Been hunting a shiny turtwig because I had one back on my original Pokemon Pearl back in the day. The grind continues.

Im so stunned fastest hunt of the DTQ to finish. Cant wait to finish the game.

I legit gasped when I saw it 🥹. Onto the Type Null line!

Decided to reset the Odd Egg on the way to Celebi. A few hatches later and the fairy shines!

So happy to have this hunt done, Latias is definitely an incredible one! Still not sure if luxury ball was the best fit…

Started this on Sunday and wasn’t even past 200 resets. I ACTUALLY almost soft reset over this cuz I was spacing out watching tv. Thank god I locked in for a half second. My last shiny took over a month so safe to say my monthly luck is used up.

I’m now realizing how lucky I’ve been on my DTQ on my soul silver.. 5/6 pokemon in under 15,000 encounters total.

Since then I’ve phased 2 times for a safari zone larvitar (not horrible but please.. just give me the larvitar.)

I decide okay… maybe let’s just go for nidoran male, I love shiny nidoking.. repel trick route 35 for 60% chance at nidoran (m/f, at this point I’ll take either) I get the rarer Drowzee for another phase.

All while at 160 hours (I’d say around 17k to account for inefficiency when resetting) on FRLG for shiny Charmander.

I went so long without a shiny I was so happy to finally see drowzee at least. HELP!!!!!!!

I didn't understand how many variables went into encounters and that one should count encounters by hand.

Since my first hunt was Spinda in Emerald, I spent hours walking every ash-covered patch of grass in the fewest step I could to step on every ash-covered slot. I did this multiple times, counting the number of spinda I encountered in every patch each time, hoe many steps it took, to create a statystic. Then I proceeded to go patch to patch, counting every time I completed all of them in the hope to calculate an estimate.

Math is NOT my strong suit, but it was honest work...

Follow-up to the completely random shiny tentacool I got back in February after buying a new DSi from Akihabara.

So I took like a 2 month break from shiny hunting my last 2 remaining team members in Pokemon X, I already had a ton of eevee eggs that I got before taking a break and after 14 and a half box full of eevees I finally hatched Pixie! But the even crazier part was when I started hatching eggs for noibat and got it in only FIVE eggs.

I was shaking so hard when she crossed my path!

I'd taken a break from looking for her on the Coastlands, too! Was checking for the static Blissey and a few other alphas, but this is so much cooler!

What luck!

I've named the lass Mint Tea

Just finished my first shiny hunt ever! I grew up playing the Pokémon games, but I never really had the patience to shiny hunt (nor did I really know the methods behind shiny hunting), so I never really bothered with it. I always thought they were neat and that was that; However, I just bought a 3ds to play a few games and figured I'd play through Moon and maybe shiny hunt.

Well, a week later, and here he is: my very first shiny.

I’ve been doing several simultaneous hunts to try and beat the bank closure, as I’m sure many of you have. To speed things up, I’ve been doing things like taking advantage of the Emerald duplication glitch, looking into RNG manipulation, and even built a little Arduino robot to soft reset for Celebi in Crystal VC.

To me, I consider a shiny I catch legitimate if it’s done without modifying the game in any way. However, there are some hunts for the GBA games that are appealing to me, but I never got those events back in the day, and I’ve been considering just unlocking them using a GBOperator. This got me thinking about what the community at large considers “legitimate” vs not. I understand it’s a pretty subjective topic, but I was just interested in what everyone’s opinions are.

Honestly, I'm just glad I didn't get another Pidgey or Spearow.

I also reset my Pokémon Pearl save so I can hunt for a shiny Misdreavus in Eterna Forest with Cheryl.

The hunt for a shiny NidoranM is not gonna stop until I get the blue boy!

Also had an encounter with Suicune, but after one Ultra Ball, it ran.

Just a bit over 9,000 Gastly encounters on one system and I find this guy instead. It’s pretty neat but the nature sure is a spit in the face.

I've seen the recent posts about the impossible Treecko and Torchic VC shinies that seem to be mostly unobtainable now but did you know there was a time when you could get a 1:8 female ratio shiny Pokémon with the Gen 1 VC titles? These shinies are already completely lost to time.

Usually, these should be impossible because of how Gen 1/2 determines shininess. However, when Poké Transporter released for the Gen 1 VC, there was not only a bug on what determined shiny Pokémon, but the gender was also re-assigned with the correct gender ratio of that species when transferring it to Bank.

That means between 24 Jan 2017 and 5 Sep 2017 theoretically, you were be able to get the starters, fossils, eevee, and snorlax shiny if you hit the odds of 1:8,192 in game and then again 1:8 when transfering it. That's a combined total of 1:65,536!

Over the last two weeks I was busy developing a patch for Pokémon Bank to not only preserve the connectivity of Gen 6/7 games, but also to bring back this obscure fact in form of an Easter egg: https://github.com/devEnju/offline_bank

I'd love to hear on how you'd think to be able to hunt these Pokémon with the patch and hope you'll find the preservation as useful as I do.

I spent two days resetting Mewtwo, and when the shiny appeared, I lost it because I ran out of healing items. The next day I reset it again, and the shiny appeared, but I lost it because it critically hit Mewtwo. Now I'm on my third reset, but this time it's taking longer

Hi everyone!

I come to you for advice. Last year I shiny hunted Ho-Oh in HeartGold and managed to catch it in a matching Rapid Ball after only 210 SRs. I was super satisfied with that shiny. I instantly decided to hunt Lugia too and catch it in a Premier Ball to match colours as well.

After failing my first shiny Lugia at 2,241 resets because I refused to throw my Master Ball and it wouldn’t stay in a Premier Ball, I hunted Lugia for months until today, 10 months later at 12,260 resets, it shined again. I threw 47 Premier Balls and it escaped every single one of them, then I threw my Master Ball because I honestly do not want to hunt it again and I wanted it to be over already. However, it irks me because a shiny legendary in a Master Ball looks shady as hell. It looks exactly like the shiny Lugia I RNG’d in Emerald years ago. So it bothers me that it’s not in a Premier Ball.

How would you feel about editing its Pokeball with PKSM? On the one hand I’d feel guilty about editing a Pokemon illegally, as it would not feel entirely legitimate to me. But on the other hand seeing that Master Ball already leaves a bad taste in my mouth after such a long and exhausting hunt.

The last of my shiny team - this one I think was the longest for encounters but I didn’t count the other ones because I didn’t have my counter yet. Kyogre took longer because the resets took longer but I suspect it was fewer SRs. So happy to have my team completed! Will post the hall of fame pic when I finally beat the E4

(Obviously I did 10,000 on the counter and then it resets to 0, it was 11,956 total SR)