Official New and Improved General Shiny Thread

[DR.gonzo]

Just got a shiny Gastly in Pokemon Let's Go. My first chained shiny Let's Go. So happy! It took 141 encounters.

Congrats mate . Gastly is going to Be my next hunt on let’s go .

After having some bad luck chaining Growlithe last night and today , braking my chain twice by throwing a ball at
Porygon instead of running away and also braking my chain after updating my switch today 2 shiny Growlithe spawned one after another . This is the second time I’ve encountered a second shiny just after the first has spawned on let’s go .

 

[WishIhadaManafi5]

Congrats mate . Gastly is going to Be my next hunt on let’s go .

After having some bad luck chaining Growlithe last night and today , braking my chain twice by throwing a ball at
Porygon instead of running away and also braking my chain after updating my switch today 2 shiny Growlithe spawned one after another . This is the second time I’ve encountered a second shiny just after the first has spawned on let’s go .

Thanks! Hope you find one soon.

Nice! Glad that your Growlithe hunt worked out.

 

[Ducolamia]

I must be crazy because soft-resetting is so tedious to me. I can't believe I'm actually doing a badge quest.

Some story to this is that I wanted a shiny starter so I'd figure I'd play through OR since I still haven't finished that game (AS was my main game). Saw about 9 resets (27 seen) and then a shiny mudkip appears. What the actual hell.

Since I'd figure I could get the hardest part of the shiny quest out of the way I figure let's try the badge quest.

I was soooooo wrong.

First I wanted a shiny ralts so I decided that the best way to go about it was by the Dex nav. Simple enough until you realize that a level 13 ralts has teleport. I knew this but went for it anyways. Prayed I wouldn't get a level 13 ralts but sure enough I did at a search level of 133. The game trolls me by having the ball shake three time and then it using telelport. My very first official fail.

Out of spite I decided to reclaim the shiny later. After a short 10 ENCOUNTERS I caught a level 3 female shiny ralts. I'm still seething at the game trolling me like that.

I'm currently looking for Shroomish, but it has yet to shine.

 

[RedJirachi]

If you get a shiny Shroomish, name it Mario. You'll see why

Addendum: I have succeeded in reclaiming shiny Dialga. I'm going to do some SOS for Hidden Abilities, then go back to get a shiny Giratina

 

[TheMaster327]

So I FINALLY got my Lapras after a LONG 21,107 SRs! The catch was trickier than planned, with it eating all 14 of my Heavy Balls, but fortunately the second Ultra Ball caught it!

 

[Cyberra]

Shiny pheromosa after 6,183 SRs! Bit of a haul there.

I was syncing for naive, but pheromosa turned out Lax. Not having much luck with the natures so far. It likes to thrash about and has the standard Beast Boost.

Been watching some of my favorite Youtubers playing Pixelmon (yes, it's still alive) and it's made me really, really want to hunt yveltal. But first I have to breed out a sync with the right nature. Thankfully I have dittos so that shouldn't be the biggest problem. Finding the yveltal will be the hard part.

Wish me luck... I'll need it.

Edit: Shiny medicham on the second run into the wormhole. Female, quiet nature, mischievous, with Pure Power.

Edit #2: Shiny crustle. I have one of these from a wormhole run already, so i'll be wonder trading it at some point. Mild nature and capable of taking hits, with Sturdy

I almost had a shiny altaria between this crustle and barbaracle, but it refused to stay in the ball and then Perish Songed itself to death. RIP...

Edit #3: Pulled a shiny barbaracle out of the wormholes yesterday. Mild nature again, mischievous, with Tough Claws.

Yveltal is being elusive. I ran the wormholes for hours, found quite a few legendary red holes and random legendaries in regular red holes. I found the bird trio so many times I'm considering catching them just to make them stop appearing; it's gotten to the point where if the cry as the legendary flies overhead is "GYAOOOOO!" I just leave because that's one of those three stupid birds. I've also found "LUAAAAAAAAN!" (cresselia) and "WHHHWHHHWHHHWHHH!" (thundurus). Still looking for yveltal.

Edit #4: Shiny heliolisk. Again, mild (leading with a mild sync for yveltal), alert to sounds, with Sand Veil. I have one in US from running wormholes over there, so this one will probably get traded off eventually.

 

[TheMaster327]

Shiny Ditto after 232 calls Ended up being Gentle, not really the best nature but then again most of Ditto's stats are irrelevant when it Transforms. Unfortunately not Imposter and got the normal Limber.

 

[Cyberra]

Shiny yveltal after only 1,119 SRs! Wow, that was quick

This beautiful dark beast has the Mild nature I wanted and is capable of taking hits, with Dark Aura. I won't know his IVs till I get him back to Ultra Sun since I haven't unlocked the IV judge feature in UM yet. I had to Spore him twice, then it took three hits with False Swipe to whittle him down. I wanted to get him in a premiere ball or a timer ball (because red and white or red-black-white), but I realized too late that I don't have any of either, so I said "eff it" and chucked a fast ball at him. One shake... two shakes... three shakes... Ding! Captured.

