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Random: Pokémon Fan Finishes Challenge To Play Every Game Without Using Pokémon Twice

It took two and a half years to complete the series.

Pokémon fans love making things harder for themselves. There’s the Nuzlocke Challenge, in which you can only catch the first Pokémon you meet in every area, and fainted Pokémon are considered “dead” and must be released. There’s the original Twitch Plays Pokémon, which keeps popping up with more variants, like playing Pokémon Red and Blue simultaneously.

Reddit user Volman99 probably isn’t the first person to play through the entire Pokémon series without repeating a single Pokémon, but he certainly is thorough. His rules include playing all the variants, like Red, Blue, and Yellow; being able to have, but not use “HM slaves” – a fan term for a Pokémon used to learn all the useful game progression moves, but generally not a member of the final team – and allowing himself to count Pokémon with multiple evolutionary branches as two separate entities.

Read the full article on nintendolife.com