonKilljoy]

This! In my head, some Pokémon, like Gyarados, have "non-mechanic types." So they have it in concept/spirit but not enough for a "corporeal" type. Coincidentally why I'm like the one person in the world who thinks the rosters of Bruno, Agatha, and Lance in gen 1 make perfect sense.

[@cadencenavigator958]

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

[@RyuichiShinomori]

Or you coulda paired it with starters who arent weak to fire lololol

[@cadencenavigator958]

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

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

And weak to fire, but still

[@deltaquarayza]

Terra/Marine Cave are how roaming legendaries should have always been. Their location changes, but once you find them, you can catch them uninterrupted.

[@glitchwarrior7270]

Congratulations, Lyra! *You finished the hard part!* Gen 3 is *notorious* for having a near-impossible Pokedex. Good job.

[@Lyra]

Thank you!

[@excalibur493]

Fun fact: there was an oddity with the bridge on Feebas' river, so with ORAS, they made the underside of it a guaranteed spawn for Feebas.

[@omegahaxors9-11]

ORAS was the fun uncle of the franchise. Easily the game that cared the least about making you put in a bunch of meaningless work and honestly a trend I wish would have continued going forward. It was painful watching the franchise regress back into its usual formula after ORAS proved that you don't have to pad the game out with busywork in order for it to be enjoyable. Only one who realized that maybe everyone using cheat devices in competitive was the result of atrocious game design.

[@rocketterrier]

​@@omegahaxors9-11I never got into the competitive scene but I remember just seeing other's talk over and over about how broken it was. At least Super Training was fun

[@TaIathar]

There was a video recently that went into more detail about this and it's not guaranteed. It's guaranteed WITH A CONDITION. The condition is: If any of your Feebas' 'tile locations' are under the bridge. If the condition is met, then all tiles under the bridge will be able to spawn Feebas. I'd love to link you the video, but KZbin auto-deletes any comment with a link nowadays.

[@excalibur493]

@@TaIathar Ohhh, I see. I did not know that! Uhh... was it Grossier? I'm not sure if I got the name right.

[@TaIathar]

@@excalibur493 Goppier, yes.

[@mddowlin]

"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

[@UtubeWatchu]

13:54 Sceptile managing to use Leaf Blade after getting Attracted on by Torkoal has "begone thot" vibes

[@DavidJCobb]

begone hot

[@MeatbagSlayer]

"Begone thot! We got Johnny combos to grind!"

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

...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

[@pyrojack8230]

Unless you count the Therian forms

[@ianweston310]

Munchlax

[@ImpureDiamond]

And funnily enough, Pikachu. Pikachu in Gen 5 (and the other Pokemon in the family) is event or dream world only.

[@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan]

Yeah but Dream Radar makes the genies way easier

[@analteredone9485]

​@Mimiyan_or_Pikapikafan isn't that still a spinoff tho??

[@eightteentwo]

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.

[@Disguised_Cat]

HOW MANY TIMES HAVE YOU PLAYED THIS AND NOT REMEMBERED GYARADOS' TYPING?!

[@LLachs283]

Comment bait for the algorithm

[@gtc1554]

Yk ur a dedicated poketuber when you forget Gyarados is a flying type and still tell your audience

[@justinr.507]

So birch reaction to you completing the national dex is like "cool,anyway."

[@Wizzkidwas]

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

[@tsawy6]

Yeah, damage and toughness are both quadratic with level, cuz of hp, defense, attack and level.

[@renakunisaki]

Seems harsh to include level in the calculation when it already includes stats which depend on level.

[@Dairunt1]

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.

[@tsawy6]

@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

[@omegahaxors9-11]

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.

[@KamonXV]

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]

Oooo that's a really cool workaround though! Congrats on the achievement!! 🎉

[@KamonXV]

@@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)

[@Gojira-ri6rj]

ACE would’ve been good too

[@TWitWoW]

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.

[@Clooger-]

Or just use a better starter. No shit

[@TrueKDG]

@@Clooger-he needs to use them all so that really doesn’t help

[@zephaniahgreenwell8151]

Grass = weak.

[@genarftheunfuni5227]

​@@Clooger-Equivalent to "don't do what you like"

[@Ender41948]

@@Clooger- You don't exactly comprehend the entire point here, do you?

