Pokémon Go trainer catches them all and completes the Pokédex in the US

A Reddit user has captured 142 Pokémon in the smartphone app
Pokemon master: Reddit user Nick Johnson has 'completed' Pokemon GO in North America
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Ben Travis22 July 2016

If the aim of Pokémon GO is, as the old theme tune goes, to be the very best like no-one ever was, it seems an American player has already achieved that goal.

Reddit user Nick Johnson, who goes by the username ftb_hodor, claims to have caught all 142 pocket monsters available in North America, becoming perhaps the first person to effectively complete the game.

Johnson uploaded a screenshot of the app showing that he had seen and caught 142 Pokémon and logged them all in the Pokedex.

Speaking to Business Insider, he revealed that he caught the creatures around Manhattan and Brooklyn, citing Battery Park and Grand Army Plaza in Central Park as the best places to hunt.

Johnson explained that he would venture out after work each evening and walk around the city for an average of 8 miles per day. The furthest he had to travel was to Jersey City to collect Porygon.

The search for the 142 Pokémon saw Johnson travel over 95 miles, catching 4269 monsters and hatching 303 eggs.

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However, while he has caught every US Pokémon, Johnson still has three left to catch – with Mr Mime, Kangaskhan, and Farfetch’d only being available in Europe, Australia and New Zealand, and Asia respectively.

With 151 original Pokemon from the first generation of the game, it is currently unknown whether Ditto, Mew, Mewtwo, and the legendary birds Articuno, Zapdos and Moltres are available in the app in any region.

Even if you can’t be the very first person to manage it, that’s certainly some Pokemon GO inspiration to head out and catch ‘em all this weekend.

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