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Official New and Improved General Shiny Thread

Supremacy

Shiny Hunter
Who is doing the Platium badge quest?

*Raises hand* I've been stuck in route 202 for over a month now. ~36k encounters so far for dat golden Shinx.

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Well, I've been really distracted lately thanks to Pokemon Red and I have also been preparing for a special hunt so very little progress on Shinx lately. I'm making this secret hunt my main priority right now, so my other two hunts will have to take the back seat. I'll probably still work on Shinx a bit but my hunt on Black 2 will be put on hold completely for now. Just so you know how special this hunt is I'm working on, I'm actually tracking it, which I never do cause I'm too lazy lol but I wanna know the exact number for this hunt. Can't wait till it shines! :]

Gratz on all the recent shinies and good luck everyone!
 

TheEliteEmpoleon

Well-Known Member
Decided to get back in to hunting recently, and I've been going strong in my hunt for Ho-Oh. Technically I've been at this for like six months or some crap like that, but it's been very on/off. My motivation is strong this time around though, so I think I can stay with it. Good luck to everyone else
 
Congratulations to the folks who got their well-deserved Shinies!

I am currently on a hunt for a Shiny Eevee, using the DexNav method on Route 116 in my copy of Pokemon Omega Ruby. Unfortunately, I am over eight hundred encounters and still no sight of that elusive silver Eevee, and I am in fact wondering if I had scared away that one Shiny at one point. But I will remain vigilant thoughout this hunt.
 

Mrs. Oreo

Banned
I finally hatched a shiny Trapinch this afternoon as I was finishing hatching another batch of eggs hee hee. I'm going to evolve this shiny all the way since I like how shiny Flygon looks. I'm still doing fishing in both X version and Omega Ruby version btw, although I haven't hooked a shiny in either game this week, but hopefully I'll manage to later on before the weekend. :3
 

Cyberra

pain in the ***
I'm still hunting in the fire safari... I decided to hunt another larvesta, since the volcarona I have was a trade and not something I caught myself. I'm running a timid sync lead as well. At 956 REs I find a pink magmar instead. Magmar is male, timid, somewhat vain, and has his HA, Vital Spirit. I'm gonna put him in the hold box and trade him later.

Maniac Tunnel is at 5,000 REs. Munchlax is at 200 eggs.
 

Laurelai

Well-Known Member
Congrats to everyone who has gotten shinies!! I suspended my February CH on 2/28 because Crescent Isle popped up and I had been wanting a shiny Cresselia for a while and after about 400 SRs, she pops :) I tried and tried to catch her in a Premier Ball because it looked the most "moon-ish", but I ran out of balls :( I had managed to catch a few practice runs in them, but this girl was reluctant. He name, Tethys, is taken from one of Saturn's moons. Her IVs are rather unremarkable, but bold sync worked :D
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So, back to the Feb CH and I missed it by a day!! Ah well, my shiny Sneasel is adorable :) Named her Gummi- hatched with shiny charm after approx 600 eggs. Perfect IVs in all but DEF, and apparently her DEF is abysmal lol. Ah well, I lubs her anyway! Thank you Cyberra for the mother Sneasel in a love ball!!
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Good luck fellow shiny hunters!

Numbers 95 and 96! Getting closer to 100!!

*EDIT 3/3/16*

Well! Short hunt. Didn't quite finish stabilizing maxxed IVs, but I had a lovely parent from Dangertrout that she gave me over a year ago. #97 is here, a very nice dratini with 5 IVs, missing perfect in SpDEF and has her HA. Probably took me 70 eggs? Nice surprise since dragon eggs take so long to hatch.

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Tagi

Well-Known Member
I have my third pokemon for my badge quest. Pretty disappoint I've gotten this before my MM Froakie or SR Spiritomb as both of those hunts are *way* above odds. I also already have a shiny oddish (but I got that over WT so at least I know this one is legit.)

