Pokémon Black Origin Dex

Run setup

• Version: Pokémon Black
• Platform: Nintendo DS
• Trainer: Psikik, ID 57101
• Status: Active, started 25 August 2026

This is the first run of the campaign and the largest single one in it, and all of
it is caught before Pokémon Bank closes on 25 February 2027 and the only route out
of a Nintendo DS closes with it.

Rules

• Catch targets whose species or form debuted in Unova.
• Everything caught here carries this trainer. Anything arriving from somebody
  else — a trade, a distribution — keeps theirs, and is recorded as such.
• Do not teach an HM to anything being kept. An HM move blocks Poké Transfer
  outright, and the Move Deleter is a trip.
• Hatch before transferring. Eggs cannot move at all.

What this save alone can give

Three are one per save, and the campaign needs more than one of each — the second
of each comes from black-2 or from White.

• Tornadus — Black-exclusive. Two are needed, one plain and one Therian.
• Reshiram — Black's mascot, despite the name. Two are needed.
• Kyurem — three are needed across the generation.

Five are triggered rather than caught. Victini is the good one: the Liberty
Pass is a key item, so it is caught at level 15 in Liberty Garden and is
genuinely this trainer's. Keldeo, Keldeo Resolute, Meloetta and
Genesect were distributed as finished Pokémon and will carry an event
trainer instead.

Transfers

Black reaches Pokémon Bank directly. Poké Transporter reads any Generation 5
cartridge and empties the first box, thirty at a time, with no waiting between
runs — the Poké Transfer Lab on Route 15 is for pulling from Generation 4 and is
not involved here.

Boxes go across as they fill rather than waiting for the end. A box still on the
cartridge in February is a box lost.

Progress

The page tracks the whole origin dex and this save's share separately. Needed
per week and pace measure the overall campaign; pace needs catches more than a
week apart before it means anything. Both views are preserved as a snapshot when
the run is completed. The still-to-catch list reads the current dex, so recorded
catches disappear even before the run plan is regenerated.

Journal