r/ShinyPokemon • • 17h ago

Gen VI [gen 6] First shiny hunt ended in a disaster

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228 Upvotes

Bought myself a new 3ds xl to play some older pokemon games. Chose Pokemon X as my first. Decided to shiny hunt with the horde method. 20h and around 12000 encountered pokemon later I found a shiny Mareep. Ended up killing that poor bastard because the sprite layout makes no sense. Anyways my 3ds is on sale now.


r/ShinyPokemon • • 9h ago

Gen V [gen 5] Shiny Starter RNG Manipuliert ✨

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34 Upvotes

Jetzt kann die Reise beginnen 🤙🏻


r/ShinyPokemon • • 23h ago

Gen IV [4] First ever rng. I'm happy af it's over 🥲

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33 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 15h ago

Gen IX [9] Finally got a relatively quick hunt after 50 resets (Living Shiny Dex #531)

4 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 15h ago

Gen VIII [8] 1253 resets, the orange lady shines!

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8 Upvotes

Hunted in inverted colour because blue and green are really had to tell apart


r/ShinyPokemon • • 22h ago

Gen IX [9] 544 resets for a Tuff shiny. (Living Shiny Dex #529)

9 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 16h ago

Gen V [Gen 5] Over 300K total RE's today

10 Upvotes

To give some context, I've been hunting a 5% shiny Riolu for over a year and a half now. And the last time I posted was on phases, 32 & 33. As you can see, it's now phase 46 still without the Riolu. And because of that, I started using repel trick to boost the odds all the way up to.... 9%^ :)

Hopeful that this is the phase I get it on (´˘ -˘ 人)

I'm also live sometimes on youtube, link on my profile! <3


r/ShinyPokemon • • 15h ago

Gen IX [gen 9] My first ever double shiny

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12 Upvotes

Got my first ever double shiny spawn when hunting this beldum


r/ShinyPokemon • • 7h ago

Gen VIII [Gen 8] I FINALLY CAUGHT A SHINY DIALGA AND WITH A QUICKBALL!!!!!!!!!!

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17 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 17h ago

Gen III [gen 3] shiny Rayquaza

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21 Upvotes

I already posted the day I got him, but man.... He looks so great with pokerus. Also has 30 IVs in attack. Can't believe how lucky I got.


r/ShinyPokemon • • 4h ago

Gen III [GEN3] Unbelievable luck, Squirtle in just 11 resets. I feel so lucky.

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32 Upvotes

I’m also hunting Arceus at the same time, but that’s a different story – over 5,000 resets. I’m glad luck was on my side this time!


r/ShinyPokemon • • 11h ago

Gen II [gen 2] Shiny Celebi After 8 Years

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50 Upvotes

8 years ago I bought pokemon crystal vc on release day and throughout those 8 years of on and off soft resets it has finally shined, this took way too long.


r/ShinyPokemon • • 7h ago

Gen VII [Gen 7] Type: Null #17/19 FOUND! TWO MORE LEFT! #BeatTheBank

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149 Upvotes

Hey folks, we got ANOTHER ONE! This has been a long 38-day drought. After a month in which I found four shiny Type: Null, #17 made me work hard for it. Nearly daily triple hunting resulted in a drought of 15732 encounters between shiny Type: Null, collectively between my three remaining cartridges. I averaged 414 encounters per day during this stretch. When RNG gives you fits, volume is king! This Type: Null shined after 5753 encounters on this cartridge. It's only my 5th shiny Type: Null out of my 19 hunted that went over odds - pretty nuts. Although, all three of my last ones have gone over odds. They won't let me #BeatTheBank easily!

Just two more Type: Null to go and then I'll finally have all 19! One shiny Type: Null and 18 shiny Silvally, one for every Memory Type, to cap off this section of my Shiny Living Form Dex! See you for #18! 😎🎮

Stats:

Current EU system hunt: 21555 encounters

Current JP system hunt: 4441 encounters

Total global encounters for Type: Null: 74838


r/ShinyPokemon • • 16h ago

Gen VII [7] Shiny Rowlet starter after 19,136 encounters

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92 Upvotes

Took EONS. I failed the first one at 6536, so in total this was 25,672 encounters and about 2.5 months of my life.


r/ShinyPokemon • • 16h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] PBR Shiny Ledian main story. Unfortunately not a trade battle.

6 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 16h ago

Gen IV [gen 4] 5 shiny starters found in October 2026!

19 Upvotes

This year I committed to complete a Shiny Dream Team Quest in every(most) Pokémon Game made up until Gen 7. Obviously, this would take a couple of years to achieve this. But my goal for this years was to priorities what is normally the hardest hunts for any DTQ (due to the time between resets) and that is the Starters. Since I was 'single' hunting these, I aimed for a reasonable goal of hitting odds by the end of the year on all my starters. This entailed setting a daily goal of hitting an X amount of encounters per day, some of them were easy to achieve, while others (Like the XY/Diamond/Pearl resets) required a lot of attention. These weren't crazy numbers, usually 50 a day is what I aimed for, and most days, I was able to find pockets of down time to squeeze them in. Because I had like 9 active starter hunts at the time, with some being further along that others. I would mainly priorities the hunts that had the least amount of encounters, and if I ran out of time in my day, than I would trust that I could catch up on those further along hunts later in the year.

