>>59018106it was weird actually. first, i got most of the main patterns doing the go postcard method in sv, which took a couple of weeks to get postcards from everywhere and send them to sv.
then i found out 3ds regions didnt work how i thought they did so i was actually able to get them all in XY (im doing a living dex where i want all the mons to have a met region that matches where they were introduced), so i did that, but that only took an afternoon
getting a hold of the poke ball pattern took a couple of months of trawling various discords, reddits, etc. to find someone with one theyd be willing to trade. i was doing that concurrently to everything else, but it was still the last one