[@MaxRavenclaw]

1:10:50 Game Designer: "You really must love Pokemon!" Me: "Somewhat, I suppose."

[@MaxRavenclaw]

Good to see some people got the reference :)

[@ZuoKalp]

I don't get the reference, but it was funny nonetheless

[@MaxRavenclaw]

@@ZuoKalp It's from Frieren: Beyond Journey's End.

[@MysticalHeart]

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.

[@kryzethx]

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]

@@kryzethx There's no other way to get those anymore, it's N's fault really, not his.

[@kryzethx]

@@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

[@th3bear01]

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.

[@minuscaseus]

​@@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...

[@azazel166]

Don't tap out now, not when you have 4 more generations to fill up. And by 4, I mean the remaining ones where you can "catch 'em all" from Bulbasaur to God, Genesect, Volcanion and Zeraora.

[@VCV95]

Dammit! Zeraora is the other mythical I ain't got. Marshadow, Magearna, and Zeraora are the only ones I lack.

[@PokemonRangerGrant]

​@@VCV95 does the QR code for Magearna not work anymore?

[@VCV95]

@@PokemonRangerGrant i don't have a way to use it, I believe.

[@PokemonRangerGrant]

@VCV95 beat the league in any Gen 7 game (definriely USUM, I think this is also true for the originals), then use the QR scanner on a QR code you can find online - there is one for Japan, Europe, and North America. Then, pick up Magearna from the guy in the Pokemon Centre and save straight away.

[@Twiddle_things]

​@@PokemonRangerGrant last time I checked, it does. I don't think that the servers shutting down should affect whether or not it works, but I could be mistaken.

[@Dukstless]

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.

[@ConsarnitTokkori]

hmm today i will attempt to recruit pidgey

[@Bisaa]

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

[@xDoomSquirrelx]

Colosseum itself works just fine with emerald though

[@hucklebucklin]

Yeah but gamefreak could have easily made it compatable. They literally put the RS berry glitch fix in FRLG

[@Bisaa]

@@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

[@Dolamieu]

Its 256 not 250

[@dirrdevil]

Makes no sense that they can not program Emerald to receive Jirachi. You're flat out wrong.

[@500werewolf]

I know this is very "Um AcTuAlLy", but hopefully it helps explain your issues with Torkoal. You had issues with Torkoal because your grass starter was the only Pokemon even close to the same or above level. The level of the Pokemon and its stats (which are also determined by its level) are both used in damage calculation. They "pretty much" (level gets reduced in the calculation) multiply together and then get divided by the opponents defense. Your Jirachi and Numel's were all 10'ish levels bellow Torkoal thus you did significantly less damage to Torkoal due to its high defense, and you took significantly more damage from Torkoal due to being very under leveled.

[@xeladas]

The issue was less the absolute difference, and more the relative difference, Pokemon stats grow linearly with level, so when Lyra was fighting Pokémon twice the Jirachi's level those Pokemons' stats were about twice that of the Jirachi, so were doing about double the damage they normally would (while if Jirachi attacked it'd be doing half damage)

[@tabbygale5430]

Also like... of course sceptile struggles with fire. type matchups are the core mechanic of pokemon, and "fire beats grass" is probably the first one most trainers learn. lyra says "we don't have access" to all those water types but there are several. Wingull and lotad before gym 1, tentacool and gyarados in dewford-- not to mention geodude!

[@VCV95]

If I remember correctly, some games have wonky damage scaling with over/under levels, but I may be wrong.

[@DrTimes99]

@@tabbygale5430 Thank you! I'm screaming at my screen that Wingull is available as early as route 103. Lotad isn't in Ruby.

[@oniondesu9633]

also numel is just not a good counter. i'd have chosen a rock type

[@Tryc3]

Love gen3 regardless of its flaws

[@omegahaxors9-11]

Fr first game that ever treated its mostly child audience with respect Here's a puzzle, no hints, learn a new language. Have fun. And we did. I ended up completing them without learning braille by just going off context clues, it was glorious.

[@Elfos64]

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.

[@yoshiwoollyworld]

FRLG must complete sevil island to trade with colosseum and xd while the hoenn games must beat the elite four to trade with xd

[@RayoMcQueen95990]

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

[@yoshiwoollyworld]

@@RayoMcQueen95990 emerald must beat e4 to trade with xd but not with colosseum

[@Elfos64]

@@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).

