Dec 15th: This is the URL for the always updated version. (Indigo Disk update soon) pokejungle.net/2023/03/27/how-to-organize-pokemon-home-for-a-living-dex/
I’m in college studying environmental science and these spreadsheets are more advanced than anything I’ve seen before. I hope you do a tutorial someday because people don’t realize how useful of a tool excel/sheets is
@Chris Cabral I started a new home so im starting from scratch. I decided to replay all my Pokémon games on this account and see how much of the pokedex I can complete without needing bank or older games. So far I've only got maybe 250 ready for bank since I started a couple weeks ago. Wish me luck! 😅 My original home is a hot mess so I keep paying for it but I don't like looking at it lmao
@@Emily-lh6em lmao. Oh my. Going to be a while then. Lmao. 😅 Tbh i have my home all over the place. I have shinies and doubles and idk what im going to do with them. Idk if i want to do a living dex and or shiny living dex. Lmao. What game are you currently playing.?
@Chris Cabral yeah my home is the same. Maybe it's my Adhd but when I go on there I just get overwhelmed and say I'll organize it later. I would love it if they gave us an auto sort function for home and in games. I just feel like with a 1,000+ Pokémon they should consider it a necessary quality of life feature. I started with voilet because it's the most recent and I wanted my save file to be ready when the dlc comes. I have both versions of all the games we've got on switch so I can get the version exclusives but I think I'm gonna do these next: Pokemon Sheild + DLC > legends > Brilliant Diamond > Let's go Eevee and then work my way through the other versions after. hope your pokedex is coming along well. It's gonna be a while for me I think even though I do have a lot of time to play. 🫡
I've been working on my full high IV living Dex now for about a year and while I have about 70% of it done. mostly mythic/legendaries left over. this is gonna be useful to find out where to go for the rest of em. Thank you for the hard work, dedication and for distributing this awesome spreadsheet.
Replying to my own comment might be cringe but I thought it would be rude to edit it after AJP liked it. After looking through the spreadsheet, if I would add only one thing it would be a column that stated what game they Originally appeared in. I'm not so good with what gen is what,(i.e. gen 6 is pokemon X and Y ect.) so, I would personally find that information invaluable.
I've actually been working on something like this since X/Y came out too. My goal is to have a full living dex with either 5/6 IVs for all breedable mons, and as close to perfect as I can reasonably get with gift only/ legendaries. I also want everything in balls that match them, at least one in each line with hidden abilities, and four egg moves. Obviously some of those criteria can't apply to certain pokemon, so in those cases I just settle for what I can get.
A challenge: try sorting out ONE box per day, will take you like 30 mins or 1hr. Try it. You will see how in less than a month you may cover up to 7gen
Just wanted to thank you for this. I made my own a while back and this one is 100x better. I'm going to spend alot of my weekend organizing my living dex!
I would say that you have no idea how much I appreciate this, but I have a feeling you understand just how valuable this is for people like us. I have my gen 1-8 living dex sorted out in Home rn but I wanted to expand it to a Form Living Dex and I was a bit daunted by the task. I was constantly using multiple tracking apps, plus using notes on my phone, PLUS writing out lists in a notebook. And I also wanted to make a shiny form living dex too because apparently I'm a masochist. (Though not enough of one to attempt shiny Manaphy. That is a huuuuuuuge nope.) Anyways, thank you so freaking much for all that you do for the Pokemon community.
Shiny Manaphy is really not that hard to acquire if you have two gen 4 games, two DS, and the willingness to learn how to RNG (it would take you a day or two tops). I know some people have a stance against RNG but the alternative is to shiny hunt for two years or just give up
@@elSteeler I just finished getting the majority of the Gen 3 and 4 legendaries as shiny using RNG, took me about a month! What a fun adventure it was, especially since it was my first time playing Platinum(amazing game!) :) I still have to do the Emerald glitch to get Celebi and Jirachi and leave the Manaphy for last lol
I’ve been working on a full living dex for a long time, gender differences and all, and I’ve wanted something like this to keep track of everything Thank you so so SO much Austin, you’re a real legend for this
@@giamoral10 alpha's make zero since for a living dex including appearance differences. all an alpha pokemon is is a bigger version with the exact same model
@@mywyd I’m trying to work on a living dex, but one thing I’m a lil stumpier on is how to properly get a lot of the mythical Pokémon, is it reliant on trading at this point?
@@CozyPawsRae Trading, GO, and waiting for events. They DO bring Mythicals back, but it takes a while. The closure of the 3DS eShop cut off quite a few. There were permanently obtainable shiny Mew, regular and shiny Celebi, and a Magearna. (Shiny Mew by glitching 1st gen VC games, Celebi was legitimately obtainable in VC Crystal, and could be shiny hunted, and Magerna is permanently available as a QR code scan in SM/USUM.) If you get all the Switch Pokemon games, then (shiny-locked) Arceus, Mew, Jirachi, Darkrai, and Shaymin are all permanently available. (Actually, I think shiny Arceus is permanently available, too.) You get shiny-locked Arceus from beating PLA, and you can get Darkrai and Shaymin in PLA by having save data for other Pokemon games. (I _think_ SwSh and BDSP). You get Mew and Jirachi in BDSP by having save data for LGPE and SwSh. You _also_ get a second Arceus in BDSP if you have a completed game save in PLA, and this is important because Arceus is NOT shiny-locked in BDSP. Darkrai and Shaymin were also not shiny-locked in BDSP, but their availability in BDSP was dependent on Mystery Gift events that are no longer active.
