The first Pokemon I ever trained to level 100 was not my first starter, or even in my first Pokemon game. Technically, it wasn't even mine: it was a Kingler that my friend had caught in a copy of Pokemon LeafGreen that he'd given me early in the story. That Kingler led my team through Victory Road and past the Elite Four, into Cerulean Cave to face Mewtwo, and then to FireRed and LeafGreen's endgame on the mysterious Sevii islands.
Making my way through this archipelago of seven islands was slow work. I was held up not only by the need to fill out my National Pokedex by catching the many Gen 2 Pokemon that lived across the islands, but also by having to bust out the Braille skills I'd honed in the mainline third-generation Pokemon games. Finally, I made my way to the southernmost tip of Seven Island, the very edge of this updated section of Kanto.
