{"id":10875,"date":"2024-10-28T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10875"},"modified":"2024-10-28T10:07:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T15:07:24","slug":"the-price-of-mastery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/?p=10875","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Mastery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This weekend I finally completed the pok\u00e9dex in Pok\u00e9Doku<\/strong><\/a>. It took me 268 days of play to do so, and you could even shave 20-30 days off there since the dex feature wasn’t even added until I’d already been playing for a while. So that’s not too bad!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Of course, the question now is: what comes next?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, more Pok\u00e9Doku, of course. A couple months back, shinies were added into the game. If you’re not a pok\u00e9maniac like me, shinies are pok\u00e9mon that are a different colour than usual and have a 1\/8192 chance of appearing. Or, that’s their odds in the real Pok\u00e9mon games, anyway. In Pok\u00e9Doku, there’s a 1% chance of a pok\u00e9mon being shiny, which is way<\/em> more likely. Still absurdly rare, but not mind-bogglingly so.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’ve never really been a shiny hunter in any pok\u00e9mon game. My very first natural shiny was a Sunkern<\/a> in Pok\u00e9mon Soul Silver<\/strong>, which was not terribly exciting. I did try to hunt another one in Pok\u00e9mon Alpha Sapphire<\/strong> years later, but never found one. I participate in community days in Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/strong> to take advantage of the boosted shiny odds for the pok\u00e9mon highlighted on those days, but don’t really put much more effort into it than that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Anyway, what I’m trying to say is that I don’t really intend on trying to complete the shiny pok\u00e9dex in Pok\u00e9Doku. At least, that’s what I thought when the feature was first added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Roughly a week before I finally completed the Pok\u00e9Doku dex, another new feature was added: a prestige system. So now, once you’ve completed your dex, you can wipe it all and start fresh. I thought it was a silly feature, but still kind of helpful to add that extra challenge layer of not just choosing the same pok\u00e9mon all the time. Then I prestiged and learned that doing so boosts your shiny odds by 25%. Which really just means that it goes from 1% to 1.25%, but hey, that’s something! And you can prestige three times, which will ultimately bump up your chance of finding a shiny pok\u00e9mon to 2%. And<\/em> and, when you prestige, shinies aren’t wiped from your dex, so in theory your next “run” will be easier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’ll still be a hella long road to the end, but I was planning to keep playing every day anyway, and at least now there’s going to be something to work toward for a good long while. Pok\u00e9Doku at its core is a lot of fun, even without all that extra collection fluff, so I’m glad to open it up every day during my morning constitutional.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s also worth noting that I’ve only been talking about the daily mode. At some point, a separate dex was added for unlimited mode, which comes with its own shiny collection and a slightly altered prestige system. So one could conceivably sit there all day and grind out an entire pok\u00e9dex if they so choose. It won’t be me (playing one puzzle a day keeps it exciting), but one<\/em> could.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend I finally completed the pok\u00e9dex in Pok\u00e9Doku. It took me 268 days of play to do so, and you could even shave 20-30 days off there since the dex feature wasn’t even added until I’d already been playing for a while. So that’s not too bad! Of course, the question now is: what … Continue reading The Price of Mastery<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pokemon","category-video-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10875"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10880,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10875\/revisions\/10880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/torrentialequilibrium.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}