'Pokemon Go' US player who has caught all characters gets sent abroad to catch region-specific monsters

The craze for “Pokemon Go” has led its players travelling across the land and searching far and wide on foot for Pokemon. While the game is relatively new, some extreme records have already been set.

Nick Johnson from the US has already caught all 142 Pokemon available in America and does not plan to stop there or anytime soon. He will be going on tour on different countries to catch even more Pokemon and could perhaps, someday, become the first person in the world to catch all available monsters, says a report in IGN.

His tour will be sponsored by Expedia and Mariott Rewards. Nick will be taking his girlfriend with him to Paris where he will be hunting down Mr. Mime. Next, they will head to Hong Kong and look for Farfetch’d. They also plan to go to Australia where Khangaskan is likely to be found.

When asked about how he does it, Johnson reveals that he does not even bother about third-party sites and three step tracking being taken down by Niantic. For his new journey, he says that he will be mainly relying on the "Pokemon Go" community’s support. Reddit appears to be his main arsenal for this hunt for Pokemon around the world.

Once he accomplishes his goal, he plans to head to Tokyo for a break; and maybe some last minute catching if necessary. That is when he will wrap up his worldwide hunt for Pokemon through Expedia’s viewfinder blog and on his Twitter account.

His worldwide trip, however, might not get him to catch some Pokemon as there are reportedly six of them that have never been found. Another report by IGN, however, reveals that somebody already owns an Articuno.

"Pokemon Go" player Kaitcovey reveals over a Facebook group that she is the first owner of Articuno. She however claims that she did not go on a search as extensive as that of Johnson, but was given to her by Niantic as a reward for reporting an issue with the game.

While her accomplishment could already be too good to be true for some, Eurogamer points out that her acquisition of the legendary Pokemon could also possibly be a result of a modification of the game’s data.