@@CozyPawsRae I might miss a couple here but I'm going to try to list all the ones you can still get, starting with the ones obtainable on switch: Mew is a gift from an NPC in Floaroma town in BDSP for having Lets Go save data, Jirachi is a gift from an NPC in Floaroma town in BDSP for having played SWSH, Manaphy, and Phione are obtainable in PLA by reading a book in the Canalave library in BDSP, which will unlock the quest in PLA, the Shaymin quest is obtainable post-game in PLA by having SWSH save data, the Darkrai quest in PLA is obtainable post-game by having BDSP save data, Arceus is obtainable by completing the Pokedex in PLA, Keldeo is obtainable in the Crown Tundra DLC in SWSH by catching the Swords of Justice, for the ones obtainable on 3DS (Pokemon Bank is required for these so if you didn't get it before the Eshop went down you cant get it unless you mod your 3DS): the GS ball for Celebi is obtainable post game in the 3DS VC Pokemon Crystal, (however if you don't already own crystal you cant get it cause Eshop went down unless you hack your 3DS), Deoxys is available post-game ORAS during the delta episode, Magearna is available post-game in SMUSUM by scanning its QR code (you can find it online), lastly in Pokemon Go you can catch a Meltan (don't really know how I don't play it) and you can obtain a Melmetal by transferring a Pokemon into home from go (so if you catch and transfer a Meltan you get its evolution as well), this leaves Victini, Meloetta, Genesect, Diancie, Hoopa, Volcanion, Marshadow, Zeraora, and Zarude you have to trade for, or hack your 3ds and install PKSM on it to inject the wondercards for the events in their respective games, which is considered legal though I'd understand if you wouldn't want to do that, or hack them in, which I wouldn't really recommend but it's an option, final option is just wait for the events to come back, I doubt Victini will be back anytime soon since it just had an event for VGC 2022, but you never know when they'll do an event for one again.
@@EpiclyEpicGamer 4 months late but in regards to Meltan: When you transfer a pokemon to pokemon home, you get a black box that works like a lure, which makes dozens of Meltans spawn around you.
I'm only 4 minutes in and I can already tell how much work went in to building something like this. I spent a few days making a very rudimentary version after I saw you show that you had one for your own home living dex a bit back. This one only showing box, column, row, dex number, variant (variant including form differences like gender, regional, shiny, and mega/g-max). I've been working on it on-and-off so I could keep better track of what pokemon forms I still need for it's completion. After finishing the video, I love it. Easy to keep track of every thing, and I absolutely appreciate the amount of work you put into this just to help the community even further than you already have. Thank you again for all the work you do in putting these videos and projects together!
I’ve literally in the past couple of weeks started to sort through my home and get a living dex sorted. Gen’s 1 & 2 are complete and I’m up to gen 3. So this is going to be a BIG help. Thank you sir 🙌👏
Thank you for doing this. This would have been very useful when I started my region living form dex (I get every pokémon from its earliest possible game), so I’m glad people wanting to start this challenge now will be able to sort their mons a lot easier
Question. Are you putting different forms next to the standard (ex. Male and female Venusaur) or are you putting forms in separate boxes? I'm agonizing over this
@@tonybrewer7536 I put forms together with their base forms. I like looking at the pokemon together. The only downside is that when a new form is released you have to move all the other pokemon from that generation over. But that's something you only have to do once every few years. I also like putting the female pokemon first because numerically the female Nidoran line is before the male one.
@@tonybrewer7536 I do something similar to Austin John where I have my forms and gender variants together (ie Male Ratatta, Female Ratatta, Alolan Ratatta, Male Raticate, Female Raticate, Alolan Raticate). Only difference is that both Kantonian Ratattas and Raticates will be from Virtual Console Red and Blue while the Alolan Ratatta and Raticate are from Moon
Note that Home now tracks each game's pokedex too. So it is worth having a full SV live dex to transfer in if you want the Home dex to show a little crown next to that game.
After getting 8F in Red, I’m actually striving for all 151 shiny and OT. I may never get a complete shiny living national dex because that’s exhausting but the info to organize one’s collection no matter how complete you want to go is fantastic.
I got my fill of finishing the dex back when it was only 150, but I really enjoyed listening to you talk about spreadsheets for 20 minutes. Thanks for working on and explaining tools that I know the pokemon community is going to love
This is an awesome resource - if I hadn't spent years already setting up my own one for working on my combined livingdex and shinydex I'd totally use this - thought I'd have to make a few modifications as I count battle bond greninja, own tempo rockruff and power construct zygarde as unique forms in mine. Plus I have a whole section dedicated to unboxable forms for all the ones that have a dex entry but you cannot physically have in Pokemon home (So all your fusions, battle forms and held item triggered forms)
Have mine organised in another fashion but still good to use it for a better overview of what i still have to catch especially on the shiny side since my full form living dex for the normal ones is nearly complete. So: thank you very much Austin.
I’m partway through making my own list and I’m putting forms at the end of the gen they were added in for example all the alolan forms are between the Alolan and Galarian pokemon so I won’t have to move everything when new forms are added but this will still massively help just having everything in one place instead of having to check which mons have gender differences etc.
This is a great document. I've been doing my living form dex for a while now but because I love pain I'm also doing OT and every Pokemon has to be caught in its original region. It's a hell of a grind!
I have my Living Form Dex almost entirely complete, but I'm going to use this going forward as it is so much more clean and convenient! The only thing I would change is something to keep track of moves and abilities, but I'll probably just create another sheet on my copy to do that.
I've already got a full living dex in home, and I've got most of my home living form dex finished. All my special Pokemon, from distributions and stuff, and put in other boxes. And so are my shinies. It's nice to have the full thing!
This has to be one of the greatest gifts to the community. I wanted to ask if you had a doc to help organize but you're already one step ahead and provided a solution.
Thank you for the work on this man! Been waiting on this so I can re-organise my home dex, been working on living form dex and Shiny living form dex Lite for quite some time now. Also, want to learn to spreadsheet like you, slowly getting better but going to dig into the sheet to see how it's all done behind the scenes 😂
i've been waiting for this! I've been looking to drive myself mad and do a shiny living dex and this is exactly what i needed. Thank you for your work!
You got me all hype that Home integration was released! I set up my living dex differently but I respect your setup. I have everything sorted by dex number then separate boxes for each region's forms then consecutive boxes for other various forms like Therians sorted by dex number
i like to update mine every gen with new regionals and such next to the originals. It makes them feel more included in my eyes. But I'm NOT going to do a family-dex style. that's a nightmare to setup. I've done it before lol.
