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I have a Latias, suicune, ditto (although I dunno if that counts because it was traded), jirachi, gyarados (that was the lake of rage shiny, so I don't know if that counts either), and a castform. Although the next pokemon I'm gonna hunt for is a charmander (there's a guy who gives you one in celedon I think).
Next up is Gastly. I'm in the Pokemon Tower with a lure and a Zubat chain of 65-ish that I'd started in Rock Tunnel to level up my Psycduck now.
I did score a shiny Zubat as well. I'll take a picture later tonight.
After shiny Venonat I moved to Route 14 to horde hunt for Ekans. After 9 shiny Bellsprout and 4 shiny Skorupi I found shiny Ekans. It appeared at 237 hordes after the last Bellsprout. In total I saw 483 Ekans hordes. I really like the fact in XY you can stay on a route forever in clear weather and it won't start raining unless you turn the game off or go in a building. Instead of healing at a Pokemon center I relied on potions to heal.
I've been playing Moon for the past several days. I've finished two trials.
There I was just strolling out of the little junkyard area where I obtained the Sleep Talk TM on route 6, I'm frustrated out of my skull because my Eevee refuses to evolve into an Espeon and BAM, totally random shiny Mudbray pops up. Not as an SOS but as the initial encounter!
I don't remember when I last posted here, but the list of shinies I've caught is a very long one, so I'm just going to list the ones I've gotten in the last month:
Still working on Shiny Gastly in LGE but have been occupied in Moon.
I started to soft reset for shiny Lunala last night but then it dawned on me to check for a shiny lock and sure enough Google seems adement that there is one. Damn it! Shiny Lunala is badass beautiful!
Would it be wrong if I hacked it shiny via Powersaves under these circumstances?
I ended up doing so for a shiny Rowlet after spending the around two years since I received the game for Christmas soft resetting for it with no success and a handful of botched attempts that might have been successes (dropping the 3DS and letting the battery die).
I'm not even exaggerating that length of time. I figured I'd earned the right after that, it's far more than a respectable legit attempt.
Donkeyote, however, who is now a badass level 56 Mudsdale is 100% legit, I assure you hence why I shared him here and not my shiny Rowlet.
Mudbray is NOT a Pokemon I was even interested in using until I found this shiny one and even then was NOT expecting how useful he'd become.
(I'd thought about changing his name when I realized that when Mudbray evolves he becomes a horse but couldn't bring myself to).
On cartridge I've generally preferred to remain legit and save all the hacking for ROMs. It's not my fault that the Shiny Rowlet line is just so gorgrous that I borderline can't stand the regular.
I recently found a female shiny Riolu in Friend Safari. I recently found 8 Throh and 3 Meinfoo in this FS looking for it. I used cute charm recently in order to find less Throh was surprised to find the shiny be female.
AAAAH! I got a shiny Rattata in Let's Go Eevee! I gave up on soft-resetting for the gift Charmander and decided to chain one, but I found this instead! I called him Dove, because that's the name of a color a rat can be. I'm not gonna evolve him - shiny Raticate is less striking, and Let's Go is the game for making weak Pokemon into powerhouses. (Especially with all the candy I accumulate doing these chains.) Oh! And not only is Dove shiny, he's also tiny - 9 inches! What a rare and precious little critter! 😘
(I think I'll put off starting another Charmander chain until I get to Rock Tunnel.)
It's been awhile since I've given an update regarding my shiny hunting and I've had a couple of decent successes.
My first was a shiny Tailow I finally managed to encountered via Dexnav in Omega Ruby, shiny Swellow really looks amazing ??????
