• Hi all
    Just a notice, we recently discovered that someone got into a moderator account and started hard deleting a load of key and legacy threads...around 150 threads have been lost dating back to 2007 and some weeks ago so we can't roll the forums back.
    Luckily no personal data could be accessed by this moderator, and we've altered the permissions so hard deleting isn't possible in the future
    Sorry for any inconvenience with this and sorry for any lost posts.
  • Hi all. We had a couple of reports of people's signatures getting edited etc. in a bad way. You can rest assured this wasn't done by staff and nobody has compromised any of our databases.

    However, remember to keep your passwords secure. If you use similar passwords to elsewhere which has been accessed, people and even bots may be able to access your account.

    We always recommend using unique passwords, and two-factor authentication if you are able. Make sure you're as secure as possible
  • Be sure to join the discussion on our discord at: Discord.gg/serebii
  • If you're still waiting for the e-mail, be sure to check your junk/spam e-mail folders

Official New and Improved General Shiny Thread

Everlasting

Everything stays.
Darn... I received the fiever of the Shiny Hunter...
Currently using the Masuda Method to hatch a shiny Sewaddle.
Decided to stop. I don't have the patience and the envy of doing it, so I'll just be someone who likes to comment other people's shinies. :D
 
Last edited:

ohjeezitskim

Well-Known Member
I'm still in the tower for litwick just hit 1,100 encounters. I'm going to do around 200 more and then
switch to double grass. I like hunting in those spots. I have three locations I'm interested in, but first
is reversal mountain.

Although there's no shiny news for me, my sister found a shiny in her white 2! After 1600+ encounters
she got a shiny skorupi with gentle nature!
 

Shiny Lord

Well-Known Member
Day 4 hunting in Leafgreen on Route 22 in order to start a badge quest. From Route 22 my 1st choice would be Mankey, 2nd Spearow, 3rd Rattata(got one in my last badge quest in White 2) Hope something comes soon. Have no clue how many encounters I've done. I usually average around 500 a day sometimes more depending on how much time I have to hunt.
 

starrrah

Shine Baby, Shine!
Congrats to Zcruz, Zane Clarthy, AquaRegisteel, Bonetail, and Marvs!

Thanks to everyone for the congrats for Webby, especially ohjeezitskim, starrrah and Papousse. Do you all think Webby is a good enough name, or should I try thinking of something else? I might be able to come up with a different name.

Webby is a cute name, but if you dont want a cute name, how about Arachnia?
Also thank you for the luck ; v;!

More than 10'000 encouters, wow, if I was you, I would already have a rope close by ! I'm joking ! :D
Don't give up, it should shine soon, or else you are more than unlucky, saddly.. Lilligant is very beautiful in her shiny form so it worth a lot the time, good luck !

Aha! The rope is pretty close, but i'm persistent to get this wonderful shiny! I hope it does appear very soon though, as I am approaching the end of my school year and I would have to limit my shiny hunting soon.

Anyways, update on this side, I have picked up my new ds! So now I am dual hunting on both white and white 2! Hopefully this will make things faster, I keeping the encounters separate in my sig but once I find a shiny I'll combine how many encounters it has taken :)
 

Everlasting

Everything stays.
Aha! The rope is pretty close, but i'm persistent to get this wonderful shiny! I hope it does appear very soon though, as I am approaching the end of my school year and I would have to limit my shiny hunting soon.

Anyways, update on this side, I have picked up my new ds! So now I am dual hunting on both white and white 2! Hopefully this will make things faster, I keeping the encounters separate in my sig but once I find a shiny I'll combine how many encounters it has taken :)
Ho yeah, I hope, this time, you'll get it !
 
Last edited:

Supremacy

Shiny Hunter
Wow.. so many people got shinies since my last post o_o!! Gratz to you all, especially that Latios! I'll be going for that next once Registeel shines.

And speaking of Registeel... Y U NO SHINE?!? Its now day 24 and it has surpassed my longest completed hunt which was Diglett (23 days). My hunt at route 15 is now over 7k REs too.. March doesn't seem to be a lucky month for me but hopefully my luck turns around soon. Gratz again on the recent shinies everyone and good luck!
 

Terra Force

<-- Current Hunt
I'm feeling like giving specific congrats so I will. Congrats Darkrai523 on Marill, Marvs on Grumpig, Bonetail on Throh, Aqua on Elekid, Zane on Espeon, Zcrux on Zorua, Wyverndust on Totodile, pokemaster13 on Latios, Bleu on Latias, Crimson on Heracross, and any others I missed.

I'm up to 11,595 REs at Route 32 in my SS BQ. Really want to get it this week since I'm going to get the new mystery dungeon sometime this week and will be occupied with that most likely. But who knows really.

Good luck to everyone!
 