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But pllth, no point complaining and shiny Bellosom is cute! I've called her Belle, but I'm not 100% on it, so if anyone has any suggestions feel free to share :)
 

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LilyValley

Useless Sceptile
I wouldn't have expected to get anything so quickly at this moment. Shiny Mawile hatched, from the 314th egg. Adamant, IVs of 31/31/31/x/31/x. Hyper Cutter is not ideal, thankfully I have enough Battle Points for an Ability Capsule(Thanks Pokémon Bank). Next I'm going to compile images of my shinies for something not related to this site, including my Trainer Card of every game I've hunted on. It shouldn't take over a day, and when that's out of the way I may move on to hatching Magikarp.

I just hope that the minimal time it takes for Magikarp to hatch won't make me run out of eggs constantly. When a Pokémon hatches, I put it in the PC and collect another egg whenever possible. Trying this with Magikarp will make it very hard to have 5 eggs at once, and I'm not sure if it will slow down the process. Either way, it doesn't hurt to see how it goes.
 

oarfish

#1 Lanturn Owner
Congratulations to everyone's shinies!

Well, I just finished hatching 1,500 Honedge eggs. No shinies.
I am planning on continuing this hunt, but it is taking much longer than my others for some reason.
In other news, I hit max time on my AS near the beginning of this hunt. Woo.

Good luck to everyone else on their shinies!
 

the ash man83

Avid TCG Fan
Well done on all the shinies :)

I've been straying from safari hunting, experimenting with other methods. Chaining effectivelyof any kind is still a work in progress unfortunately.

As mentioned in my last post, I was horde hunting on Route 20 in X. After 464 hordes, I got myself the Trevenant I wanted! Nothing too special, although it did have its HA which is something.

I've since found 2 safari shinies (Electrode - 250 encounters, Drapion - 260 encounters). Tried some more horde hunting in Azure Bay, which rewarded me with a Shiny Wingull. after that, I decided I wanted to horde hunt myself a Shiny Skorupi to go with the Drapion I caught. Unfortunately, the two places it can be found via hordes also have regular downpours, resulting in me having to switch location often. So far found 1 Shiny Bellsprout from Route 14, and 1 Shiny Weepinbell from Route 19. Not giving up though! And whilst both routes are raining, I'm horde hunting on Route 10, hoping for any of the 3 available there (Nosepass, Yanma, and Houndour).

Tried PokéRadar chaining, found a Shiny Floatzel in a chain of 4 (don't think it was part of the chain as such, just accidental).

So current hunts:
Skorupi horde hunting - 350 hordes
Route 10 horde hunting - 310 hordes

Good luck to all you shiny hunters!
 

PKMN Trainer Gray

Active Member
Hi guys
congratulation on all your new shinies
I love reading about your hunts and even I didnt post anything for a long time I was still hunting

Yuss! I finally finished all of my hunts, how is that possible you may ask, well I was kind of doing a project of my own
I wanted to breed all of my favorite shiny pokémon and for them to be competitively viable, I like playing competitively from time to time -I get to anxious XD- and I love shiny hunting, so I've always feel that for all the time I spend shiny hunting why not make the best out of it and go for awesome shiny competitive pokémon that I would like to use on my teams, and of course the possibility of a full shiny team
I set my self the goal of filling a box full of shinies, but I filled it and was still missing some shinies I like a lot so I kept going and decided to fill a second one because why not?
Yesterday I got my last shiny so I want to share with you guys all of my partners... is awesome to hatch a shiny, train it, level it up and then wreck someones team XD
they are so many that Im going to post them by region on different posts

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His name is Blutus, such a tank got him on 10/16/2014



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They are Ryu my MegaCharizard X and Drakull my MegaCharizard Y
Ryu hatched on 9/4/2014 and Drakull was the one that started it all, he was born on 7/18/2014

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This is Bowser and he completed my trio of Kanto starters
He was hatched on 9/26/2015

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Kingpin my Nidoking. Nidoking has been one of my favorite pokémon since gen1 and his shiny is amazing, I love that blue. He was hatched on 7/25/2015

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This is Zeus, and I name him after my dog -he was a Golden Retriever-
was hatched on 12/29/2015 and I love him