@De'Gecko if he uploaded some other stuff that took way less work/time, people wouldn't find it as interesting and wouldn't watch it so he'd get less views and less money
@@2810Mad disagreed. We have many big UA-camr with trash content and 0 effort making lots of money. He could just make Vid showing his Home acc and say look how cool it is and done, he still would make good Money from that. Also funny how u just ignored the second part of my comment. ;)
Wow, this man is AWESOME 🤩🤩🤩 He always knows what we need better than us ourselves 😂 I was always searching for such thing in the Internet. Finally, Austin gave us this document THANK YOU VERY MUCH ❤
I recently got back into Pokémon and you sure don't help me getting out of it working on living shiny dex... I really appreciate the effort into that sheet
This is awesome. However, I like to sort all of my regional variants in their own box/Boxes. That way im future proofing for when they add new regional variants I don’t have to move every single pokemon so everything is in the right order. I just tack the new ones onto the end and I’m good. It’s a lot less work.
Exactly how i did it too. One list for National Dex. Then separate boxes for regionals, sorted by that regions dex number. Separate box for Unowns. I havent bothered with forms or genders, because i honestly dont feel the need to do it.
I finished my bank living dex years ago and used an excel sheet to figure it out. I’ve been putting off a living dex in home but this will be a huge help! I’ll definitely try your sheet out and will have to start organizing home!
Thanks so much for everything you do for us. I appreciate it so much! You've helped me out with Breath of The Wild and the pokemon Games, you are just so helpful man, appreciate you!
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As someone who's been going for a shiny living dex, thanks a lot for this!
Also working on my full living form dex and really enjoyed your video. I also keep track of what region they came from indicated by the small icon next to each mon; for example the pentagon for all Gen 6 mon. Please do an updated video when SV is added or if you make changes to the sheet, I'm definitely interested.
HEADS UP: Gholdengo and Wo-Chien have the same location number on the spreadsheet (Page 2, Box 20, Number 14, Row 3, Slot 2). Thanks for all the hard work on this! I've been needing to sort my entire HOME for a while but it was always such a daunting task; this spreadsheet made it some much more simple!
Small tip from my end: don't fill the boxes completely. I.a.w. start your next box after f.e. 20 entries. If you start a new box after the full 30 entries and game freak adds a new Meowth form, you have to move about 1000 Pokemon 1 spot. At the start i filled all boxes up till 20 Pokemon before moving to the next, so i had room left for cap Pikachu's, Hisuian Forms and Paldean forms without shifting all other Pokemons.
This is why i put mine differently. All in order by National Dex number. Then separate boxes for Regionals. Separate box for Unowns etc. That way you dont end up with number 151 in your list not being Mew etc. All personal preference. Also, there are there are 8.5 billion spindas so i gave up on forms lol
See, I have all of the different female gender forms, regional forms, etc etc in entirely separate boxes. I wonder if he is going to make a version of the document where you can have all of those Pokémon in a separate set of boxes from the main list of all the Pokémon.
I already have an organizational system for my pokemon home, but it's cool to see yours. Mine's just organizing by generation with the first two generations being grouped together (since I still have almost all of the games from Gen 3 onwards physically and the Gen 1 and 2 games on VC).
Still personally a bigger fan of the Serebii one, since alternate forms/genders are in a different area. I like that more since the pokedex number is always the spot in the box, as well as futureproofing for any future forms not shifting EVERYTHING over by 1... BUT this is still by far the most detailed, and will be great as a freaking CRAZY good checklist for what I have, need to evolve, etc. Can't think of any way to make that element better. Great work!
Yea, would love a copy paste with all the extra alolan forms in the end. I don't wanna shift my entire collection to the right if we get a Alolan Nidoking. Hopefully Pokemon Home will add functionality like "Start living dex" from x box, and it would automatically try to fill in the spots u have the pokemon for.
And hopefully a shiny event too. Remember folks Diancie is currently shiny locked. If you see any one offering a shiny Diancie, it's hacked. So do as you wish, just be careful.
@@9Tailsfan actually diancie isnt shiny locked since there were shiny events of it before i think you are mistaking it for hoopa and volcanion which are shiny licked
absolutely crazy that you've done this, and are helping out the community for free....*holding back tears*...thank you for this! proud to be a subscriber of this level of amazing content and resources
Haven't organized my living dex in a bit and this came right on time. I'm pretty excited to go for the forms now. Haven't figured out where I'm putting my extra copies of some pokemon. I'll probably just put them in box 200.
I'm so glad I started doing this back in XY when it was way easier to set up.. I have a full regular living dex, but decided to put myself up to a full shiny living dex.
Im loving this doc. I have been catching EVERY pokemon from their original games for the past 2 years. As well as the forms and gender differences. Even the side games, pokemon box, ranch, etc. Im talking pokemon ranger manaphy egg, pokemon ranch mew and manaphy, pokemon box egg pokemon, colosseum and XD mons, plus many more. This is going to help otganize everything. Thanks to everyone who helps to this together. I might show off my collection on my stream and this doc will help organize all of my thoughts!
I've been working on a spreadsheet in Excel for the past month or so and Austin really came out here and just slapped me down with something better than I could have done myself. I may make a few modifications but hot diggity do I appreciate not having to work on my own anymore.
i started my living dex in pokemon XY, i had everything + all forms and gender dimorphic ones and just mainted it in the next games, but from arceus and SV i got a bit lazy ngl so this is super helpful! now i can finish SV and arceus and know what i need to catch much easier :') plus my home is eh mostly organised, but i put forms/dimorphic ones in diff boxes together, perhaps ill leave them all together instead i quite like the way you do so thanks for this document!
I'm currently working on mine. I'm not necessarily a fan of how regional forms are stored. Yes, their dex numbers are the same but I don't want the future me to have to go back and fix it if the new games get different region forms. But I do like this sheet and I've ready for mine organizish. Just gonna put the regional forms in with whatever generation they came in.
Actually managed to discover this video today since I’m officially starting my living form dex this week. Playing all generations (and every remake due to the mobile challenges) mainly focusing on remakes for the dex challenge, but I myself have found this daunting. But I commend you for making this list, so now I can check who I need extras of at any point in time.
This video/doc is amazing! The dedication and patience that goes into creating this shows not just how passionate you are about Pokemon, but also how much you want to help others with that same passion. Great work Austin.
This is a great resource. I completed my own Living Dex recently, was super satisfying. Personally I went with the Pokémon coming from games with their origin region (Pikachu from a Kanto game, Totodile from a Johto game, etc.)
Just noticed you are already putting out updates to this. So good to see someone put something like this out and actually keeping up with it. I’m still trying to figure out the import feature, but this is so awesome. Thank you for this awesome tool!