PolygonalPorygon

<- Current MM Target

starrrah

Shine Baby, Shine!
Oh my gosh you guys! I'm so sorry again for posting so soon but I feel this needs it's own post!
But I finally got her!
Shiny Petilil after 11,363 encounters! I finally did it! I didn't even need to start dual hunting!

8wyApmD.jpg

C2knNz7.jpg


Oh my god!! I even got it live! Sadly my computer is refusing to take videos from my ipad, so I shall find another way!
But thank you guys so much for the luck and I wish everyone else on their current hunts right now!

Today I shall start my extremely slow shiny hunting, such as sring as school is about end in a month and I need to focus on my portfolio.
But ahh thank you guys for the luck once again, and goodluck to everyone else!

Edit: Here is the video! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaWFZZhYmvA&feature=youtu.be
 
Last edited:

Master Leo

The Dark Side
Congrats on the Petilil! :D

Woohoo! I just got the 3rd shiny in my LG BQ after only 2,105 RE's!!!!! Good type for Lt. Surge too :D

The Encounter:
http://i47.*******.com/fubdpg.jpg

Summary:
http://i45.*******.com/1623alj.jpg
 

RedJirachi

Veteran member
Most of my previous SRs proved to take a matter of days, and I wasn't trying that much on some. ~200 SRs for 10 days got a bluer Suicune. An afternoon to catch the obsidian Rayquaza. 127 attempts at obtaining a cobalt-blue Cobalion. Yet, even when trying my absolute hardest(500 SRs per day, for 4 days a week), I'm still not seeing a pink Virizion. One of my shortest attempts at getting a shiny legend involved obtaining the creator of the sky itself, yet this musketeer antelope has me two step away from using the OVER 9000! meme in proper context?! I think the world is trolling me now
 

Everlasting

Everything stays.
Oh my gosh you guys! I'm so sorry again for posting so soon but I feel this needs it's own post!
But I finally got her!
Shiny Petilil after 11,363 encounters! I finally did it! I didn't even need to start dual hunting!

8wyApmD.jpg

C2knNz7.jpg


Oh my god!! I even got it live! Sadly my computer is refusing to take videos from my ipad, so I shall find another way!
But thank you guys so much for the luck and I wish everyone else on their current hunts right now!

Today I shall start my extremely slow shiny hunting, such as sring as school is about end in a month and I need to focus on my portfolio.
But ahh thank you guys for the luck once again, and goodluck to everyone else!

FINALLYYYYYYYYYYYYY !
It was about time, my luck worked, yes ! I'm very glad for you, 11,363 random encouters, wow, I hope you will never get through that number anymore ! So lucky that the one that decided to shine was that one, pfeh. Long hunt, but it worth the shot, right ? :D
Congratulation again, and you too, Master Leo, on your Sandshrew, very great Pokémon too !
And I found out myself that shiny hunting were not in my branch, so I stopped my MMing on Sewaddle. Anyway, I'll receive Gates to Infinity in few days so I don't have the time and the patience to do it. And as shiny news for me, my Tangela evolved into a Tangrowth in my White 2 version. Him and Kyogre are doing a great team. I love them because they are my only two official shinies that I have currently, even if I'm not a shiny hunter.
 
Last edited:

Dangertrout

Well-Known Member
Right, so last time I posted I think I was just out of the hospital with a kidney infection preparing to be bedridden for a couple days. Which I was, frantically trying to get better in time for my trip out of town to a relatives place (where I didn't have internet access) and completely forgot to mention that I'd be away for a week during all that chaos.
But I'm back and mostly better. Still some lingering symptoms tho, so back to the hospital tomorrow for me.
Anyways, sorry for the delay; the OP is updated. (took forever to read through all those pages >.<)

As for Aprils CH: Easter is the first, how does everyone feel about hatching a shiny as the theme?
There was a suggestion for chick / bunny pokemon, but I can only think of two families that would fit that criteria. Easter eggs seem to fit in that line of thinking tho, so I thought I'd float that instead.
No vote this month, as I'm still in and out of hospitals, hope thats ok with you guys.
 

JAWAYami

Shiny Dragon Master
grats on the recent shinies, glad to hear your ok atm DT(was worried for a bit...)...but knowing about all the hospital stuff kinda figured

im alright with MM(still have that blue-eyed Nat to find XD...1050 eggs so far...*SIGH*)
im at 8080 REs at Route 15 with no luck atm...i called that one though...still hope something shines soon :)

good luck on all ongoing hunts/your next hospital visit DT.
 

bro

Cool story bro
Congrats starrrah (You seriously deserve that shiny Petilil) and Master Leo on your shinies!

I have put my BW starter hunts on hold because I don't feel like hunting them right now. Instead I decided to start another starter hunt on Fire Red, I'm going to hunt for shiny Squirtle because I really like how it looks. I might do dual hunting, but I need to transfer my shiny Ivysaur from my Leaf Green before that!
I did only 120 SR's last night, just for a little warm up. I might not be able to hunt this week much tho, because I need to finish my thesis. But I'll try my best to get it live!