Going after the second stakataka now, after which I will be running the wormholes again after kyogre.

 

[TheMaster327]

That's the first Eevee of 4 for the Kanto Eevee family after a fairly long 636 SOS calls! Ended up Careful with Adaptability. This one will remain an Eevee.

EDIT: Second Eevee after 151 calls! Bold sync worked here, and caught it in a Heal Ball. 4IV missing both attacking stats, which is perfect for a bulky Vaporeon!

EDIT2: Third Eevee after 584 calls! This one successfully synced Timid so will be a Jolteon!

 

[Ampharos_Spark]

Congrats on all of the recent shinies!

Tuesday night I decided to take a break from Pearl Version for a while and work on some hunts. I thought about hunting Carnivine and/or Weepinbell in Y and Raikou in Omega Ruby but, decided on Blacephalon in Ultra Sun since I was close to full (gen 6 + 7 odds) and switching to Xerneas in the game (I said when I started the hunt that after 4096 SRs, I would switch to Xerneas). Anyway, just when I was thinking of shutting down for the night...

Spoiler

It was time to get down with the clown. I luckily had a plan for dealing with it (and kissed my shower goodbye because I had to get to bed ASAP after the shiny for work). First I used Roto Catch and let Blacephalon KO Abra with Mind Blown so it would weaken itself. Next I sent out Quagsire to prevent further minds from being blown and to use Haze to put a stop to Beast Boost. After a bit of healing, I had Quagsire Yawn at Blacephalon. We used one Ice Beam to bring Blacephalons HP just a bit lower. Once asleep I started throwing Dive Balls. Eventually...

Spoiler

Unfortunately Synchronise failed and it ended up with a Quiet nature and IVs of 31/31/14/8/31/28-30. Now I'm searching Ultra Space for Xerneas and I will work on Stakataka in Ultra Moon. Good luck everyone!

 

[Cyberra]

Shiny stakataka #2 after only 1,302 SRs! Wow that was fast o.o

Sync worked this time; it's sassy nature and somewhat vain, with Beast Boost. Again, it took four stacked Roto Boosts to amp up False Swipe and Air Slash enough to whittle it down enough to catch, and then I got it in the first beast ball.

Though I did end up starting the Rainbow Rocket thing (not that I was given much of a choice...) I am going back into the wormholes. Targets are celesteela and kyogre. Whichever I find first is the one I SR first. But knowing my luck, it'll be celesteela

Edit: Shiny lombre on my third run. Jolly nature, somewhat vain, with Swift Swim. This one will be trade fodder, since I already have one in US

Edit #2: Shiny sigilyph. First one of those I've caught in Gen 7. Calm, alert to sounds, with Magic Guard.

 

[TheMaster327]

Fourth and last Eevee (for now) after a very long 907 SOS calls! Ended up Hasty and not the Adamant I was hoping for, but it's still a very workable nature for Flareon

 

[Ignition]

Was trying to get a Jangmo-o to get a Razor Claw but ended up getting a Shiny Mienfoo

 

[Cyberra]

I moved to a fighting safari in Y; I need a machoke form my US dex. And already I've caught the other two shinies available in the safari. Shiny sawk; brave nature, somewhat vain, with Inner Focus. Shiny riolu; gentle nature, somewhat vain, with Steadfast. Still looking for that machoke.

Celesteela is at 800 SRs (I knew I'd find it before kyogre).

 

[StabbyJoee]

Manged to get this guy as a psyduck early on!

 

[RedJirachi]

Good on you. Golduck has always been one of those shinies that really managed to pull off changing the shade of the color but not the color itself(main body at least, though the pink extremities help exentuate it)

 

[Cyberra]

Shiny celesteela after 2,323 SRs! Not too bad

Sync failed (really not having much luck with the sync) and it is gentle nature, mischievous, with Beast Boost.

Now I just need to find kyogre and I'll have everything I currently want from Ultra Moon.

 

[WishIhadaManafi5]

Decided to do a little bit of shiny hunting last night in Let's Go and ran into a Shiny Pikachu (it only took 23 to reach it -- shortest shiny hunt yet). Was really surprised when it popped up!

Just caught a shiny Meltan in Pokemon Go.

 

[TheMaster327]

Well that didn't take too long! Shiny Porygon after only 1,100 SRs!! Synced Modest, it only had one perfect IV in Defense. At 40 eggs hatched for the first Lord Helix now.

 

[RedJirachi]

I have begun an Eevee SR in Leaf Green, in hopes of green Jolteon one day