My second was a shiny Sandygast, a shiny I've really wanted for awhile, the deep black sand is such an amazing design and the amount of Sand-Attacks my team had to endure in the SOS chain process made me so grateful I finally succeeded in capturing one
Hahahahahaha, it's been a while since my last one! :laugh-squinted: This shiny Boldore came today at 3:46 PM on encounter #9782 (since I found Mawile), and #54864 overall since I started hunting in Challenger's Cave for Sableye. This second Boldore is my sixth shiny of the hunt, joining two Woobat, a Graveler, my first shiny Boldore, and a Mawile! Let's see if Sableye shines soon or if he keeps throwing these decoy shinies at me, "lol!" :pink_laugh:
Upon encountering it, I immediately switched to my Damp Quagsire (I don't know whether Boldore knows Selfdestruct/Explosion at this level, "lol!") and proceeded to capture the shiny Boldore on my first Dusk Ball attempt.
It took me a while to figure out how to do the quotes with PC's new format, but I think I got it! :laugh:
You're the first I've ever seen refer to Oshawott's "scalchop" as its chest. I suppose the shell is part of its body, though!
Thanks! Congrats on your newbies, too (and for making CotM), and good luck going forward!
Not all ammonoid fossils are that tiny. While some specimens are even smaller than mine, some exceed 5 feet in diameter! The largest I have is about 2.5" (excluding the matrix), but I got that one on eBay. I reckon we've just got these little guys in my general area.
G-Money: the man whose knowledge of biology is so bad, many mistake it as contempt for the field itself! :pink_laugh: You have no idea how long I was laughing out loud irl when I read your post, haha!!!
Thanks for the info on the ammonoid fossils - that's really cool! A 5-foot diameter sounds enormous for that type of creature, hahaha!
I have a Latias, suicune, ditto (although I dunno if that counts because it was traded), jirachi, gyarados (that was the lake of rage shiny, so I don't know if that counts either), and a castform. Although the next pokemon I'm gonna hunt for is a charmander (there's a guy who gives you one in celedon I think).
That's an awesome shiny collection, TOKZK! Latias is irrefutably one of the coolest shinies ever, and it's super awesome that you have one!!! :boogie: Huge congrats on the Gengar and I hope you get shiny Charmander soon! 😊
After 9 shiny Bellsprout and 4 shiny Skorupi I found shiny Ekans. It appeared at 237 hordes after the last Bellsprout. In total I saw 483 Ekans hordes.
Congrats on all those new shinies, Maserati!!! I was just thinking about how many Phases I've gone through trying to get that shiny Sableye, and here you got 9 shiny Bellsprout and 4 shiny Skorupi before getting your Ekans, "lol!" Huge congrats on the dedication and perseverance to stick with the hunt!!!
I don't remember when I last posted here, but the list of shinies I've caught is a very long one, so I'm just going to list the ones I've gotten in the last month:
AAAAH! I got a shiny Rattata in Let's Go Eevee! I gave up on soft-resetting for the gift Charmander and decided to chain one, but I found this instead! I called him Dove, because that's the name of a color a rat can be. I'm not gonna evolve him - shiny Raticate is less striking, and Let's Go is the game for making weak Pokemon into powerhouses. (Especially with all the candy I accumulate doing these chains.) Oh! And not only is Dove shiny, he's also tiny - 9 inches! What a rare and precious little critter! 😘
(I think I'll put off starting another Charmander chain until I get to Rock Tunnel.)
a shiny Tailow I finally managed to encountered via Dexnav in Omega Ruby, shiny Swellow really looks amazing ������
My second was a shiny Sandygast, a shiny I've really wanted for awhile, the deep black sand is such an amazing design and the amount of Sand-Attacks my team had to endure in the SOS chain process made me so grateful I finally succeeded in capturing one
Major congrats on the new shinies - especially Sandygast!! Of the ones I've seen, Sandygast is my fav GenVII shiny, and I've actually hatched like 4,000 eggs trying to get one, "lol!" It's totes my first target for when I get to GenVII hunting! Enjoy the black sand before I steal it, MWAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :laugh:
As for my hunts right now, I'm still focusing on hatching for Fennekin in X, SRing for Tepig in White 2, encountering for Sableye in Black, and occasionally hatching for Sandygast in Moon. I'd also really like to start up another SR hunt in Pearl! But I need to beat the Elite Four first, which isn't going to be so easy...I lost my starter again!!! 😱
"lol" so the story of this one is pretty awesome. I had hatched an enormous number of Fennekin eggs, and sometimes I would get scared that I accidentally missed a shiny in one of my boxes before I'd do the "mass release" of stopping and releasing all of my hatched Fennekin once I ran out of box space. I realized after a couple of iterations that it's much, much faster just to check the Pokédex to see if any of my Fennekin have been shiny - the Pokédex in X tells you if you've seen a shiny form of that Pokémon, and checking that is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay faster than going through hundreds of Fennekin in my Boxes and verifying to make sure that each individual specimen was non-shiny.