[@RayoMcQueen95990]

@@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

[@montyeggman3075]

Your dedication and passion to complete a challenge that very few would even consider attempting, let alone going through with, is beyond admirable and truly cements you as one of the most accomplished Poketubers out there. And yet the professors still don't seem to care about your accomplishments as much as Game Freak does.

[@theaureliasys6362]

Even Aquareon Lyra forgets that Guarados is water flying. I do too. Every. Damn. Time.

[@Pinkietron]

i dont think i have ever mistaken it for being dragon because I simply remember that it dies when it smells an electric move

[@ApathyBM]

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

[@excalibur493]

How

[@nerddwarf]

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

[@JoshSweetvale]

I don't _Thunderbolt_

[@AnyThingWorx]

how does bro do two full living dexes and think Gyarados is dragon type ?

[@hoaujudaiyubel]

There is no end to the road that is Pokemon I can totally see this becoming a tagline

[@dominodamsel]

THANK YOU! i also always thought it was cool that you had to figure out braille to get the regis, and people complaining about it like its ridiculously difficult or weird always acting like braille is some sort of alien script unknown to man are missing the fact that this is a great way to introduce this writing system's existence to kids in a fun way. it always rubs me the wrong way when people complain about it overmuch

[@EWOODJ]

Either you missed it or you’re in on it…

[@catboy57392]

oh man my kudos for your dedication, over the last like month or so ive done the gen1 and 2 living dexes and started gen3 and just couldnt do it anymore, i had pokemon burnout lmao

[@theaveragesquire]

1:39 bro how do you know so much about pokémon and so little at the same time 💀

[@Hapsby]

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.

[@pbmander3949]

Bro gen 3 had a multi select option in the pc!?!?! Today I learned I spent so much time doing it one by one DX

[@Hydrocannon]

Only on FireRed, LeafGreen & Emerald. Pressing select in Ruby & Sapphire simply turns the cursor yellow which skips the menu that pops up when selecting a mon.

[@Kite403]

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

[@greenspeedser]

Flying types be immune to earthquake

[@excalibur493]

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.

[@spice4life.64]

@@excalibur493 gale of darkness is my first Pokémon game lol

[@excalibur493]

@@spice4life.64 My first game was Ruby, but XD was my second! Great times were had.

[@spice4life.64]

@@excalibur493 I wouldn't say great times I only started playing Pokémon this year lol

[@translarrybutz]

12:20 "Love cant bloom on the battlefield, its not true" metal gear reference!!!

[@howdytherestranger2139]

Oh, lovely, we now have a sequel to “I thought it had sturdy” : “I thought it was Water/Dragon”

[@charlessegale6493]

48:08: When Lyra finally remembered our boy Scizor!

[@LadyTsunade777]

One huge tip for level grinding in Gen 3 (and ORAS later): If you have access to a second Gen 3 game to Record Mix with, there is a strat known as Blissey Bases. This is where someone sets up their Secret Base with their team having three level 100 Blisseys that all do not know any damage or recovery moves. This allows anyone else that mixes records with them to grind against these Blissey repeatedly for super fast XP. (because Blissey is the pokemon with the single highest base XP given by far; it gives 2.5x more XP than Ludicolo or Shiftry, and XP given scales with the target's level, so level 100 Blissey give crazy xp) Also, fun fact that isn't really useful: Gabby and Ty will stop changing locations after you beat them 255 times. They will just always be at Route 111, but still able to continuously rematch.

[@KingOskar4]

56:32 😂😂😂 You did not dissapoint, Lyra. I was actively looking for the funniest way how you could explain "Event Pokémon are Today's DLC" trope😅 and Cosmic Rays is THE ONE😮 thing I didn't think of! Well played 😂❤ made my day, Thank you Lyra.❤ P.S.: In all honesty😂 I also cheated to get to the Navel Rock in Pokémon Emerald because I wanted Lugia soooo badly 😢

[@ZuoKalp]

57:24

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

Actually, the interviewer trainers bug out after you defeat them enough, so you can just sit there and fight them over and over again.