Thank you so much for this! My HOME has been a mess since I transferred up all of my pokemon from Bank years ago, and I've never wanted to release any of them in case I wanted them in the future. But I'm going to go for a full living form dex, and release the rest (and keep any that are super good stats/my favorite mons). Having a lot of fun organizing everything!
Man, I’ve been playing Pokemon since Gen1 but always on emulators. This last year with the announcement of the eShop from DS closing I’ve bought a DS Lite, a 3DSXL and a Switch, got all the digital games that were available and I’ve been buying the physical ones. I was planning on doing an OT living dex on Home and I started completing the SV dex already. But bro, you did an awesome job, I was going to do a sheets like that to track everything but I could never done better than you, this one is simple amazing bro, tyvm for sharing it and spread the Pokemon collecting love ❤
Thanks for this Austin. Been waiting for and I love it. Had to make a simple one for S&V prep which I’m going to keep just for tracking marks and 6ivs.
Man I'm so excited, I've been hoping to see your master spreadsheet ever since you first started mentioning it. Been trying to organize HOME off and on over the past 1.5 years and keep getting burnt out. I think this will be really helpful for finally finishing it out. ❤
Thanks for this! I’ve almost completed a living form Dex, just missing a few event Pokémon. The only thing different that I do is include later gen evolutions within the same family. For example, Scyther, Scizor, Kleavor in order or Magby, Magmar, Magmorter. And now I’ll include the paradox forms next to the original Pokémon!
I’ve actually decided to go on a “quest” to have a complete mainline+Console Counterpart (XD Gale of Darkness for instance) collection, to play all of them and eventually create a complete Home Living Dex in a few years, with the goal of having a set team I take with me to each game and region, and have them obtain every single ribbon! Austin, thank you for the amazing work you put into making this, and everything else (like the trading codes), you have no idea how much I and many others appreciate your effort, cheers fam!
This is exactly how I organized my pokemon home during the pandemic! A point that I don't think you explained very much is that switching to a new box for each new generation makes it really easy to update just that one generation when a new form, etc. is added in a later game. At the very end of my living dex I also have a box of pokemon with battle forms -- which right now is mostly the various special gigantimax forms, along with transforming darmantian and greninja
Last week I decided to restart my old Fire Red cartridge. Then I came across a tiktok with the idea of a Origin Living Form Dex, so yesterday I decided to go for it. You just made my life so much easier with this spreadsheet. Much appreciated.
Austin John reminding me that OBSESSIVE CATALOGUING is what I have always loved best about Pokémon 😂 (even after 25 years of playing). Amazing resource, thank you!
I watched this video In April of this year, and after many dollars spent and over 500 hours of pokemon games played, I have completed the entire living form lite dex in HOME. Only using POGO stamped mons when absolutely necessary. Very glad I found this video to provide the guide for me, I will look into touching up the gender differences to go for the full version now
Dec 15th: This is the URL for the always updated version. (Indigo Disk update soon)
pokejungle.net/2023/03/27/how-to-organize-pokemon-home-for-a-living-dex/
Small recommendation, would suggest including the link to the website on key sheet as well. However this is awesome!! Thanks so much for sharing.
Hey John! I wanted to ask why Pokemon Go pokemon didn't really make the Home list. That would be an easy way to get a Skitty!
charjabug and grubbins names are swapped👍
@@GSpacmanvice X/Y and ORAS are other viable options for Skitty for people who grabbed those games before the eShop closed.
I’m just hoping that the new Pokémon Home update comes soon
An auto organize function would be such a high quality of life update for Pokemon Home!
Just imagine if Gamefreak or Nintendo actually cared about that. Thats Crazy xD
the feature will probably come out after you spend 10 hours organizing your boxes
I’m in college studying environmental science and these spreadsheets are more advanced than anything I’ve seen before. I hope you do a tutorial someday because people don’t realize how useful of a tool excel/sheets is
Facts. I made a damage calculator using Excel and it's scary just how powerful this tool really can be.
Stop the cap xd
We use excel at my work place. The program is absolutely insane. Its amazing the types of things its capable of
Well I’m guessing the reason excel’s functionality blows you away is because u study environmental science …
I'm actually trying to complete the pokedex as best as possible in Pokémon home. This will come in handy 🎉
Hows the home pokedex going.?
@Chris Cabral I started a new home so im starting from scratch. I decided to replay all my Pokémon games on this account and see how much of the pokedex I can complete without needing bank or older games. So far I've only got maybe 250 ready for bank since I started a couple weeks ago. Wish me luck! 😅
My original home is a hot mess so I keep paying for it but I don't like looking at it lmao
@@Emily-lh6em lmao. Oh my. Going to be a while then. Lmao. 😅
Tbh i have my home all over the place. I have shinies and doubles and idk what im going to do with them. Idk if i want to do a living dex and or shiny living dex. Lmao.
What game are you currently playing.?
@Chris Cabral yeah my home is the same. Maybe it's my Adhd but when I go on there I just get overwhelmed and say I'll organize it later. I would love it if they gave us an auto sort function for home and in games. I just feel like with a 1,000+ Pokémon they should consider it a necessary quality of life feature.
I started with voilet because it's the most recent and I wanted my save file to be ready when the dlc comes. I have both versions of all the games we've got on switch so I can get the version exclusives but I think I'm gonna do these next:
Pokemon Sheild + DLC > legends > Brilliant Diamond > Let's go Eevee and then work my way through the other versions after. hope your pokedex is coming along well. It's gonna be a while for me I think even though I do have a lot of time to play. 🫡
@@PokeDad93 how far along are you with yours?
I've been working on my full high IV living Dex now for about a year and while I have about 70% of it done. mostly mythic/legendaries left over. this is gonna be useful to find out where to go for the rest of em. Thank you for the hard work, dedication and for distributing this awesome spreadsheet.
Replying to my own comment might be cringe but I thought it would be rude to edit it after AJP liked it. After looking through the spreadsheet, if I would add only one thing it would be a column that stated what game they Originally appeared in. I'm not so good with what gen is what,(i.e. gen 6 is pokemon X and Y ect.) so, I would personally find that information invaluable.