When I filled up my last Box tonight, I checked my Pokédex just to make sure it would be safe to do a mass release, and my 'dex said I'd caught a shiny Fennekin!!!! :laugh-squinted: So I had a good ol' fashioned Box Hunt!!!! I don't think I've found a shiny by looking through my Boxes since I discovered my original shiny, Electrode, all the way back in 2006, "lol!"!!!!!!!! :laugh: I went through my Boxes, and sure enough, a beautiful gray Fennekin was hiding out in Box 23, slot 13! I must have totally missed it when it hatched, hahaha!! I'm pretty much always dual-hunting (usually SRing for Tepig alongside Fennekin!) and usually reading an article or listening to music while I hatch, so I didn't even know that I had hatched a shiny, "lol!" The Summary Screen says that I both received and hatched my shiny Fennekin on August 7th, so luckily I only spent one extra day hunting for an additional 109 eggs hatched (August 7th was just yesterday!!). I'm really glad that I started checking the Pokédex "Forms Seen" page before doing my mass releases, hahahahahahaha!!!! :pink_laugh:
The parentally-held Everstone ensured a Modest Nature, and it has flawless IVs in HP, Defense, Sp. Attack, and Speed!! What a Pokémon, haha!! :boogie: This is my first starter of the Kalos trio, and it was well worth the wait!! I had no idea what shiny Fennekin looked like before this, and I was shocked at how strikingly beautiful its coat is! It came on egg #7093, although I hatched an additional 109 eggs before I realized that I had a shiny on my hands, haha! I also accidentally SRed after hatching somewhere around 60 eggs towards the beginning (I was SRing on my other DS and just did it mechanically, "lol!" :laugh: ), so I ended up with about 7262 Fennekin hatched overall. I had also seen 3 Fennekin while SRing for Froakie on Y many years ago, so my shiny really came on #7096 and I ended up seeing 7265 overall!
Now to release all those other boxed Fennies and go after Chespin! :pink_boogie:
EDIT: "lol" both of the Fennekin parents were level 100, haha! :laugh:
EDIT 8/15: OMG SHINY HEATRAN!!!!!!!!!!!
"lol" so I finally beat the Elite Four in Pearl, and I decided to go after a shiny legendary to complete the Palkia "line" in my signature, just as Giratina completed the Dialga line. But first I needed to get the National Dex, and I didn't want to unleash Mesprit, since that would preclude the possibility of ever hunting for one in Pearl in the future. So I decided to trade over the one from Diamond to complete the 'dex and leave Pearl's Mesprit as a possible future target, but...I had never caught the Mesprit in Diamond!! I had unleashed it way back in 2007 to get the National Dex, but I had never managed to actually capture it, "lol!" It took me many days to find it (I caught Cresselia, too! Both of them had been wandering Sinnoh these past 12 years, "lol!"), and I actually ran out of Luxury Balls, Ultra Balls, and Premier Balls, so I had to beat the Elite Four in Diamond again to raise money to buy more Ultra Balls, hahaha! :laugh-squinted:
I eventually got Mesprit and traded with Pearl to get the National Dex, and then I started SRing for Heatran. Before SRing on encounter #2663, I noticed that Heatran's red was brighter than usual!! I wasn't sure for sure if it was a shiny or not at first, but when it popped out of my first Ultra Ball attempt, I got to see the sparkle!! I was right about it being a brighter red after all, hahaha! :pink_boogie: I found it at 9:40 PM tonight, and it sure put up one heck of a fight - the battle lasted 8-9 minutes, and it took 18 Ultra Balls to catch!! I switched to Finn, my trusty Lumineon, on Turn 1 and used Surf (I had tested it a bunch of times during my first SRs and found that Finn's Surf got Heatran to pretty close to 1 HP around 9 out of 10 times, and there was about a 10% risk of fainting it, "lol"), and then I started the Ultra Ball chucking.
