Midnight Umbreon
Life is a conundrum of esoterica
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Currently hunting wimpod in usum. wish me luck?
SHINY GHOST HYPE!
Hey SHC!! I wasn't able to post for a while there since I was super busy with school, and then I went to Seattle to find a Mariners T-shirt...their letters are really shiny!!! :laugh: And do I ever have shiny news - not only did I find one shiny during the last couple of months, but I actually managed to find two!!!!!
What was the first shiny I found? Why, it was a shiny Chikorita!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "lol" what else did you think it was going to be??? :pink_laugh: I've honestly lost track of how many shiny Chikorita I have now...I think this one is like, 5, maybe? :laugh-squinted: :pink_boogie: :boogie: :pink_laugh: I love collecting these things!!! Chikorita's one of my absolute favorite Pokémon (as in, top 5 all-time!), so I'm always thrilled to add another one, "lol!" So now I have like 5 shiny Chikorita, 3 shiny Totodile (I think!), and no shiny Cyndaquil! I've already traded Holly - this Chikorita was female!!! - to SoulSilver and reset to keep on the hunt! Cyndaquil's my all-time favorite Pokémon (as in, like, #1, hahahahaha!) and the SRs don't take long, so I'm going to keep hunting until I have three shiny Cyndaquil as well. I really love the Johto starters and always defend them in the "best starter set" debates, so I certainly don't mind getting more of these things, hahahahahahahaha!
Holly was Johto starter #4389, and I found her on July 27th, 2018 at 2:06 AM.
But that's not all!!!
There's more!
When I was flying back from Seattle to Boston, I continued my shiny hunts (as I did on the plane ride there, and lots of other times too, "lol!")! I was looking for that alleged shiny Sableye in Challenger's Cave in Black, and I ran into...
SHINY WOOBAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woot woot!!! "lol" another shiny Woobat for me!! This concludes Phase II of my Sableye hunt, and now I have two shiny Woobat to show for it!! That shiny Sableye gets closer every day*!!! As for Woobat, I named him PDT 553, since I caught him at 5:53 Pacific Daylight Time**, and there was no way I was going to remember that for the whole plane ride without a computer to write that into a text file so I'd have the info for my next post at the SHC, "lol!" At first I thought it'd just be a temporary thing and that I'd give him a real nickname after I got off the plane and made this post, but it actually sounds kinda cool...like a secret agent name or something! :happy2:
I caught PDT 553 on September 26th, just north of Bismarck, North Dakota. That's my first shiny caught in North Dakota airspace!!! "lol" I bet there aren't too many of those! :laugh-squinted: It came exactly on encounter #5300 of Phase II, and encounter #23833 of my Sableye hunt overall. :pink_eek:
*Well, technically it doesn't, with the independence of Bernoulli randomly distributed events and all...but, y'know, I could get away with saying that if you think about a future G-Money (OMG future G-Money is so cool!!!! :tongue-poke: ) who definitely catches that infamous shiny Sableye, and then the present G-Money is getting closer to catching that shiny not because the shiny is physically, geographically, or mathematically getting closer, but because present G-Money is getting closer to future G-Money, and because future G-Money is super cool and awesome (I mean, he's from the future!!!), present G-Money is becoming even more super cool and awesome than he already is(y'all didn't think that was even possible, did you? MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAA!!), and so present G-Money is certain to find that shiny Sableye...in the future!!! :pink_laugh:
**I know that North Dakota isn't in the Pacific Time Zone, but my watch was still set to that!! I wasn't going to change my watch for like half an hour or whatever while the plane was in each time zone, and "CDT 753" is like a bazillion times lamer than "PDT 553" as a name for a cool flying lime-green bat shiny!!!
I've only made 5 posts this year (gosh, has the Curse afflicted me!?!?), so here's a brief recap of my hunting status:
Primary Goal: Shiny Ghost Quest
I'm trying to get shiny Sableye in Challenger's Cave in Black, which has a 1/81920 chance, "lol!" Now that it's fall, I'm going to do a little bit of hunting for Pumpkaboo and Phantump in X, too! One day, I'll have all of the shiny Ghosts!!Then I'll be able to surround myself with shiny Ghosts as I laugh maniacally and make evil plans to conquer worlds!!! ALL THE SHINY GHOSTS!!!!!
Perpetual Secondary Hunt: Snivy
I like to dual-hunt or triple-hunt with multiple DSes at once, so I'm pretty much always SRing for Snivy on my second DS alongside whatever I'm hunting, "lol." I'm up to 7864 SRs for Snivy on White, and once I get it, I'll probs go for Oshawott and Tepig to continue down my starter tree. Then I'll just need Cyndaquil, Turtwig, the GenVI starters, the GenVII starters, the GenVIII starters, and the GenIX starters, and then I'll have all of them! If GenX gets released before I get all my starters...well, then future G-Money will just go out and catch shinies of all the GenX starters too, hahahahaha!