I've actually been working on something like this since X/Y came out too. My goal is to have a full living dex with either 5/6 IVs for all breedable mons, and as close to perfect as I can reasonably get with gift only/ legendaries. I also want everything in balls that match them, at least one in each line with hidden abilities, and four egg moves. Obviously some of those criteria can't apply to certain pokemon, so in those cases I just settle for what I can get.
I always wanted to sort my Pokemon but once I see the mess of boxes I give up before I even start
Same 😂
So true
Yea me too
Literally me😒
A challenge: try sorting out ONE box per day, will take you like 30 mins or 1hr.
Try it. You will see how in less than a month you may cover up to 7gen
Just wanted to thank you for this. I made my own a while back and this one is 100x better. I'm going to spend alot of my weekend organizing my living dex!
I would say that you have no idea how much I appreciate this, but I have a feeling you understand just how valuable this is for people like us. I have my gen 1-8 living dex sorted out in Home rn but I wanted to expand it to a Form Living Dex and I was a bit daunted by the task. I was constantly using multiple tracking apps, plus using notes on my phone, PLUS writing out lists in a notebook. And I also wanted to make a shiny form living dex too because apparently I'm a masochist. (Though not enough of one to attempt shiny Manaphy. That is a huuuuuuuge nope.)
Anyways, thank you so freaking much for all that you do for the Pokemon community.
Shiny Manaphy is really not that hard to acquire if you have two gen 4 games, two DS, and the willingness to learn how to RNG (it would take you a day or two tops). I know some people have a stance against RNG but the alternative is to shiny hunt for two years or just give up
@@elSteeler I just finished getting the majority of the Gen 3 and 4 legendaries as shiny using RNG, took me about a month! What a fun adventure it was, especially since it was my first time playing Platinum(amazing game!) :)
I still have to do the Emerald glitch to get Celebi and Jirachi and leave the Manaphy for last lol
coming from someone doing a shiny form living dex, manaphy is fine. however, vivillon exists
@@jh1244 That sounds like the most insane task ever
@@jh1244 thankfully vivillon is okay(ish) now with the pokemon violet stamps thingy :)
I’ve been working on a full living dex for a long time, gender differences and all, and I’ve wanted something like this to keep track of everything
Thank you so so SO much Austin, you’re a real legend for this
Even Alpha shinies? xD
@@giamoral10 alpha's make zero since for a living dex including appearance differences.
all an alpha pokemon is is a bigger version with the exact same model
Austin John thank you for all the amazing work you do for the pokemon community! Your content is truly top tier!
Might actually attempt a living dex thank you Austin 🙏
I started working on a living dex in home since SV dropped, between shield, violet, and Go it didn’t take too long honestly
@@mywyd I’m trying to work on a living dex, but one thing I’m a lil stumpier on is how to properly get a lot of the mythical Pokémon, is it reliant on trading at this point?
@@CozyPawsRae Trading, GO, and waiting for events. They DO bring Mythicals back, but it takes a while.
The closure of the 3DS eShop cut off quite a few. There were permanently obtainable shiny Mew, regular and shiny Celebi, and a Magearna. (Shiny Mew by glitching 1st gen VC games, Celebi was legitimately obtainable in VC Crystal, and could be shiny hunted, and Magerna is permanently available as a QR code scan in SM/USUM.)
If you get all the Switch Pokemon games, then (shiny-locked) Arceus, Mew, Jirachi, Darkrai, and Shaymin are all permanently available. (Actually, I think shiny Arceus is permanently available, too.)
You get shiny-locked Arceus from beating PLA, and you can get Darkrai and Shaymin in PLA by having save data for other Pokemon games. (I _think_ SwSh and BDSP). You get Mew and Jirachi in BDSP by having save data for LGPE and SwSh.
You _also_ get a second Arceus in BDSP if you have a completed game save in PLA, and this is important because Arceus is NOT shiny-locked in BDSP.
Darkrai and Shaymin were also not shiny-locked in BDSP, but their availability in BDSP was dependent on Mystery Gift events that are no longer active.
@@CozyPawsRae I might miss a couple here but I'm going to try to list all the ones you can still get, starting with the ones obtainable on switch: Mew is a gift from an NPC in Floaroma town in BDSP for having Lets Go save data, Jirachi is a gift from an NPC in Floaroma town in BDSP for having played SWSH, Manaphy, and Phione are obtainable in PLA by reading a book in the Canalave library in BDSP, which will unlock the quest in PLA, the Shaymin quest is obtainable post-game in PLA by having SWSH save data, the Darkrai quest in PLA is obtainable post-game by having BDSP save data, Arceus is obtainable by completing the Pokedex in PLA, Keldeo is obtainable in the Crown Tundra DLC in SWSH by catching the Swords of Justice, for the ones obtainable on 3DS (Pokemon Bank is required for these so if you didn't get it before the Eshop went down you cant get it unless you mod your 3DS): the GS ball for Celebi is obtainable post game in the 3DS VC Pokemon Crystal, (however if you don't already own crystal you cant get it cause Eshop went down unless you hack your 3DS), Deoxys is available post-game ORAS during the delta episode, Magearna is available post-game in SMUSUM by scanning its QR code (you can find it online), lastly in Pokemon Go you can catch a Meltan (don't really know how I don't play it) and you can obtain a Melmetal by transferring a Pokemon into home from go (so if you catch and transfer a Meltan you get its evolution as well), this leaves Victini, Meloetta, Genesect, Diancie, Hoopa, Volcanion, Marshadow, Zeraora, and Zarude you have to trade for, or hack your 3ds and install PKSM on it to inject the wondercards for the events in their respective games, which is considered legal though I'd understand if you wouldn't want to do that, or hack them in, which I wouldn't really recommend but it's an option, final option is just wait for the events to come back, I doubt Victini will be back anytime soon since it just had an event for VGC 2022, but you never know when they'll do an event for one again.
@@EpiclyEpicGamer 4 months late but in regards to Meltan:
When you transfer a pokemon to pokemon home, you get a black box that works like a lure, which makes dozens of Meltans spawn around you.
I'm only 4 minutes in and I can already tell how much work went in to building something like this. I spent a few days making a very rudimentary version after I saw you show that you had one for your own home living dex a bit back. This one only showing box, column, row, dex number, variant (variant including form differences like gender, regional, shiny, and mega/g-max). I've been working on it on-and-off so I could keep better track of what pokemon forms I still need for it's completion.