I named her Olympomona, after the Martian volcano Olympus Mons. I used this shiny to revive my starter, and I've honestly lost count of how many times I've done that now, hahahhaaa! :laugh:
Congrats on the Shiny Heatran and finding that hidden Shiny Fennekin!
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I hadn't found any Shinies in over four months, but I chanced upon this in Emerald's Safari Zone yesterday! :D
My first Shiny Oddish and second Shiny ever in Emerald! I named her Maya after mayapples (aka American/wild mandrakes), nodding to Oddish's mandrake origin, and evolved her into Bellossom. I knocked out the Sp. Atk training in Emerald and traded her to LeafGreen for Speed training and topping off her level, still hoping for a full-odds Shiny Yanma (or Slowpoke) in the process. (I also wouldn't turn down a second Shiny Meowth/Persian to transfer to my Gen. 4 team.)
It's been forever since I've been on the Pokecommunity, let alone this forum (I probably still have my cringe signature lol). Hope everyone is doing well, and a big congratulations to the people who have obtained shinies since my last post (there's a lot of you I trust) and welcome to all the new members who've joined since.
Feel like I should do a rejoin post so here's my list of shinies obtained:
(Not sure if Go shinies count, I don't really hunt on there but thought they were worth noting)
Currently double hunting in Berry Forest on Fire Red and Route 37 in Heart Gold at 500 encounters apiece, going for anything on the route as I love them all, would be nice to reclaim my lost Pidgey though. I'll try my best to hunt as much as possible but I'm starting uni soon, so I'll do what I can, but will definitely try and be more active on here <3
Know I've done 2 replies in a row, so hoping this isn't spam. Yesterday, after 7143 encounters across my Heart Gold and Fire Red, I reclaimed my shiny pidgey! It appeared on Heart Gold which is fitting as my lost Pidgey was on a Heart Gold hack. It honestly looks so much better on my screen than it did on camera or when I've searched its sprites. Onto my next hunt: I'm resuming my hunt for Turtwig on Platinum, currently at 2100 SRs, and alongside it (cause I love double hunting now) I'm restarting my Fire Red and am going to hunt for each of the Kanto starters. Good luck on your hunts guys!
Video (used a link as for some reason embedding doesn't want to work :/):
Hahahahahhahaha, I bet if you'd bet on what shiny G-Money would find next after Heatran, nobody would've guessed Purugly - myself included!! :laugh:
Haha, so I'd been hunting Tepig and Chespin pretty much every day for the past few weeks, but yesterday I decided to try something new - I'd hunt for some swarming Pokémon in Pearl! I still had 20 fainted Pokémon from my Nuzlocke, so I'd have to gets lots of shinies to revive them all, "lol!" I figured the swarms were as good a place as any to hunt, since they provide really cool Pokémon that I really like, and many of them are super-rare or difficult to hunt in other games! And it gives me a chance to pick up some other Sinnoh shinies via Axiom 22 while I'm on these swarm hunts, so it's a win-win all around! :laugh-squinted:
Yesterday I checked the swarm for the first time, and it was Farfetch'd. I hunted like all day and got up to 1051 encounters on the route, and then today's swarm was Skitty on Route 222. I remember Skitty being ridiculously rare from my Nincada hunt, where it was like 5% or something like that. On the Nincada route in Hoenn, the Pokémon that you could find were Zigzagoon, Taillow, Whismur, Nincada, and Skitty. I ended up with 2 shiny Zigzagoon, 4 (!!!!) shiny Taillow, and my shiny Nincada, plus I ended up getting a shiny Whismur from the cave next door. I managed to find a whole slew of shinies on that route, yet that elusive Skitty was the one who evaded me (which was totally fine with me, being a Ghost-hunter and all! :pink_wink: ).