Setup Hunt: HeartGold
I really, really, really love how the Pokémon follow you around in HeartGold and SoulSilver, so for a long time, I've really wanted HG to be my primary hunting game, so then I'd get to have all my shinies there follow me around and be super awesome and all, haha! But first, I need to get my three shiny Cyndaquil - so that I can have one of each! - and then maybe SR one final time for shiny Chikorita (#509 by that point, "lol!") to play the game with and get tons of cool shinies. The Johto pokes are generally my faves, so I'm really looking forward to having a cool shiny team to follow me around, hahaha! So for now, my tertiary hunt is SRing for the Johto starters in HG.
Good luck to everyone on all of your shiny hunts, be they your primary, secondary, tertiary, or whatever hunts!!! Congrats on all the new shinies, and may the future yous have more shinies than the present yous!!! :tongue-poke:
"lol"
...here's a little game that I thought some of my fellow Shiny-hunters might enjoy. It's meant to be sort of like those games where you use random Pokémon generator to make your team, but is instead determined by your full-odds Shiny encounters.
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Vulpix: 600 dexnavs
Sandshrew 650 hordes
Managed to get myself another magnemite, dang that sturdy ability. Got this sucker at 213 dexnavs. Evolved it to a magneton, completing the gen I evolution line.
UPDATE
Caught myself a sandshrew at 652 hordes, keeping up the horde hunt to get a second one.
AH the master himself returns ^^
Congrats on those shinies G and good luck on the future hunts.
Sending shiny vibes to all ^^
I haven't posted since the Smoochum, I have been shiny hunting since then.
I lost my Omega Ruby game in July but found it again in September.
I continued my hunt for Cacnea and Baltoy #2 and got a shiny Sandshrew in 426 Dexnav's and then shiny Cacnea in 502 Dexnav's both on Sept 17th. I don't need the Sandshrew but typically encounter every Pokemon that pops up. Was worried about Cacnea having Sticky Barb so just threw a quick ball and it caught.
I've been double full odds random encounter hunting for Exeggcute in Azure Bay and Jynx and Haunter in Frost Cavern. I'm at 2021 for Exeggcute and 2470 for Jynx/Haunter
I've also done some friend safari hunts again, found a 3rd shiny Volbeat, a 2nd shiny Dedenne and a shiny Gothorita in 450 FS encounters.
I've just turned on Pokémon Moon, and I was surfing on Ula Ula Island, and my FIRST wild encounter of the day was a Shiny Tentacool?!! I've only ever had a small few actual random encounter shinies (not hunting) and although there's better shinies (I found one on Omega Ruby too) it's my first I've find in the wild on Moon! A really nice suprise as I wasn't haven't a very good day.
Guys I have AMAZING News!!!! I decided to hunt my first shiny legendary (normally get S/Ring for me gets very tedious) and after just over a HUNDRED S/Rs I encountered a SHINY KYUREM!! I false swiped it with Scizor and it literally refused to he caught and I was so scared of it using struggle after chucking 40- 50 balls at it I resorted to the Master Ball (never would've forgave myself for losing this) I'm currently over the moon as you can imagine and am feeling so lucky������������������
I also remember catching a turtle when I was younger and keeping it as a pet
Super awesome congrats on that Cyndaquil, and good luck getting two more to complete the line! I personally love Shiny Quilava, at least with the shade of brown used on its 3DS model. Good luck on your Phantump/Pumpkaboo hunt as well!
Fun team! Your explanations make mine look lazy. I don't think the height factor of Hitmonchan really bother me that much, but its humanoid qualities would probably make me uncomfortable (one of the reasons I can't see myself with Froslass IRL). Mantyke is an interesting choice. Personally, I have a hard time seeing myself with fish Pokémon since, unlike in-game, many of them could only follow me/battle in water.
A tourney based on this idea could be fun!
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EDIT: Not one of the cat-like Pokémon I've had my eyes on lately, but I'll take it! I ended up using the Luxury Ball I had planned for a Shiny Nincada/Shedinja because it looks so cool.
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While Zangoose is clearly inspired by mongooses, I feel that they deliberately made it look more cat-like as a reference to the literal translation of the Japanese word for mongoose, "cat-ferret."
I got his nickname from Kyanite (a blue gemstone), but I'm pronouncing it as Kian (kee-in). Not sure which game I'll train him in yet, but I'll eventually transfer him to SoulSilver to join Noa (my Shiny Furret). I could totally ship these two — they even have the same Nature!