So, this was a plan that I put in place somewhere around the start of September. The first 2 weeks were relatively quiet with nothing wanting to shine. This made a lot of sense, as most days I would find my self getting in just 200 resets which accumulated close to 2-3 hours of hunting. On the very last day of September, something finally decided to shine...

This came early at just 958 encounters. Surprisingly, I was pretty content with seeing this. I got a Shiny Turtwig earlier in the year on Diamond without phasing. So this was to be excpected, and since this would be the last time that I would do this hunt. I was glad to experience this and tick it off the unwanted 'bucket' list. What I didn't know, is that this would be the catalyst to what is the luckiest month of my shiny hunting career. From here on, I'll cut back on the text and only included the dates found and the encounters they were caught at.

October 6 @ 1730 encounters, Piplup in my Pokemon Platinum shine:

The very next day, on October 7th, after less than 200 total encounters, Chespin in my Pokemon X copy shined at 1340 encounters...

A bit over a week has elapsed since then, but on the 16th of October, Snivy in my copy on Pokemon White shined at 3178...

and history, once again, repeats itself. The very NEXT day, on the 17th of October, Charmander in Pokemon Leaf Green shined at 5021 encounters ...

2 days after this, my most recent shiny shined TODAY. On the 19th of October. Shiny Oshawatt in Pokemon Black 2 at just 2637 encounters....

I know that there's plenty of time left in October for another shiny to be found, but I feel like I could not ask for more from the RNG gods. This has been an incredible couple of weeks and one that I'm convinced will never be topped. The goal I planned out for myself in September was mainly to focus on hitting odds on all my hunts, and my expectations on how many starters I expected to find by the end of the year, was 5. To have found 5 before the end of October is absolutely absurd to me. I don't normally post on here, but I just felt the need to share this to some capacity - because I think a part of me is still trying to process all of this haha!


r/ShinyPokemon • • 17h ago

Gen VII [7] Finally making some progress in my 3ds hunts. 3373 resets for bingo target 12. (Living Shiny Dex #530)

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12 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 18h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] please do not make me get a job

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41 Upvotes

Fossils are done, cranidos was 466 and shieldon was 18728 so they evened out nice both female too absolutely wild


r/ShinyPokemon • • 18h ago

Gen VIII [8] Shiny Arceus after 1817 resets!

14 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 18h ago

Gen VIII [Gen 8] Finally caught my Shiny Arceus!

45 Upvotes

This is my first SR shiny hunt and I see why people do it! It’s really exciting once the pokemon shines. Disclaimer: my hunt wasn’t long at all but I definitely am hooked now.

I love this Pokemon and I saw the only place to shiny hunt this on switch would be BDSP. I hadn’t even played Legends Arceus so I speed ran PLA (pretty good game btw. I’m definitely going back to play it more casually) which took about a week.

I finally caught Arceus on PLA so I spent a few days learning Arceus’ moveset on BDSP and how I should plan the fight. I saw another Reddit post where someone said bring 5-6 Bronzongs and they also suggested a Blissey holding a leppa berry with Fling, Recycle, and heal pulse. I didn’t feel like getting that many Zongs but I had one already so I brought him and the suggested Blissey. I didn’t have a master Al all so I had to do it the hard way!

I started the hunt at 8 am Sunday morning and luckily I got it to shine around 4 pm Sunday afternoon/evening.Not sure how many SR that is on average because I got tired of counting but it wasn’t that many. I probably should’ve grabbed the footage of it shining but I was too excited!

I’m curious, for anyone who hunted Arceus, how long did it take you to get the beauty to shine?

Happy Hunting!


r/ShinyPokemon • • 21h ago

Gen VIII [Gen 8] PLA Shiny Challenge Over

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3 Upvotes

Well, I didn't get every type, but I finished because of a new game coming out Friday. But overall, I'm happy about what I've gotten. My brother will get the Remoraid because I wanted to keep the Quilfish.


r/ShinyPokemon • • 22h ago

Gen VI [Gen 6] Shiny Treecko in Omega Ruby :)

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74 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 22h ago

Gen III [Gen III] Sapphire Shiny Only Run Complete

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66 Upvotes

This one was fun, I wish I had more stats but I only counted SRs for Regirock

Nicknames:

Blaziken - Captain
Beautifly - Juice Box
Crobat - Topher
Magneton - U-Turn
Kyogre - Mahi Mahi
Regirock - Apollo

All done on original hardware, only one copy/file on my GBA


r/ShinyPokemon • • 22h ago

Gen IV [4] decided to grind this hunt after a year of on and off before bank shuts down, finally shined on my way home from a trip

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82 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon • • 23h ago

Gen VI [6] over 2 year later he is here 🥹

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102 Upvotes

Took over 2 years, but it finally shines ❣️ i lost track of how many resets after it went double odds. It's been an on and of hunt, but now finally I have hunted all three starters in this game 🥹 and before bank closes to.