[@Raddaman8000]

It truly is the end of an era. I cannot wait to see what you have in store for the future, and thank you as well for proving to me that not only is this possible, but it is worth the adventure. I'm now aiming to complete the entire franchise's list of Pokédexes, regional AND national, and it will take me many years to accomplish. But it can be done. Gens 7 and 8 are completely under my belt, I've completed the Platinum Dex (in a copy of Diamond no less!), and while my main focus is on SV right now, I plan on going back and completing Hoenn, Kanto, and Gen 3 as a whole as well. Your series is truly inspirational to someone like me, and I wish you all of the luck in your future videos, especially Gen 4- Munchlax really is as difficult as they say it is.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

Honestly, it's easier to get Snorlax in HGSS and breed it with a Full Incense. Or the PokéWalker. Just as long, but at least you're exercising in the meantime.

[@Raddaman8000]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 Oh 100%, no doubt- I'm just insane and did it the hard way.

[@shytendeakatamanoir9740]

@@Raddaman8000 Wow, congratulations! I hope you at least used a cheat to get your secret ID and pinpointed the locations of Munchlax trees, because otherwise, I can't even imagine how many times it took

[@Raddaman8000]

@@shytendeakatamanoir9740 Weeks. It took weeks of bringing my DS into work and meticulously honeying every tree, every 6 hours, avoiding repeat slathers of the same tree- I had a full Sinnoh map set up and everything lmao The good news is, once I did find my tree, I made sure never to slather another one again- Munchlax have a 90% chance to return to the same tree once you find one. Anyway do not recommend XD

[@catface101]

Scizor out here catching strays left and right, good thing it has a Metal Coat

[@GamingWarlord64]

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

[@lucindamarx5098]

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:

[@Laprisu]

Lyra.... you have played Gen 1 and Gen 2, if not so many more games HOW DID YOU FORGET THAT GYRADAOS IS PART FLYING???????

[@Mrperson0]

Congrats on completing the Gen 3 Living Pokedex! Only issue is Faraway Island Mew was limited to JP copies of Emerald, so an English Mew is illegitimate no matter what. At least the other events were available in English copies of the game. As long as it is just a part of your collection, it isnt a big deal.

[@ShadySpaceSquid]

Holy stinkin cow! I’m going out of cell range soon but man o man I needed something today and Lyra let me tell you baby *THIS WAS IT* Like *I* personally feel like I won the lotto just now there’s over an hour of this content? Thank you and let me just leave you with “this could not have come at a better time.”

[@GavinAstraWolf]

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!

[@clayhacklaid]

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

[@MaxRavenclaw]

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.

[@peterrealar2.067]

Dude, what's with the lack of a Water type in Ruby? You made Flannery harder than she needed to be.

[@chippedgoat]

What water type do you use for flannery?

[@peterrealar2.067]

@@chippedgoat There's always Wingull or Marill.

[@chippedgoat]

@@peterrealar2.067 I don’t remember that many water types pre flannery. Wingul and Maril are both kinda…. Eh

[@peterrealar2.067]

@@chippedgoat Marill with Huge Power is not EH.

[@chippedgoat]

@@peterrealar2.067 it’s not like it’s water moves get buffed by huge power

[@ivanbluecool]

Pokemon. A game that makes you work for using their full list of mons before dlc became big.

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

Yeah when working for it worked. DLC sucks especially when it's time restrained.

[@jevonp]

And now doesn’t even let you pay or play for the privilege of using all the mons! lol

[@ivanbluecool]

@@jevonp also moves removed. Guess hidden power is now truly hidden

[@blameitondanny]

Well yeah, they immediately dropped the "Gotta catch 'em all" really quick in only 2 generations.

[@The_Phoenix_Saga]

@@blameitondanny And then they wonder why modders out there are plentiful and do better then they do.

[@Br0oham]

I genuinely didn't even know the "The Downpour ended" thing could even happen, as i'd always just found the cave, so that's a really cool thing to learn

[@bicarbonateofsoda117]

No way bro used earthquake on a gyarados, thought he was water/dragon. Bruh

[@gjonesstan]

Great, now I have to make popcorn.

[@MrVideoScape]

Bro brought a lvl 15 jirachi to a level 28 torkoal fight

[@JoshSweetvale]

14:00 Ah yes, Worldbreaker Altaria, slayer of Nuzlockes. Jaiden foretold it.