But when today's swarm turned out to be Skitty, I thought it'd be a great opportunity to go after that super-clandestine cat that had proven to be even more hard to find than Nincada! Much to my surprise, after 531 encounters today, a cat did show up to shine - but it was Purugly!!!!! :bigo:
"lol" I totally wasn't expecting this at all, haha! :boogie: I found a shiny on just encounter #1582 of my swarm hunt! It seems like all of my Pearl shinies have been been super, super quick to appear - they all seem to be well under the 8192 expectation!! :happy2:
Purugly appeared around 6:45 PM today. I caught him on the second Ultra Ball attempt and named him Wallace. This was a really, really fun way to hunt (OMG I LOVE GENIV GRAPHICS!!!! :pink_laugh: ), so I think I'm going to continue with some more Pearl swarm hunting! I still have 19 Pokémon to revive from that Nuzlocke, haha!
I used Wallace to bring back Mira the Tentacool, who had the unfortunate predicament of holding the Exp. Share. She fainted before I even got to the 7th gym, so it made the last portion of the game quite a challenge indeed! :laugh-squinted:
Also, Wallace was holding a Cheri Berry, which was pretty cool. It's rare enough to get a shiny, but a shiny holding an item??? Far out.
Congrats on the Shiny Heatran and finding that hidden Shiny Fennekin!
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I hadn't found any Shinies in over four months, but I chanced upon this in Emerald's Safari Zone yesterday! :D
My first Shiny Oddish and second Shiny ever in Emerald! I named her Maya after mayapples (aka American/wild mandrakes), nodding to Oddish's mandrake origin, and evolved her into Bellossom. I knocked out the Sp. Atk training in Emerald and traded her to LeafGreen for Speed training and topping off her level, still hoping for a full-odds Shiny Yanma (or Slowpoke) in the process. (I also wouldn't turn down a second Shiny Meowth/Persian to transfer to my Gen. 4 team.)
Huge congrats!! I've become a really big fan of Oddish of late, and I'm actually starting to come around to thinking it's one of the coolest Pokémon, haha!! Super underrated, for sure.
Major props for getting it in the Safari Zone, too - that battle must've been terrifying!! :pink_disbelief:
It's been forever since I've been on the Pokecommunity, let alone this forum (I probably still have my cringe signature lol). Hope everyone is doing well, and a big congratulations to the people who have obtained shinies since my last post (there's a lot of you I trust) and welcome to all the new members who've joined since.
Feel like I should do a rejoin post so here's my list of shinies obtained:
(Not sure if Go shinies count, I don't really hunt on there but thought they were worth noting)
Currently double hunting in Berry Forest on Fire Red and Route 37 in Heart Gold at 500 encounters apiece, going for anything on the route as I love them all, would be nice to reclaim my lost Pidgey though. I'll try my best to hunt as much as possible but I'm starting uni soon, so I'll do what I can, but will definitely try and be more active on here <3
Know I've done 2 replies in a row, so hoping this isn't spam. Yesterday, after 7143 encounters across my Heart Gold and Fire Red, I reclaimed my shiny pidgey! It appeared on Heart Gold which is fitting as my lost Pidgey was on a Heart Gold hack. It honestly looks so much better on my screen than it did on camera or when I've searched its sprites. Onto my next hunt: I'm resuming my hunt for Turtwig on Platinum, currently at 2100 SRs, and alongside it (cause I love double hunting now) I'm restarting my Fire Red and am going to hunt for each of the Kanto starters. Good luck on your hunts guys!
Video (used a link as for some reason embedding doesn't want to work :/):
Welcome back, man!!! It's been forever!!!! I'm really glad to see you again - it's been years, haha!!
I can see your list of shinies has grown enormously from when you first joined - huge congrats on all the new ones!! I totally agree with you on the shinies looking better in the game than they do from pictures or videos on the Internet. I don't know why that's the case, but I've 100% noticed that with my own shinies, haha.