After finishing the video, I love it. Easy to keep track of every thing, and I absolutely appreciate the amount of work you put into this just to help the community even further than you already have.
Thank you again for all the work you do in putting these videos and projects together!
The tutorial I didn’t know I needed
For real though
The tutorial I didn’t need (won’t by home premium or whatever) but watched anyway bc Austin john content is great
@@THEpicND same
Been delaying organizing the form dex, this makes me feel the courage to do so. Thanks for everything you do. 🎉
I’ve literally in the past couple of weeks started to sort through my home and get a living dex sorted. Gen’s 1 & 2 are complete and I’m up to gen 3. So this is going to be a BIG help. Thank you sir 🙌👏
Did you play them in order? Looking for some tips on starting a living dex for the first time
Same boat here, just started organizing it and got through first couple of gens.
OMG! The timing of this video is perfect.. I've been working on a pokeball-only, my OT only living dex for home. Thank you so much for this Austin ❤
Thank you for doing this. This would have been very useful when I started my region living form dex (I get every pokémon from its earliest possible game), so I’m glad people wanting to start this challenge now will be able to sort their mons a lot easier
Question. Are you putting different forms next to the standard (ex. Male and female Venusaur) or are you putting forms in separate boxes? I'm agonizing over this
@@tonybrewer7536 I put forms together with their base forms. I like looking at the pokemon together. The only downside is that when a new form is released you have to move all the other pokemon from that generation over. But that's something you only have to do once every few years. I also like putting the female pokemon first because numerically the female Nidoran line is before the male one.
@@tonybrewer7536 I do something similar to Austin John where I have my forms and gender variants together (ie Male Ratatta, Female Ratatta, Alolan Ratatta, Male Raticate, Female Raticate, Alolan Raticate). Only difference is that both Kantonian Ratattas and Raticates will be from Virtual Console Red and Blue while the Alolan Ratatta and Raticate are from Moon
Note that Home now tracks each game's pokedex too. So it is worth having a full SV live dex to transfer in if you want the Home dex to show a little crown next to that game.
After getting 8F in Red, I’m actually striving for all 151 shiny and OT. I may never get a complete shiny living national dex because that’s exhausting but the info to organize one’s collection no matter how complete you want to go is fantastic.
Wish I could send you a pic bro. I’m on that grind
Well. Time to start Red back up and work my way up from there. Thanks for this Austin.
This is the perfect video at the perfect time! I just started working on a complete living dex from all regions 💪🏼
I got my fill of finishing the dex back when it was only 150, but I really enjoyed listening to you talk about spreadsheets for 20 minutes. Thanks for working on and explaining tools that I know the pokemon community is going to love
You never cease to amaze us with your awareness Austin. Your work is greatly appreciated.
My guess for the update for SV compatibility is probably after the next 7 star raid (most likely Typhlosion)
This is an awesome resource - if I hadn't spent years already setting up my own one for working on my combined livingdex and shinydex I'd totally use this - thought I'd have to make a few modifications as I count battle bond greninja, own tempo rockruff and power construct zygarde as unique forms in mine.
Plus I have a whole section dedicated to unboxable forms for all the ones that have a dex entry but you cannot physically have in Pokemon home (So all your fusions, battle forms and held item triggered forms)
Have mine organised in another fashion but still good to use it for a better overview of what i still have to catch especially on the shiny side since my full form living dex for the normal ones is nearly complete. So: thank you very much Austin.
I’m partway through making my own list and I’m putting forms at the end of the gen they were added in for example all the alolan forms are between the Alolan and Galarian pokemon so I won’t have to move everything when new forms are added but this will still massively help just having everything in one place instead of having to check which mons have gender differences etc.
This is a great document. I've been doing my living form dex for a while now but because I love pain I'm also doing OT and every Pokemon has to be caught in its original region. It's a hell of a grind!
I have my Living Form Dex almost entirely complete, but I'm going to use this going forward as it is so much more clean and convenient! The only thing I would change is something to keep track of moves and abilities, but I'll probably just create another sheet on my copy to do that.
I've already got a full living dex in home, and I've got most of my home living form dex finished. All my special Pokemon, from distributions and stuff, and put in other boxes. And so are my shinies. It's nice to have the full thing!
This has to be one of the greatest gifts to the community. I wanted to ask if you had a doc to help organize but you're already one step ahead and provided a solution.
This is impressive and very cool. I prefer to have the forms separate but I'll definitely take a look at this
Thank you for the work on this man! Been waiting on this so I can re-organise my home dex, been working on living form dex and Shiny living form dex Lite for quite some time now.
Also, want to learn to spreadsheet like you, slowly getting better but going to dig into the sheet to see how it's all done behind the scenes 😂
Perfect choice of apparel worn for this recording because after watching this my mind is blown and you sir are a true CHAMPION
i've been waiting for this! I've been looking to drive myself mad and do a shiny living dex and this is exactly what i needed. Thank you for your work!
You got me all hype that Home integration was released! I set up my living dex differently but I respect your setup.
I have everything sorted by dex number then separate boxes for each region's forms then consecutive boxes for other various forms like Therians sorted by dex number
Same. I put the forms and such at the end of the standard dex, but having a guide like this is still pretty amazing.
i like to update mine every gen with new regionals and such next to the originals. It makes them feel more included in my eyes. But I'm NOT going to do a family-dex style. that's a nightmare to setup. I've done it before lol.
thank you for all the time and effort you put into these videos :) it is very much appreciated
I hate comments like these. This is literally his job, he gets money for doing this. He gets money by you watching his video and the ads.
@@2810Mad and still he could just upload some other stuff that takes way less work. Also whats wrong with shwoing/sharing some love and kindness?
@De'Gecko if he uploaded some other stuff that took way less work/time, people wouldn't find it as interesting and wouldn't watch it so he'd get less views and less money
@@2810Mad disagreed. We have many big UA-camr with trash content and 0 effort making lots of money. He could just make Vid showing his Home acc and say look how cool it is and done, he still would make good Money from that.