[@roxanarama]

been following the journey since the beginning. seeing an update vid always brightens my day :)

[@Angboy180]

"Never one to hold a grudge" Says the one who KOed Ho-oh and Lugia

[@MarthChan]

Oooo! I have been waiting for this! I absolutely love these videos! Thank you for reminding me of the good memories of Generation III! And congratulations on completing this behemoth of a project! I look forward to your next endeavor! :D

[@7highstraight]

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.

[@faerylnhiikira1053]

Poor Scizor, lost and forgotten to time in Lyra's world.

[@Hijiri_MIRACHION]

Scizor just can't catch a break, can it?

[@sonicmeerkat]

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

[@tommymaxey2665]

Wow its great that you got this done. I'm at 365 with 191 hours on my main copy of Emerald. I own two copies of Emerald, 2 fire red, 1 sapphire, 1 ruby, and 1 colosseum(i had leaf green as a kid, its somewhere at home, but my mom hid it from me as a kid and im still trying to find it). First i got a living Hoenn dex in Emerald. This was pretty simple. Feebas took me 3 hours and grinding was annoying. What was most scary about this was my Sapphire copy actually got corrupted. Luckily i was able to load up the game normally and trade all the necessary pokemon i needed to emerald. Once i got a living hoenn dex i got one Johto starter from Birch. Then i traded the entire living dex to my other emerald copy. Fun fact about this you don't need to leave the trade room for it to count in the pokedex. So i got my 2nd Johto starter on my second emerald copy and sent it to my main emerald. Then i restarted my 2nd emerald copy, traded every pokemon again, and went through the game with an already completed pokedex(before the first gym). As soon as i completed the elite 4 i got my last Johto starter. Recently ive been getting everything from Fire Red over and emerald extra safari zone. All i have left are the Leaf Green exlusives and bs legendaries and mythicals. I'm hoping i can find my old copy of leaf green, because i dont want to spend $100 on leaf green ffs. And then theres mew, lugia, Ho-Oh, Celebi, Jirachi, and Deoxys. Those will take some more "effort". I have a E reader so i could try to reprint my own cards. Then theres also the Pomeg berry glitch i can try too. My Colosseum copy has been rough. Its a hard game to play. Leveling is just broken. Endlessly grinding a few levels and its still not enough to beat those trainers with tournament competitive teams. I think i missed a few shadow pokemon so i should probably just restart the save anyways. I love gen 3 which is why I'm actually trying to do this stupid challenge. Only in gen 3 do you need every single game and the spinoffs to finish the pokedex. Is it bs and stupid, yes, but i love it so much. Getting all that hardware and software set up to get everything has been fun. The biggest help to all of this is the emerald cloning glitch. Getting unlimited masterballs, evelution items, and stat boosting items is incredible. Im hoping i can finish off the normal dex by the end of the year. Just have to find my old gba sp at home and finish it out

[@Silverxvi]

Imagine playing EVERY prior game in the series and not realizing until EMERALD that Gyarados is a Water/Flying type lmfao.

[@HECKproductions]

imagine not knowing gyarados is flying type that hurts my soul

[@-tristan]

Deoxys' theme literally gives me chills!

[@excalibur493]

The mashup of the og version and the ORAS remaster is godly.

[@browncow5210]

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.

[@prestonangel448]

Give this guy a medal, and a hug. Holy shit bro, I would give up not even 15 hours into the full NatDex run.

[@NPP_1]

It sure was a long journey. It was an honor having been here since gen 1 :)

[@gilibeck]

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.

[@reddevilgaming2577]

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]

what is a LOSERdex?

[@reddevilgaming2577]

@@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]

@reddevilgaming2577 that sounds so impossibly hard, good luck!

[@reddevilgaming2577]

@@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

[@DavidJCobb]

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

[@Subject_Keter]

"I made a website tracking down how to do it" >literally rolls all over the floor 😂

[@LinkAlmeida]

What do you mean it's a Flying-type? It's using dragon dance Meanwhile a Rhydon somewhere: Let me just Surf some waves.

[@nill1584]

for the flannery if you get a marill right before her gym they know defense curl and roll out defense curl has a hidden interaction where if you use it before roll out it doubles the power and you just use whiney strats azurill just rolls through the next 3 gyms in 5 seconds

[@justinalicea1590]

Lyra: "I'm a pro!" Also Lyra: _does not know the type of Gyarados despite having held one 3 times_ Lyra, I think you revealed that you're good at catching Pokémon. So get some rest.