Good luck everyone and hopefully you get out of the hospital soon, Dangertrout. ;080;
 
Thanks to everyone for the congrats for Webby, especially ohjeezitskim, starrrah and Papousse. Do you all think Webby is a good enough name, or should I try thinking of something else? I might be able to come up with a different name.

Also, thanks Papousse on the feedback! It's nice to hear things like that, because I really do think I tend to waffle on a lot! I'm not an old codger/fogey/grandpa or anything, I promise! ;)

Good luck to everyone, as usual, too, but I just wanted to say to starrrah and Ceecee-typhlosion, because they posted since my last post, that everyone here (well, most everyone! ;)) are all hoping you get some luck soon. We all have to encourage each other, yes?

Congrats to Marvs, bro, Pingouin7, (I think you deserved another shiny after all that time!) Crimson_Blazer, Bleu, pokemaster13, wyverndust and Zcrux! Zcrux, isn't three perfect IVs perfect enough?! Also, looks like a Lati@s Lovers gettogether! (I couldn't think of anything starting with L, sorry! ;)) Edit: Wait, Lovefest!
____________________________________________

After 1738 eggs ...

[img139]http://img266.imageshack.us/img266/1062/1000883.jpg[/img139]


... Mystro is finally mine! Check him out! I didn't post an Eevee picture, as you've already seen my other two.

1000884d.jpg

1000886i.jpg
Got ya, Magic Bounce!
1000887zp.jpg


So, there you go!

I wish I had an awesome story to tell you, but I was just sitting down and watching Ducktales after being out for a while, and I didn't even see him hatch or anything. I just casually looked down and he was staring back at me. I just felt relief, but then I got very curious about what ability he had, and when I checked and saw that, I felt even more relieved!

I then noticed I only had 15 minutes to go until it was 7:00 ... Now, I can't remember what the deadline is for evolving an Eevee into Espeon, but I quickly got to massaging, preening, plucking, fluffing, brushing, and stuffing his face with tasty food in order for him to like me. I'm sure he would after being pampered so much in such a short amount of time. Then I crammed him full of vitamins, strapped him into a Macho Brace, and threw him in some water to attack some unsuspecting Basculin. After one battle, he evolved, and looked amazing!

I still have several boxes to hatch. Always the way! Well, better get to it, they're not going to hatch themselves. After I train him, of course!

I might keep breeding Eevee in the future. I'm sure there's probably an Eeveelution we have not yet seen, and he could look pretty cool, so it might be worth breeding for whichever Eevee that happens to be. Also, I might want an Umbreon, too, if I can work out how to deal with Umbreon's moveset!

Now, I'm not really sure what I'm going to be hunting next. The problem is that there seems to be quite a lot of targets and sometimes it gets hard to choose what you want to go for next. Does anyone else get that problem?

I know I've been really lucky lately, and it's been amazing, so I hope I'm not annoying anyone by posting so much ...

Good luck, all!

Congrats on that Espeon, and nm Mystro, mine was nicknamed Psysolar, hehe from my Pearl (Chained) :)
 

blue8arman

Castform Fanatic
Congrats on recent shinies and good luck to all who is still hunting.
Currently around 240 SRs for Crustle at the Seaside Cave, the one blocking the exit at the east side. Hope it shines soon.

Get well soon, Dangertrout...
 
aaaaaaaand... miserable March madness continues

I only really hunted for Shroomish, Route 32 and Abra today as I had to go to class.

Shroomish is now at 4005 *cries*...getting into the 4000's is really awful :/

Abra now stands at 17147 bought. *shudders*

Route 32 at 3360 RE.

All other hunts remain the same, I may hunt a bit more after I do some work.

Congrats on all the new shinies and good luck everyone.
 

Everlasting

Everything stays.
Right, so last time I posted I think I was just out of the hospital with a kidney infection preparing to be bedridden for a couple days. Which I was, frantically trying to get better in time for my trip out of town to a relatives place (where I didn't have internet access) and completely forgot to mention that I'd be away for a week during all that chaos.
But I'm back and mostly better. Still some lingering symptoms tho, so back to the hospital tomorrow for me.
Anyways, sorry for the delay; the OP is updated. (took forever to read through all those pages >.<)

As for Aprils CH: Easter is the first, how does everyone feel about hatching a shiny as the theme?
There was a suggestion for chick / bunny pokemon, but I can only think of two families that would fit that criteria. Easter eggs seem to fit in that line of thinking tho, so I thought I'd float that instead.
No vote this month, as I'm still in and out of hospitals, hope thats ok with you guys.
Oh, I hope you'll be okay soon !
 
Top