Six to go.
That's some serious pokeccomplishment. There's not much left to do, and once I get these last few, I will have officially completed my ultimate goal. This is not unlike finishing the catalog in Animal Crossing, except this is actually doable.
More success on the GTS. Even today, gang, you throw up a Turtwig, Chimchar or Piplup, and you are almost guaranteed to get what you want. I traded thusly for an Ekans, Pineco, Gligar, Tauros, Smeargle and, hilariously, a Lugia.
So what's left? Gliscar, which should be an easy evolution. Lickilicky, Forretress, same story.
Last night I went looking in Sapphire for an old Combusken to Pal Park over. Couldn't find it. I knew I had one somewhere, because I remember bringing it over from Ruby. Then I remembered; I left it in the daycare a long time ago, hoping to breed a couple Torchics. Although back then, I didn't know much about pairing pokemon, so I dropped a male Combusken in with a female Torkoal. The resultant egg was a baby Torkoal. Yawn.
The big one - and I did not see this coming - was the Sunflora. You get a Sunflora after using a Sun Stone on a Sunkern, and I did not have a Sun Stone.
Sun Stones can be found in the underground, and are occasionally held by wild Solrocks. You can guess what the word "occasionally" means in the Pokemon world: never. I scrounged up a bunch of empty-handed Solrocks before I gave up on that idea.
The underground was also a strikeout. I guess if I did another few hours of dedicated underground digging, I may turn one up. Remember, I have Pearl... I think Sun Stones are rarer in Pearl.
Apparently you can get a Sunflora out of Pokemon Colosseum for GameCube, which I do own. But forget that. Those game sucked.
And you get a Sun Stone in Sapphire (at the Space Center) but I checked and I must have already used that particular Sun Stone. Most likely to evolve out a Bellossom.
Clark is still pacing in his Ruby game... is it worth me taking over his Ruby just to advance the story up to the point at which I could find a Sun Stone? Not hardly.
So I IMed my sister one night, to see if she had one. She helped me out before, and she is not at all concerned with catching 'em all. Here's the conversation.
Her: OK, I'll check.
Her: One moment.
...
Her: I have 4.
Me: !!!!!!!!
Me: How in fuck?
Her: But I think I'll need all four..... ;)
Me: Sun Stone.
Her: yes
Me: !@!@^&!!?!
Her: A peculiar stone that makes certain species of Pokemon evolve. It is as red as the sun.
Me: Yes, yes, I need it to make Sunkern evolve into Sunflora.
Me: Did you dig them all in the underground?
Her: Probably.
So she graciously gave me one of her four Sun Stones (and a Weedle) so I can get that awful, junky Sunflora. What a game.
