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The Shiny Hunter Challenge
The Shiny Hunter Challenge http://i1187.photobucket.com/albums/z383/Kitoriderp/4e88cf63-003b-4da6-9af6-62637b607de6.jpgRules 1. You must complete the game only using shiny pokemon. You must soft reset for your starter as your first shiny. A second shiny should be obtained before you challenge the fourth gym in your chosen game. A third shiny should be obtained before challenging the 8th gym. 2. No hacking, use of action replay, or pokesav to obtain shiny pokemon. 3. RNG abuse will be allowed, though please specify if you're using this to obtain your shinies -- it will be noted on your challenger/champion entry. 4. No trading in shinies from other games you own or other players. 5. Non-shiny HM slaves are allowed but may not be used in battle. 6. The challenge ends when you have defeated the Champion of your chosen game. 7. Please update us on your progress as regularly as possible! Optional things to include would be shinies you are currently hunting, number of soft resets for a certain pokemon or number random encounters since your last shiny (if you're counting). Optional Rules: ✦ Obtain a shiny before challenging each gym. ✦ SR for shinies of all stationary pokemon in your chosen game. ✦ Obtain 6 shinies before challenging the Elite Four for a shiny Hall of Fame team! Sign-Up: Username: Game(s): Challengers ✦ Kitori - Platinum: 0/8 Badges ★ 1 Shinies ✦ Soulsilver10112 - SoulSilver: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies ✦ Janske - FireRed: 0/8 Badges ★ 2 Shinies - SoulSilver: 0/8 Badges ★ 2 Shinies ✦ Koopafan29 - Diamond: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies ✦ TheShinyEevee - HeartGold: 0/8 Badges ★ 1 Shinies ✦ Kirozane - Platinum: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies ✦ FishyFins - SoulSilver: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies ✦ Dyl-icious - SoulSilver: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies ✦ Brickbusterx - HeartGold: 0/8 Badges ★ 2 Shinies ✦ Cheesecake(GlassTheDragon) - HeartGold: 4/8 Badges ★ 8 Shinies ✦ SubVirus - Liquid Crystal: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies KobraX - Platinum: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies .Bacon - White 2: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies ⊗Slenderman⊗ - HeartGold: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies Water Gym Leader - Platinum: 0/8 Badges ★ 6 Shinies chuckleslucifer - Silver: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies - FireRed: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies - Emerald: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies Hughes - SoulSilver: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies Satiel - Gold: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies RayBanJ7 - FireRed: 0/8 Badges ★ 0 Shinies |
I accept this challenge!
Username: Soulsilver10112 Game(s): Diamond |
I'll join since I have that shiny charmander in the bag haha. I'll be doing it on fire red;).
Currently 1k random encounters exactly for shiny nidoran male. I do hope I don't get jigglypuff or spearow since I already have them (transferred on another file lol). I have a feeling it will take very long:(. I dunno how much you'd like me to fill you in but I won't bother you with less than 1k random encounters haha xD. Also I defeated brock so I have my 1st gym badge. But I won't proceed to the 2nd gym until I find nidoran (or another shiny) :D. How many SR's did you do already? Or you don't count them?:p |
Wow this looks pretty good I will join thank you
Username: Koopafan29 Game:Diamond |
Currently just a little over 2k RE's and no shiny (nidoran) yet:(. Oh well guess I can't stop until I find one xD.