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Balthazar the Alakazam... oh well look at this shiny, I just dont know why, who decided that is a good shiny for Alakazam, well I really like Alakazams ability Magic Guard and is a pretty powerful mon, and he has a MegaEvolution and he is one of those trade evolutions that I dread, there is nothing worst than not having a second 3DS and having to trust on a stranger to evolve your pokémon, ah yeah, Balthazar, well he was hatched on 1/28/2016

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D'oh, this is an amazing pokémon to have on your team, Regenerator is awesome and he can take hits for days is like he have the "Homer Simpson Syndrome"
he hatched on 5/92015

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My MegaGengar Anima, she is so cool, and one of my favorite pokémon from all times, I love Ghost pokémon and she is just one from many of shinyGhost types I got, but she will reign number one for me above all the rest

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Oh Juno, she is such a troll and such an iconic pokémon competitively and over all, how could I leave Chansey out
she hatched on 11/15/2015


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Since MegaEvolution is a thing you just cant pass on Kangaskhan and Leto proves to be a monster
she hatched on 5/19/2015

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Andromeda my Starmie, this is one gorgeous shiny pokémon, I love that blue core, Starmie also has a nice special attack, speed and movepool, it isnt just beautiful
she was hatched on 3/4/2015

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This is Bucefalo, on more of the iconic residents from the OG Safari Zone.
Tauros was a surprise for me, Ive always like this piece of manly pokémon but I never knew it was this strong and fast, couldnt let it pass when I hatched this Sheer Force Tauros
He was hatched on 8/5/2015

[img139]http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af192/PKMNTrainerGray/Dragonite3_zpsiqxfb5b2.jpg[/img139][img139]http://i1007.photobucket.com/albums/af192/PKMNTrainerGray/Dragonite1_zpsjcepy7ug.jpg[/img139]
To finish the Kanto region, Khaleesi, mother of dragons, the original one
This is what a pseudo legendary looks like, amazing ability in Multiscale, it gives you a chance to boost your attack and speed with Dragon Dance and finish everyone after that, and there isnt anyone faster with Extreme Speed
She was hatched on 12/3/2015

Good luck with all your hunts!
 
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wobbanut

Team Awesome
*sigh* As you can see by my signature, it was a bit of a rough week for me, and it was all on Omega Ruby while quad hunting.

I got distracted and made the dumb move of hitting run by accident. TWICE. Thank God both were repeat shinies, or there would have been some colorful language erupting. And thank God I was able to reclaim the shiny oddish, I'll work on illumise later. The reclaimed oddish was male, which will go nicely with my previous female shiny oddish, so I can have vileplume and bellossom (which I prefer to be male and female, respectively).

As for the magickarp, I just did a chain fish to break my bad luck streak. :p

Hopefully this next week goes better. Here and there I'll also play Red and Blue. which I have on my 2DS and 3DS so I can trade. I'm playing them in synch, the same areas at the same time, so I can help the pokemon level up together. And God I hate not having running shoes.
 

dreemurr

New Member
Longtime lurker, decided to join mostly for the shiny thread, LOL. Right now I'm hatching Shellos! I want at least one shiny of each variation, but I'll probably take a break between the hunts if I decide to Masuda for West Sea as well as East. I'm definitely not evolving the West Sea Shellos, because I think the pink on its shiny is gorgeous, and probably could be convinced to go through two phases (with a break) so I could get both Shellos and Gastrodon for East Sea. I've never even used Shellos or had any interest in them before now, but they're actually really cute! I'm sorta glad I'm breeding them by the hundred.
 

ChaoticInverse

<--31,000 incounting
Hey guys, it's been awhile!

I was going to wait until I got a shiny to post, but I've been hunting since January and I've made little progress so far.

