as I'm approaching my first super ascension (35k more ap points) I realized I belong on this thread cause taking years for the first SA must be a record ! And I am the holder of thus record,
New bonus: +1 slot Kept: Legendary AV, TW, SAC, A$B, ACampB, Epic HB and CB. Bonuses: +5 slots, +50% AP
Chucked another two Epics, which is sad. This should be the last time for that though. Two spare slots for Epics should allow me to alternate between +%AP and +1 slot, making a new Legendary every other SA without having to chuck Epics. I may take one more extra slot first before doing so as SAs are getting fast enough that digging for one Epic has become the bottleneck, and doing so would allow me to avoid that problem. A problem for future me to solve.
The difference having a HB makes is not to be underestimated. For SA6 I just didn't have one because RNG said no. For SA7 I carried over the Epic HB and that singlehandedly shaved 6 days off of my SA time (from 23 days down to 17 days to hit the AP requirement), which was substantially more impactful than I expected it to be.
Yea probably a reason why there's so few names is because not many people are active in the forum. In order to appear on the list I have to know that the player has super-ascended.
All of these people on the list reported their progress here in this thread, with 4 exceptions: PkmX reported on discord, Fizzer mentioned it on a stream, Zinthos tell me in Warzone Mail, and obviously myself.
I would venture a guess that there's probably roughly 10-100x more people that have SAed at least once than have posted in this thread. It should be possible to scrape every player profile to find whether they have the "SA once" achievement or not, although the player IDs don't seem to be densely packed, so it would take awhile (and Fizzer might ban you for that much traffic).