Does anyone know the odds of finding a shiny by RE? Yes I know its 1/8192 lol, but I wanted to know the average of finding a shiny averagely speaking. I think I remember once I read something in the lines of: Under 1k RE's 10% of people find their shiny By more or less 5800 RE's 50% of people find their shiny But I can't remember exactly where I found it or if it is accurate. Also I calculated my amount of RE's per hour and I think I can do between 250-300 RE's depending on how distracted I am lol. Is that considered a good, average or bad rate? Worst case scenario it means if I really do encounter a shiny at 8192 I'll be around 30 hrs of searching xD...awwtch:( Oh and @ Kitori, the stationary pokemon, do the pokemon in the game corner also count? I also thought of an additional idea, though it's entirely up to you and I won't feel offended if you tell me euhh no wtf xD. Anyway, we have to get at least a 3rd shiny before battling the 8th gym correct? What if you make it like you have to have at least 6 SHINY pokemon in order to fight the E4 (champion) with those 6 shinies only? Hall of fame would be entirely shiny:D. And I know I could be a bit silly but how can we check if a person is being honest or not? (I know I am but everyone can say whatever they want lol). Do we have to put pictures as proof or something? Or you take our word for it:p? Phew that was it haha xD. Good luck in finding your shinies people:) |
I've only done like 200 SRs for my challenge, I have finals next week and I've been doing a lot of work for my business. @[email protected]; Soon it will be vacation and I will have a ton of time, though!
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I'd love for people to take pictures of their shinies and post them as they get them, though! I like to look at them and I like to post pictures myself as "proof" even though I don't think anyone would accuse me of lying. (except my first two shinies on W2 I got within a day of each other... so that is kind of suspicious I guess haha.) |
Finally signing up to this!xD
Username: TheShinyEeeveee Games: HG & SS (is it ok to hunt on two for one badgequest?) I'm at 9900 starters seen so far!~ |
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@ Kitori; Wow I can't believe you put so much effort into answering all my questions haha thanks xD. I might get a camera and take a picture if i have a shiny encounter or of charmander, just cause pictures are always nice xD?
I have no idea how to show/upload a picture with a post though lol, I mean I only signed up 4 days ago:D. But if you could tell me it would be very much appreciated:D. Oh and only 200 SR's :O? You're quite the busy type aren't you:P? But I know what you mean though I have the same :(. Never stable work hours, early shift night shift, weekend shift etc. But at least I love my job lol. One of the best I have had so far:D. And I knew the statistics were off lol. I guess it was just a percentage of people finding a shiny in a certain forum/thread. Like for example in that forum 10% managed to find 1 under 1k, 50% under5.8k and the rest 40% took more than 5.8k. I mean as far as I canr remember lol. And 2 shinies in a day on BW2? I never even had one in gen V haha xD. You really are a lucky one I guess :P @ TSE; Wow 9900 encounters? That's so unfortunate:(. I hope you get it soon really. I think you can hunt for 2 at once before the 1st gym. I mean Kitori only said u needed to have 2 before the 4th gym. She didn't tell us we couldn't have already 2 before even getting there haha :D. But she can correct me if wrong of course and I hope if Im wrong I don't get beat up or she uses a hyper beam on me haha xD. --> EDIT: It is allowed haha, yaay I don't get hyper beamed :D! |
getting quite annoyed as i can't really sr coz of distractions ugh right now at 293 sr's
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Good luck, you can do it;)! EDIT: Guys I found another shiny!! A shiny spearow! I really wanted this one the least since I already have a spearow transferred from fire red of another save file once, but hey a hiny is a shiny xD! I got this during break at work too haha xD. It took me 2467 RE's. Funny fact this is the 2nd shiny that was in the 2400. Charmander at 2412 SR, now spearow at 2467. I am still going to try just once more for nidoran lol xD (stubborn xD), but if then I get another spearow or another pokemon, I will just go on and try to find me a shiny oddish or so lol. About the stats/nature, I have to say the nature sucks:/ Bold.. better than modest or quiet etc but still, a hindering attack nature isn't nice but what can you do xD. I will still invest 252 EV in atk and 252 EV in speed regardless. AS for the IV's here is the outcome so far: HP: 4 - 19 Att: 0 - 13 Def: 7 - 23 SpA: 22 - 31 SpD: 5 - 21 Speed: 27 - 31 At least it has good speed lol, though I fear his attack IV to be 0 haha xD bold nature 0 attack IV would be a disaster haha please no xD. I'll try to post pictures tomorrow evening too;). Good luck everyone on your hunts:D! |
I've been SRing alot, getting tired of the intro of the professor and Lucas. I am at about 100 SRs for a shiny turtwig (no luck), and I decided to multitask by resetting for Rayquaza and hunting shiny mareep at the same time.
