This Guy Is The First One To Catch All Pokémon Available In Pokémon GO. Here Is His Story!

The Pokémon GO fever is raging at an all-time high, with people all over the world pouring in with their experiences, tips, and tricks on the Internet. The Pokémon GO Reddit community is on fire, with a user grabbing loads of upvotes after he reached level 30 and bared it all.

And now, one user has come forward to say that he has caught ’em all. For real. This is not a drill!

Redditor ftb_hodor, real name Nick Johnson, put up a post saying I caught every Pokemon currently available in the United States. He also shared a screenshot, in case people accuse him of lying.

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Although there are 151 Pokémon in the first generation of the original release of the game, Pokémon GO has only 142 Pokémon in its roster, not counting the three legendary Pokémon Articuno, Zapdos, and Moltres, and the three region-special Pokémon Mr. Mime (Europe), Kangaskhan (Australia and New Zealand), and Farfetch’d (Asia).

 

A resident of Brooklyn, New York, Nick would leave work at 6-6:30 pm every day and then walk around Manhattan and Brooklyn for finding Pokémon.

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He says he would sometimes trek around for 8 hours, and the fitness app on his phone showed an average of 8 miles (12.8 km) walked per day. He needed a Porygon, which was the 141st Pokémon he needed, and he travelled to Jersey city for it, hitching an Uber and driving around.

 

He had to catch a little more than 4,500 Pokémon – 4,629 to be precise – to reach this milestone, and he says it wasn’t an easy journey.

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He says that he would reach home and just pass out, tired, on most days. The last pokémon he needed was an Omastar, and although he could’ve caught it in his neighbourhood, a 15-minute network outage caused him to lose it. He later evolved his Omanyte to complete the list.

He is now hoping to travel to the other regions to catch the region-specific Pokémon, and to be really the very best.


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