[@thatcloveplant]

LET'S FUCKING GOOOOO THE END OF GEN 3, BEEN WAITING FOR THIS FOREVER LMAOO

[@arnoldmabrito8640]

Its insane this happen only around 4 months ago. And consequently Im also trying to completely Pokemon Emeralds Pokedex as well. But honestly looking at this, your anguish trying to complete it speaks for itself (with a few enjoyable laughs) makes it all the more exciting and more entertaining, and rewarding for me in the hopes I do end up completing it. I already catch the 3 regi pokemon, along with Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza. I have yet to catch latios or latias (I also forgotten which color I picked) and I'm using the gametimeplayer version of pokemon emerald on computer (which might mean more work for me but I down to get it done). Without much help, I going to try to complete the hoenn pokedex as much as I can before trying to do the others. If you reply to do in any way you like (whether itd you Lyra or other people around the internet) in any that is helpful is most appreciated. I do hope to go all out of this. Awesome work, editing, working, grinding, leveling and many more congratulations on your efforts on making it this far.

[@emilyvilleneuve9315]

Cheers to you Lyra :) I thought I was the only one crazy enough to do this! Emerald is my favorite Pokémon game and I have a massive love for Gen 3 as a whole, so much so that in 2014 when I was like 16 I got a bit obsessive and decided on makkng Emerald my Living PC for every Pokémon in the National Dex; I numbered my PC boxes 1-30, 31-60, 61-90, etc. the same as you The concept sprung from the fact that there is an in‐game glitch in the Emerald's Battle Frontier that allows you to duplicate Pokémon, and my want for a well to send said copies along to future generations without losing the ability to have the originals still live in their Gen 3 homes 😊 That said, my neurospicy ADD brain won't allow me to duplicate them before evolutions and stuff because all the ones IN Emerald need to be their own individuals. I have had the support of many great people in getting to my goal who have let me borrow a GameShark to get the in-game events I missed as a kid + a Japanese GBA, GameCube, and copies of games I didn't already own to get the Japanese event exclusives! I'm only 30ish Pokémon away from finishing my mission, but adult life has prevented me from being able to put as much time into it as I did when I started, so it's now a fun little thing I pick away at any time I have a vacation :)

[@falconclaw105]

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!

[@regal-27]

What a rollercoaster. On the one hand, huge congrats on finishing the living dex for gen 3! On the other hand, thank you for the laugh with Gyarados.

[@TheSkinnyZ]

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.

[@thefinalskarm1754]

30:30 You have Kyogre. 59:20 cool lugia and ho-oh fact, it's not dex mandatory until HGSS and considered mythical status.

[@ikbintom]

This is so amazing!! Thanks for making the website too :OOO motivated me to look at my old pokemon sapphire game again, which still has my first save file from 2004.

[@NmanStully]

I always get excited seeing your videos pop up in my feed. Thanks, Lyra!🎉

[@SSBRocker]

Earlier this year I completed the Gen 3 Pokedex too for the first time (although no living dex) and it was an unique experience. The checklist on your website helped me a lot.

[@kata_zonda]

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.

[@benediktwindisch2778]

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

[@sporkafife]

Wow, just been watching your back catalogue to catch up, and here you are ☺️

[@CapnJigglypuff]

THAT'S MY GUY WHO MADE A WEBSITE!

[@seventysue8090]

Hey mate I just finished my Pokemon yellow living dex using your website in May and started a gen 2 living dex in Crystal. I'm happy to see you're going back and trying yellow but man I totally regret picking yellow. It will be fine to watch you navigate it. Keep up the good work!

[@Griffnix]

I enjoyed catching them all in my living Dex for Gen 3. It wasn't tedious for me in the least. I will say that gen 4 was a pain because of all the different ways to catch the national dex pokemon post game. It made me stop for a while and I'm just now getting back to my project with cleaning up my Gen 1 games after losing my Blue save and hopefully finishing up Gen 2 dex after gen 3 tempting me.

[@HaydenTheHistorian]

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.

[@Nat3Couto]

Thanks to your website Lyra I was able to complete this challenge earlier this year in April! Started this project in January worked on it periodically. Easily one of my favorite challenges :)

[@bendonatier]

I wasn't expecting pokemon to be interrupted by big fishing. I bet you can't wait for a whole "new world" of fish to catch.