Sorry for bad quality, but this is ridiculous. After hearing that Pokémon bank was shutting down I knew I needed to work on the crystal VC Celebi. Decided to sit down today as I had nothing to do and not even an hour later do I get it.

It’s over….

It’s finally over!

(I couldn’t capture the sparkles in time because I felt so stunned Shiny Mewtwo even appeared in the first place haha)

This hunt has been my white whale!! I was convinced I would go into 50k (I almost wanted to in a way for bragging rights lol).

In the time I found this green boi, I used a second switch and started a LeafGreen file and shiny hunted Bulbasaur. I got it after 6,604 resets (and over 10k on my GBA and 9k on my phone but that’s a different story haha)

These long hunts always make you think “am I going through resets too fast? Is my RNG messed up?” You also get worried that you might reset over it due to muscle memory! But you just gotta push through and remember that RNGesus giveth, and RNGesus taketh.

Anyways.. onto Squirtle!

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.

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.

Non mi aspettavo una hunt così lunga, ma alla fine ne è valsa la pena

while ev training my scizor, the game obviously knew how distraught i was after failing my shiny articuno hunt and blessed me with a random shiny onix. life is beautiful and im so gorgeous and handsome and funny and flowers bloom wherever i walk and-

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)

Few weeks ago I posted about my first ever shiny that I encountered in the wild. This was all part of a journey I've been on to complete the national dex in each gen and move them on up, which suddenly had to get rushed due to Bank's impending closure. Well, I've finished that journey through Gen 7, and have been doing some wrap up on some things I want to get before I can't anymore.

And one of them was a shiny Poipole. I've never properly shiny hunted before so this was my first time. The legitimacy might be questioned a bit because I do prefer to play on emulators, but either way I really didn't expect to get it so quickly for something that you can't really reduce the odds on. I'm pretty happy with this little guy.

A much harder one I have ahead of me is the Japanese Emerald Mew, though. I've got a save in JP Emerald with the game beaten and waiting on Faraway Island. I've done a few runs without counting resets but since I already have the Poipole I might lock in on the Mew hunt next.

Side note, I have no plans to do every unhuntable-post-bank shiny. I certainly do not have the stones to chase after Wishmaker Jirachi or Rangers Manaphy lmao. The only ones on my list are Poipole, Mew, Alolan Rattata/Raticate, and maybe Type:Null

(Title says 1166(ish) cause there's maybe 100 or so I did before I started counting them.)

I've always said it... having a shiny appear in the Safari Zone is the best and worst feeling at the same time...

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

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

Absolute tragedy they shiny locked this, it's easily one of my absolute favourite shinies from Alola, but I can remove shiny locks so problem solved!

It's Mild nature!

One ball only, 2/3 fled while the win rate is 82,2% 🙃

Three times over odds, crazy stuff. Bound to happen eventually. I also only did resets for this one while doing resets for Type: Null, so between the 2 that’s 4 shiny rolls making my soft resets 4 times over odds kinda. I did get Yveltal at like 258. Anyway, my moon copy is almost to Type: Null so perfect time to finish that up to dual hunt Type: Null and wrap that hunt up given that its currently over odds (4800 encounters currently). So glad to get this one, and as much as I love Dynamax Adventures, one less I’ll have to do come Pokemon Day.

My #beatthebank shinies
18 encounters -Partner Cap Pikachu
21 fishing chain (multiple broken chains) -Sharpedo (dupe)
4946 encounters -Poipole
11 SOS chain (and a bunch of eggs) -Spinda
258 encounters -Yveltal
157 SOS chain and 697ish total calls -Alolan Rattata
3 odd eggs -Magby (to be evolved to Magmortar)
2 odd eggs -Elekid (to be evolved to Electivire)
5 fishing chain- Feebas (lots and lots of broken chains) (evolved into Milotic)
1 odd egg -Pichu
3 odd eggs -Smoochum (to be evolved into Jynx)
3 odd eggs -Igglybuff (to be evolved into Wigglytuff)
3 odd eggs -Magby (to be evolved into Magmar)
5 odd eggs -Magby (dupe)
5 odd eggs -Smoochum (dupe)
6 odd eggs -Cleffa (to be evolved into Clefairy)
28 fishing chain (other chain breaks) -Horsea (to be evolved into Kingdra)
55 SOS chain and 310 total calls -Pom-Pom Oricorio
6 odd eggs -Igglybuff (dupe)
44 chain (a few breaks as well) -Luvdisc
36 chain -Remoraid
10 chain (with a couple breaks) -Remoraid (to be evolved into Octillery
21 SOS chain, 531 total calls -Alolan Rattata (evolved into Raticate)
100 SOS chains -Pa’u Oricorio
21 fishing chain (with a couple breaks)-Remoraid
11 fishing chain -Remoraid (dupe)
4120 encounters -Xurkitree

I came back to full odds hunting and my first hunt back wasn't kind with 23.630 encounters for a first phase Patrat. However my target Purrloin shined 1h and 762 encouters later !

Ended up wanting to get back to my Sapphire SBQ and shiny shuppet appeared not even less than 1h and 348 encouters later.

That's what full odds is all about.

No shiny charm, 33 SOS on this chain. I'm at 183 SOS total for 1% politoed. I cant believe I got a shiny before politoed!

Damn you Chikorita.