Also funny how u just ignored the second part of my comment. ;)
Wow, this man is AWESOME 🤩🤩🤩
He always knows what we need better than us ourselves 😂
I was always searching for such thing in the Internet. Finally, Austin gave us this document
THANK YOU VERY MUCH ❤
Thank you for doing this my dude! Really enjoyed utilizing it in it's beta version and stoked the rest of everyone gets to use it now! So awesome!
I recently got back into Pokémon and you sure don't help me getting out of it working on living shiny dex... I really appreciate the effort into that sheet
This is awesome. However, I like to sort all of my regional variants in their own box/Boxes. That way im future proofing for when they add new regional variants I don’t have to move every single pokemon so everything is in the right order. I just tack the new ones onto the end and I’m good. It’s a lot less work.
That’s how I do it as well. It’s much easier to have a box called Alola forms that it is to move a bunch of Pokémon around
Exactly how i did it too. One list for National Dex. Then separate boxes for regionals, sorted by that regions dex number. Separate box for Unowns. I havent bothered with forms or genders, because i honestly dont feel the need to do it.
I finished my bank living dex years ago and used an excel sheet to figure it out. I’ve been putting off a living dex in home but this will be a huge help! I’ll definitely try your sheet out and will have to start organizing home!
Thanks so much for everything you do for us. I appreciate it so much! You've helped me out with Breath of The Wild and the pokemon Games, you are just so helpful man, appreciate you!
As someone who's been going for a shiny living dex, thanks a lot for this!
This man has grown to be the most useful Nintendo channel out there. Crazy to think I started watching him around Sun and Moon.
Also working on my full living form dex and really enjoyed your video. I also keep track of what region they came from indicated by the small icon next to each mon; for example the pentagon for all Gen 6 mon. Please do an updated video when SV is added or if you make changes to the sheet, I'm definitely interested.
HEADS UP: Gholdengo and Wo-Chien have the same location number on the spreadsheet (Page 2, Box 20, Number 14, Row 3, Slot 2).
Thanks for all the hard work on this! I've been needing to sort my entire HOME for a while but it was always such a daunting task; this spreadsheet made it some much more simple!
12:40 The energy John brings to the table on Dudunsparce is so good
Small tip from my end: don't fill the boxes completely. I.a.w. start your next box after f.e. 20 entries. If you start a new box after the full 30 entries and game freak adds a new Meowth form, you have to move about 1000 Pokemon 1 spot. At the start i filled all boxes up till 20 Pokemon before moving to the next, so i had room left for cap Pikachu's, Hisuian Forms and Paldean forms without shifting all other Pokemons.
This is why i put mine differently. All in order by National Dex number. Then separate boxes for Regionals. Separate box for Unowns etc. That way you dont end up with number 151 in your list not being Mew etc. All personal preference. Also, there are there are 8.5 billion spindas so i gave up on forms lol
See, I have all of the different female gender forms, regional forms, etc etc in entirely separate boxes. I wonder if he is going to make a version of the document where you can have all of those Pokémon in a separate set of boxes from the main list of all the Pokémon.
I already have an organizational system for my pokemon home, but it's cool to see yours. Mine's just organizing by generation with the first two generations being grouped together (since I still have almost all of the games from Gen 3 onwards physically and the Gen 1 and 2 games on VC).
Still personally a bigger fan of the Serebii one, since alternate forms/genders are in a different area. I like that more since the pokedex number is always the spot in the box, as well as futureproofing for any future forms not shifting EVERYTHING over by 1...
BUT this is still by far the most detailed, and will be great as a freaking CRAZY good checklist for what I have, need to evolve, etc. Can't think of any way to make that element better. Great work!
Yea, would love a copy paste with all the extra alolan forms in the end. I don't wanna shift my entire collection to the right if we get a Alolan Nidoking.
Hopefully Pokemon Home will add functionality like "Start living dex" from x box, and it would automatically try to fill in the spots u have the pokemon for.
i just completed my own living dex 2 days ago, this will be super helpful once home hits SV! thank you so much
The only one I'm missing for my national dex in home is Diancie. Here's to hoping there's a event soon!
And hopefully a shiny event too. Remember folks Diancie is currently shiny locked. If you see any one offering a shiny Diancie, it's hacked. So do as you wish, just be careful.
Good thing I'm a try hard & like being the OT for my shinies🤣🤣
@@9Tailsfan actually diancie isnt shiny locked since there were shiny events of it before
i think you are mistaking it for hoopa and volcanion which are shiny licked
@@luccaaa5065 agreed, there are legit shiny diancies.
absolutely crazy that you've done this, and are helping out the community for free....*holding back tears*...thank you for this! proud to be a subscriber of this level of amazing content and resources
There should just be an autosort
Haven't organized my living dex in a bit and this came right on time. I'm pretty excited to go for the forms now. Haven't figured out where I'm putting my extra copies of some pokemon. I'll probably just put them in box 200.
I'm so glad I started doing this back in XY when it was way easier to set up.. I have a full regular living dex, but decided to put myself up to a full shiny living dex.
just the lovely spreadsheet is enough motivation for me to start this!!!
Bless. I was struggling with keeping the various forms straight in my HOME. This'll make life easier for both shiny and non-living form dex.
Im loving this doc. I have been catching EVERY pokemon from their original games for the past 2 years. As well as the forms and gender differences. Even the side games, pokemon box, ranch, etc. Im talking pokemon ranger manaphy egg, pokemon ranch mew and manaphy, pokemon box egg pokemon, colosseum and XD mons, plus many more. This is going to help otganize everything. Thanks to everyone who helps to this together. I might show off my collection on my stream and this doc will help organize all of my thoughts!
I've been working on a spreadsheet in Excel for the past month or so and Austin really came out here and just slapped me down with something better than I could have done myself. I may make a few modifications but hot diggity do I appreciate not having to work on my own anymore.
You are a crazy person. A beautiful, amazing, crazy person for doing this. Thank you so much!
i started my living dex in pokemon XY, i had everything + all forms and gender dimorphic ones and just mainted it in the next games, but from arceus and SV i got a bit lazy ngl so this is super helpful! now i can finish SV and arceus and know what i need to catch much easier :') plus my home is eh mostly organised, but i put forms/dimorphic ones in diff boxes together, perhaps ill leave them all together instead i quite like the way you do so thanks for this document!
Im doing my Living national by region (Kanto caught in gen 1 games, Johto gen 2 and so on) You a life saver with this thing!