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I know most, if not all, of the people participating are new to this section and how it runs, so I just wanted to adress this real quick:
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So yeah. Just clearing that up for anyone wondering or concerned about it. :) Like I said, if for any reason, someone is caught in a lie, Kitori can disqualify them and take them off the challenger list. If they try to fight it, they'll deal with me. I have never had that happen though, so it's nothing to worry about. Anyway, I hope you're all enjoying this fantastic challenge! Kitori is doing a great job running it and I'm so happy to have new people in here. :) If you have any questions, please let me know! |
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Looks a bit hard.
When it comes to my luck, I'm HORRIBLE at it. |
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I hope you'll take this challenge and good luck to you if you do so;). |
Wow... I have had a lot of luck with shinys in the past, but I just can't take on this challenge. I SR'd a heatran one time and I was soooo frustrated. I'll never do that again.
Still, this looks like an exciting challenge. I wish you all luck and I will keep an eye on your progress. |
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If you have any questions, feel free to ask me (or Kitori of course since she knows even more than me about this challenge:D) but just so you know that the optional rules arent necessary. In fact you only need to get 3 shinies to complete the challenge. Hard? yes it is lol. Undoable? No xD. |
I'm the worst challenge runner ever! xD I still haven't had time to SR. Final exams are almost over, though! Yaaaay. I have Thursday off but I will be packing for my vacation and then driving so... maybe sometime this weekend I'll get some in. ^^; I'm not sure how my internet access will be while I'm on vacation. I have my phone but it can be hard to type posts on it so I might be a little scarce the next two weeks. (But hopefully I'll come back with shiny news!)
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And thanks a lot :3c ^^ PS: You certainly are NOT the worst challenge runner ever haha, I mean look at you replying to all my questions and answering everyone in need of you:p. Sure a bit late xD... but I know you are busy and I don't think anyone here will hold it against you:p. I remember a year and a half ago I was just like that too lol, studying my ass off, fearing the exams, doing weekend jobs, etc etc, so I know what you are going through xD Have fun on your holidays and good luck with your exams;) EDIT: 5400 RE later and still no shiny to show for. This is just insanity lol. I know it isn't uber long yet but still, it is my longest hunt so far and I am kinda losing my patience:/. I'm so annoyed right now you guys don't even know:p. I will honestly rage if i DO get a shiny and it is another spearow lol. I'll try to reach to 6000 today and hopefully by then I will have one to show for, but I honestly doubt it:(. MORE EDIT: 6500 RE and still nothing! Man this is taking forever :(. I hope before 7k it sparkles lol, I'll even take a spearow again haha xD. May your luck be better than mine:) |
So sorry I haven't posted since I've joined! I was super busy hunting and with school and family stuff going on - I won't really have much time to post in this thread, but I'll try and keep up.
As for the HGSS thing, I'll be entering it as Heartgold please, as I found the following on there. I am using both to get a shiny before every gym, but hopefully I should get at least one shiny on that game before the 4th/8th gym! And, to finish off, I recently found my first shiny for this challenge - a shiny Totodile called Jaws! I won't post the whole story here, but if you want to read about it it is in the SHC. Thanks, good luck everyone!^^ |
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@ Everyone good luck to you guys and I hope you will post once in a while, even if you aren't so lucky lol. |
I hope you do not mind, but I would like to switch games from Diamond to Soulsilver. (Much easier to reset, no text for picking a starter, and I can see if any of the starters are shiny without waiting.) Also, a question: Can you trade in two Pokemon and breed them in the game via Masuda methood to recieve a shiny?
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You know what? I accept this challenge! It sounds an awful lot like one I did in HG a whiiiiile back where I got 9 shinies....
I'll be using platinum. I'm also taking on the latter two rules. I will SR all stationaries (excluding roamers) and gift pokemon (Including the eggs I think) and will finish the game with a full team of shinies. |
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PS: 7700 RE for nidoran and nothing pff, sad days xD. Welcome Kirozane, hope you will enjoy the challenge as much as we do :D! |
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