I'm really glad you're back in the club and I hope you find many, many more shinies!!! :boogie:
Wow, huge congrats on all those new shinies!! It's amazing that you're almost through Sinnoh, hahaha!! My personal consecutive shiny 'dex starts with Venusaur and ends with Charmander, "lol!" :rambo:
OMG!!! By Jove, what luck!! Less than two hours after Purugly shone, I got shiny Tepig in White 2!!!!!!!! :pink_boogie:
She appeared at 8:29 PM - a mere hour and 44 minutes after Purugly - and even has a Modest nature!!! I had always thought that shiny Tepig didn't look all that different from the original, so I'd been looking at the number on the summary screen instead of the actual Pokémon, haha. I noticed that the number was red this time, and sure enough, Tepig was a bright orangish-yellow!! :boogie:
It came on #10637, and each reset felt like it took forever, "lol!" To give a sense of scale, each SR took about 3-4 times as long as each Pearl random encounter, haha.
So finally, after many, many years and even more soft resets, my gruesome, daunting, and seemingly-interminable Unova starter SR hunt has come to a close. I've gotten all three!!!
EDIT 9/5: WOW!!! Another shiny!!! It's...
...Shiny Mawile!!!!!!
"lol" best run ever!??? This is my third shiny in less than 24 hours!!! I woke up "in the middle of the night" (which was really, like, 7AM, "lol!") and figured I'd hunt for a bit before heading back to sleep. Mawile shone at 9:23 AM on encounter #3922. It took 8 Dusk Balls to catch - after 7 failed capture attempts, it used Crunch on my Volcarona and ended up burning itself due to Flame Body, which really helped, haha! :pink_laugh: The next Dusk Ball did the trick!! :laugh:
I named him Gil, since the huge jaws of Mawile kind of reminded me of the Sharknado movies. Gil is the seventh shiny of my Sableye hunt, all caught in Challenger's Cave on Black. On to Phase VIII! :boogie:
EDIT 9/7: OMG OMG OMG OMG OMG I DID IT!!!!!! I GOT HIM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
SHINY SABLEYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
OMG IT'S FINALLY HAPPENED!!!! I GOT SHINY SABLEYE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I found him at 10:16 PM, on encounter #2978 since Mawile. Overall, that makes it encounter #61,764 since I started hunting Sableye!!!
Finally, another Ghost!!! This hunt actually was much shorter than I anticipated - I figured I'd need to get a shiny Riolu and Lickitung before I'd have a chance to nab Sab', hahaha!! :laugh: It only took VIII Phases and wayyyyy less than 81,920 random encounters, so I got super-duper lucky with this one, "lol!" :laugh-squinted:
This was one of the hardest Ghosts to get - Snorunt's probably going to be the hardest, but this one was in my books as the #2 hardest Ghost to get, so this is a really major step in my Ghost Quest. I'm getting closer and closer!!!!! :pink_boogie: :boogie: :pink_boogie: :boogie: :laugh:
I managed to catch Sableye on the third Dusk Ball attempt, and I named him Octeau. It's pronounced the same as "Octo" (since he was the eighth shiny I found on the hunt), but it has au at the end, with is the symbol for gold. Shiny Sableye has a bit of a golden sheen with a dope emerald in the middle, which looks really, really cool!!!!!! I also hadn't caught one yet, so I got to see the super-awesome shiny Pokédex entry!!!!
Here's the final tally for how my Challenger's Cave hunt turned out:
(LGE) Shiny Gastly is so damn stubborn, borderline more so than my shiny Charmander but so am I.
I've also been resetting a new HS file for a shiny Cyndaquil.
Hi been a long time since I posted here. Just got 4 the other day. An SOS Spearow, a random encounter cutifly right after the spearow, Hapiny while trying to sos a Pichu, and a Fearow while trying to random encounter a Minior. The most shiny I ever got in a day. Did have shiny charm so wasn't full odds.
