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Champion rank is the longest grind. Once you've gotten most of the general canon dex entries and legendaries, there are likely several groups of pokemon you still need to dex!

You've likely summoned several legendary pokemon by now, but if you haven't unlocked all of the summon items yet, you'll want to work on that! Once you've unlocked all of the other summons, you'll unlock Arceus, and then you can rest (well, relatively). Make sure to check if a legendary has a special form you might need a second summon item for before you sell any extra summon items you may find. Some Legendaries also have special form-changing held items, many of which can be bought with tokens from weekly tournaments.

Totems take some time, but are relatively easy to get. You need to collect the totem stickers from each scour area with the pokemon to be Totemed, so you can just incorporate a pokemon for each totem form into your scour rotation. The same method is used for upgrading Zygarde!

This will take a while and likely a fair amount of Credits. Mega stones can be rarely found in scour boxes, so you'll get a decent number that way. They can also be obtained via Mega Vouchers, which can be purchased for tokens obtained from weekly tournaments. If you don't have the patience for collecting tokens, you can save up Credits and buy Mega Stones or Vouchers directly in the Market.

After the first Ultrabeast, unlocked by bringing both Solgaleo and Lunala to the Aether House, each subsequent one will cost around 1,000,000 Credits (less if you utilize Credit Discount days). You can order an egg for any unlocked Ultrabeast from the Supplier, and once it's delivered, you can trade the egg in for the next Ultrabeast you need. Keep doing this as you have the funds, and eventually you'll get all of them (and unlock Necrozma and Type: Null in the process).

Pokefarm Exclusives can be obtained by participating in weekly tournaments and trading in tokens for the egg. After the first egg has been obtained/unlocked, you can buy more using GP. Exclusives from older seasons only cost 1 token each, so if you get the full 5 tokens from each weekly tournament, you'll be able to unlock 5 exclusives per week with them! This takes some time, but isn't particularly difficult if you're participating in site events. Once you get caught up to the current and recent seasons, the exclusives will cost more tokens. If you're still actively dexing other pokemon and not waiting on just the new season's exclusives to finish your dex, you may want to wait to get them until the next season, when they'll be cheaper, and use your tokens for other things (like Mega Stone Vouchers)

There are several variant pokemon you can find and breed for. Many of them have specific breeding methods to obtain by using canon pokemon in certain combinations or holding certain items. Some variants do not have breeding methods other than using the variant parents themselves. Variant and Exclusive eggs do not go to the shelter. You'll have to keep an eye out for the variant pokemon themselves and snatch them up as you find them, or find someone selling/trading them and get one/two from them, and then breed the egg yourself.

Champion rank is the longest grind. By now, you may have completed your egg dex, and have likely completed a few regional dexes! But you still have a few pokemon and quite a few forms to obtain...

Collecting Arceus plates is surprisingly the easiest part of this section. You just need to have summoned Arceus to start finding them! You can find plates in boxes, and people sell them in the market for usually reasonable prices. Work on collecting one at a time and you'll eventually get all of them.

This is by far the largest Mega Tier, and the most expensive. You can find these stones from scour boxes, but you'll probably have to buy the last few you want directly. Compare what people are selling the stone itself for to what people are selling the Mega Voucher 5 for. The latter might be cheaper. You can also wait to save up more tokens for Vouchers, too, if you have the patience.

Now we're getting to the last few dexes. Meteorite shards can be created by giving a Deoxys EV trained in Attack, Defense, or Speed (respectively) a Meteorite. One Meteorite only makes one meteorite shard, so you'll need FOUR meteorites for all of your dexing: One for mega-Rayquaza, and 3 for the shards. You can get a meteorite with a Mega Voucher 4, which is probably your cheapest option, especially if you have the patience to save up the tokens. You can also get Reset Bags for the dojo using Tokens, so you only need one Deoxys, EV trained three separate times.

A bit of a grind to get. You need Z-crystal shards for this, 3 each. You can get these either by participating in monthly type-races, or by buying them from the Market. Keep an eye on prices and snag the ones you need when the prices drop.

Honestly, Silvally's memories are harder to get than the Arceus Plates. You need one Normal and 4 of the respective type Flawless Gems for each memory. You can only make Flawless Gems yourself if you have a Wishalloy-level Wishforge Badge, which takes more work than I've done for any of mine so far. Start saving your Credits. Buying Flawless Gems from the market is probably your best bet here, and make one memory at a time as you snag the gems.

Yeah, this gets its own section. To fully upgrade the Saiyan Rattata line, you need 3 of these. You *can* find them in scour boxes if you're exceptionally lucky, but otherwise, you'll probably need to save up tokens or a lot of Credits.