Story time!
> D/P comes out
> 13 years old, 8th grade
> "I've been playing for years, no strategy guide this time"
> get stuck before Dialga climb
>thisishard.jpg
> autist in my class ARs master balls and healing items for me
> breeze through the rest
I then worked in the dex, catching everything in-game with master balls.
I didn't have emerald, so I played through Ruby and Sapphire again to get all the legendaries and those goddamn Clamperl items.
100% on Colloseum plus Mt Battle for Ho-Oh
Purified Lugia on Gale of Darkness, 3 more times through Mt Battle for those Johto starters.
> dex complete, crowning achievement
Those balls are my constant shame, yet completing the dex will never require that much work again. I will never redeem myself.