I took a break from hunting for a couple months, I just wasn't feeling it and had to deal with school as my main priority. But lately i've been working on a few hunts. I've been sr-ing for a johto starter, as the beginning of a badge quest and I'm at 1,800. I'm hoping for either chikorita or cyndaquil. I've also been sr-ing for the eon ticket latias and I'm at 1,101 sr's. As back up hunts (meaning I'm going to focus on them more when I either get Latias or the johto starter) I've been sr-ing for piplup in platinum (26 sr's) and oshawott in black (51 sr's). I've also done 69 sr's for torchic bringing my sr total up to 32,069 sr's in counting.

So that's really all the progress i've made, not much but it's something. Congrats on all the new shinies and good luck everybody!
 

Cyberra

pain in the ***
Thank you Cyberra for the mother Sneasel in a love ball!!

^_^ You're welcome!

Well, I'm still in the fire safari looking for that larvesta. At 1,660 REs I find a second pink magmar. Male again, hardy, takes plenty of siestas, and has Flame Body. Into my hold box he goes...

Maniac Tunnel is at 5,500 REs. Munchlax is at 440 eggs.

Edit: At 1960 REs, three hundred encounters after magmar, I find a shiny larvesta. I was syncing for timid, but instead larvesta is quiet, takes plenty of siestas, and has Flame Body. I'm still going to train him, though.

Edit #2: While EV training my larvesta in SpATK, I randomly find sparkles in a vanillite horde. A shiny male vanillite. He's quiet, with good endurance, and has Ice Body. Into the hold box he goes...

Edit #3: My shiny charm seems to have kicked back in. Not long after that surprise vanillite I get a shiny cubchoo. Female, lax, somewhat vain, with Snow Cloak. Into the hold box with her.

Now all I need is another smoochum and the Frost Cavern horde trio will be complete.
 
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Fleckihund

New Member
I think I've had caught like 4-5 shinies.. and 2 were random.

Currently I'm trying to get a shiny eevee.. 174 eggs so far.. hopefully it won't take a long while ^^'
I know I'd never have the patience for a shiny legendary o.o"
 

Cyclone

^ where it all began
After spending 2 weeks Dexnav hunting for a Trapinch (with is a biznatch to do in the desert) I finally got one after 1100 encounters.

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Even though I had a Synchronize Adamant lead, it ended up being Naive, which is not bad (+Sp, -SpDef). It's actually useable, it's IVs aren't terrible.

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I really wanted this shiny because back when I first bought HeartGold, I found a shiny Vibrava in the Safari Zone and evolved it into an awesome Flygon. Unfortunately, I actually LOST that entire cartridge, which really sucked because it was one of my favorite teams I'd ever put together. So I was really hoping for this shiny which was why I was so persistent.

I spent all that time hunting for it, and then yesterday I was Rock Smashing for a little while trying to get Heart Scales/Big Pearls/etc and found this:

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It's Lonely (+At, -Def), which is a very decent nature considering it was just at random, and it's IVs are very passable too! It somehow has 31 in both HP and Attack. I don't know how I got that lucky considering it's a Full odds shiny, and in no way was I chaining or anything. I'm proud that I found it, but I'm really proud of what I named her:

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Typhlox

Typhlosion Trainer
So it's been almost a year and a half after ORAS were released, and I just got around to trying DexNav for the first time! After 461 regular beetles, this purple girl appeared!

[img139]http://i.imgur.com/UEfpEDp.jpg[/img139]​

And she's almost perfect. Adamant with a 31/31/28/23/31/8 spread. Speed isn't as great as I'd like, but she'll be a beautiful Mega Pinsir.
 

the ash man83

Avid TCG Fan
No luck so far in my hunts.

Skorupi horde hunts haven't been increased because apparently my Kalos loves the rain. So instead carried on with Route 10, 600 hordes and nothing.

I've also been searching in a Normal type safari with Smeargle, Kecleon and Teddiursa, hoping for a green bear. That's sitting at 550 encounters with no sparkles.

Good luck to everyone else!
 

ClipOwl

Fell off a boat
Hatched 1680 eggs for Totodile so far with nothing to show for it, and I'm still SRing for Sudowoodo in SS.
If I hit 2000 eggs I'm probably going to put that hunt to the side and search for something else for a bit.

Good luck to everyone in their hunts.
 
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