Purifying 1000 Pokemon

Quite a while back, I mentioned how I defeated an absolute ton of Team Rocket grunts. I did this for two reasons: one, it was fun, and two, I wanted the platinum medal for defeating grunts. At the time though, I also mentioned how I needed to complete the Purification badge as well, but that would be a long, dull journey. Well, finally, over two years later, I managed to get the platinum medal for purifying Pokemon. And boy, did it take a while. But I finally did it. I now have the platinum Purifier medal. I have purified 1000 Pokemon.

No real tactics

Honestly, I could have finished this way sooner if I’d just purified everything. But I didn’t want to do that, because a bunch of Pokemon cost 5k stardust to purify. And, frankly, I’m not wasting 5k of stardust just to purify a Pokemon that I will most likely throw away. So most of the Pokemon I transferred were 1k Pokemon, with the occasional 3k Pokemon if I had a surplus of stardust. And I’d only purify Pokemon I have plenty of candy for. Then again, most shadow Pokemon aren’t exactly that useful.

I’d also go on phases of purification. Sometimes I’d just delete everything that wasn’t a 1k Pokemon. Other times I’d do both 1k and 3k Pokemon. It was mostly on a whim, with no real game plan or anything. Just purifying things whenever I fancied it.

On the plus side though, I never have to purify a Pokemon again. I can check them, see their stats and immediately delete them if they are crap. That being said, I might still purify a Pokemon if it’ll be a 4* after being purified. Of course, I wouldn’t purify another Larvita or Beldum, but if it’s something like Teddiursa or Bellsprout or any Pokemon I probably won’t ever use, then, well, screw it. I’d rather have a hundo purified Pokemon than bother with a 90-ish IVs Shadow Pokemon that I’ll never actually use. Because, let’s face it, Shadow Aggron just isn’t a thing, but a 100% Mega Aggron is briefly a thing until we get Mega Metagross.

Was it worth it?

Absolutely not. I did all that for the medal and one extra Pokeball when fighting Team Rocket. Which is fine and all, but I only ever lost one Pokemon from a Team Rocket fight. And it was a Zubat right when Shadow Pokemon came out. I had like 5 Pokeballs back then (because everything was brand new) and Shadow Pokemon were genuinely harder to catch, as well as being insanely aggressive. Catching a Shadow Pokemon today is way easier, especially if you have all the gold medals for catching each type of Pokemon. Also, having got all the Team Rocket medals and type medals makes catching a lot easier.

But I kinda felt I had to do this medal at some point. After all, I was getting tired of that one gold medal. Frankly, I’d already burned through over a million stardust on these Pokemon, I might as well finish the job.