I’m doing the same. It’s super hard (specifically the gender differences)
I'm currently working on mine. I'm not necessarily a fan of how regional forms are stored. Yes, their dex numbers are the same but I don't want the future me to have to go back and fix it if the new games get different region forms. But I do like this sheet and I've ready for mine organizish. Just gonna put the regional forms in with whatever generation they came in.
I'm proud to see Austin Shares my particularness on how I store my pokemon. Dudundunsparce drove me insaine thank you Austin.
I have been waiting for this video since you mentioned it. Love your work, so excited!!!! Thank you, thank you
Did my own some months ago but I was definitely inspired by your talking about this in the past!
Actually managed to discover this video today since I’m officially starting my living form dex this week. Playing all generations (and every remake due to the mobile challenges) mainly focusing on remakes for the dex challenge, but I myself have found this daunting. But I commend you for making this list, so now I can check who I need extras of at any point in time.
This video/doc is amazing! The dedication and patience that goes into creating this shows not just how passionate you are about Pokemon, but also how much you want to help others with that same passion. Great work Austin.
This is a great resource. I completed my own Living Dex recently, was super satisfying. Personally I went with the Pokémon coming from games with their origin region (Pikachu from a Kanto game, Totodile from a Johto game, etc.)
Just noticed you are already putting out updates to this. So good to see someone put something like this out and actually keeping up with it. I’m still trying to figure out the import feature, but this is so awesome. Thank you for this awesome tool!
This is what my crazy mind needed to figgier out which Pokémon I need for home! Thank you for this!
Slowly going through mine, but seeing the unown fit in one box was pretty satisfying
Thank you!! I just set out to complete a living dex a couple months ago so this is gonna be a huge help
Changing box at the start of a new gen is so simple but helpful. I didn't think of that.
Thank you so much for this! My HOME has been a mess since I transferred up all of my pokemon from Bank years ago, and I've never wanted to release any of them in case I wanted them in the future. But I'm going to go for a full living form dex, and release the rest (and keep any that are super good stats/my favorite mons). Having a lot of fun organizing everything!
Man, I’ve been playing Pokemon since Gen1 but always on emulators. This last year with the announcement of the eShop from DS closing I’ve bought a DS Lite, a 3DSXL and a Switch, got all the digital games that were available and I’ve been buying the physical ones. I was planning on doing an OT living dex on Home and I started completing the SV dex already. But bro, you did an awesome job, I was going to do a sheets like that to track everything but I could never done better than you, this one is simple amazing bro, tyvm for sharing it and spread the Pokemon collecting love ❤
I use a system where my forms are in their own boxes and female forms have their own boxes aswell but this seems like a very nice spreadsheet
That’s exactly what I do as well
Thanks for this Austin. Been waiting for and I love it. Had to make a simple one for S&V prep which I’m going to keep just for tracking marks and 6ivs.
I’ve been trying to copy this for almost a year now, I’ve been waiting to get the better version for so long thanks bro
I plan on using this for my Living Dex from only Switch games and Pokemon Go. Thanks for the spreadsheet!
Well, this blows the spreadsheet I've been working on out of the water by a long shot! I'm migrating all of my info over to your spreadsheet, thanks!
Man I'm so excited, I've been hoping to see your master spreadsheet ever since you first started mentioning it. Been trying to organize HOME off and on over the past 1.5 years and keep getting burnt out. I think this will be really helpful for finally finishing it out. ❤
Thanks for this! I’ve almost completed a living form Dex, just missing a few event Pokémon. The only thing different that I do is include later gen evolutions within the same family. For example, Scyther, Scizor, Kleavor in order or Magby, Magmar, Magmorter. And now I’ll include the paradox forms next to the original Pokémon!
I actually kind of my own version of this, but this is much, MUCH more extensive than I could ever hope to get! This is amazing!!
I was in the middle of making my own spreadsheet and fixing my home at the same time but this would help me a lot
I'm working on a living form Dex for each game and this is going to be a lot more useful to keep everything on track. Thanks 😁
Awesome content btw
Thank god I’ve been looking for a good way to sort my 3000 Pokémon I currently have in home thank you so much!!!
I’ve actually decided to go on a “quest” to have a complete mainline+Console Counterpart (XD Gale of Darkness for instance) collection, to play all of them and eventually create a complete Home Living Dex in a few years, with the goal of having a set team I take with me to each game and region, and have them obtain every single ribbon!
Austin, thank you for the amazing work you put into making this, and everything else (like the trading codes), you have no idea how much I and many others appreciate your effort, cheers fam!
This is exactly how I organized my pokemon home during the pandemic!
A point that I don't think you explained very much is that switching to a new box for each new generation makes it really easy to update just that one generation when a new form, etc. is added in a later game.
At the very end of my living dex I also have a box of pokemon with battle forms -- which right now is mostly the various special gigantimax forms, along with transforming darmantian and greninja
This is the one thing I need in my life that I have been begging for 😂😂😂 thank you John!!!!!
Last week I decided to restart my old Fire Red cartridge. Then I came across a tiktok with the idea of a Origin Living Form Dex, so yesterday I decided to go for it. You just made my life so much easier with this spreadsheet. Much appreciated.
The other day i sat down to start organizing my home but then i quit because it was confusing me but now i’m excited to get back to it!
Wow! This took so much work. I was just thinking I need to start organizing the mess I've got going in Pokemon Home. Thank you so much for sharing! :)
Austin John reminding me that OBSESSIVE CATALOGUING is what I have always loved best about Pokémon 😂 (even after 25 years of playing). Amazing resource, thank you!
I watched this video In April of this year, and after many dollars spent and over 500 hours of pokemon games played, I have completed the entire living form lite dex in HOME. Only using POGO stamped mons when absolutely necessary. Very glad I found this video to provide the guide for me, I will look into touching up the gender differences to go for the full version now
Great info! Even as someone doing an all-forms living SHINYdex it reminded me of some that I forgot to account for on the shinylocked side.
Hey Austin, don't know if you'll see this, but I wanted to thank you cause I'm currently at +90% and your videos helped me all the way! Stay awesome
thank you for this, champ! once i am done with my Pokemon Scarlet battle-ready living dex, I will be starting this battle-ready National Dex