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Official New and Improved General Shiny Thread

Mrs. Oreo

Banned
@ Ampharos_Spark - I'm so envious cuz I'm still soft resetting for a shiny Azelf myself hee hee. But congrats. :D

I did some chain fishing on Omega Ruby yesterday, but found nothing sadly. I of course worked on my shiny Azelf hunt as well and did almost 200 soft resets during three hours I think (I didn't count them, but that's my best estimate). I will continue working on these two hunts this weekend cuz I'll have nothing else to do. :]
 

TheBuckeye11

Shiny Hunter
Decided to stop with the horde hunting. Seriously 9 days with no shinies at about 4 hours a day? Started MMing for an eevee. New goal to get all eeveelutions shiny. GL to everyone else
 

Laurelai

Well-Known Member
Moderate hunt at 300-ish eggs completed last night :) I hatched a shiny Swirlix and was lucky enough that it got its HA Unburden. I had made up my mind that if it was missing its HA, then I was trading it off and hatching until it had the ability I wanted since I bred this one to have Belly Drum. Anyway, here is Pavlova, which is a meringue desert that you pile up berries and sauce on :) 5 perfect IVs, missing ATK (bummer) and apparently its ATK is pretty meh at 11. That's ok though, it still kicks booty after a belly drum. I didn't get a pic last night after it hatched, so here he is after being evolved with the egg date shown.

[img139]http://i100.photobucket.com/albums/m36/Laure1ai/IMG_20160428_084452.jpg_zps0il3tc3m.png[/img139]
 

umbreonfan3636

Well-Known Member
Congrats everyone on your recent shinies! And thanks Zenn of Ascension, tui, and Crimson Penguin for the good luck!

My Ruby version glitched out on me again, which is scaring me. Thus, I decided that I would finally replace the batteries on my Sapphire and Emerald versions, play through Emerald until I can clone pokemon (I consider Emerald cloning to be legit since you can do it without external devices), clone my Marshtomp and Alakazam and then send them back to my Ruby so I can hunt without fear of losing them. I'll probably concentrate on my Fire Red hunt for Scyther at the Game Corner and Platinum for Swinub/Sneasel for now though.

Good luck everyone! Especially, Zenn of Ascension (the only other Gen III hunter around!), tut, Crimson Penguin, cpchris, TheMaster327, Ampharos_Spark, and Supremacy!
 

ClipOwl

Fell off a boat
Congratulations to:
LilyValley with Totodile, Electrike and Fletchling; Paraqua with Tangela, Wurmple, Stantler, Absol and Onix; Twilit Dragoonwith Axew; Phillies with Illumise, Nidoran♂, Paras, Stunky, Treecko, Mudkip, Zapdos and Darkrai; Gwabatim with Scyther; Psychic with Skarmory; Laurelai with Lapras, Turtwig and Swirlix; Zenn of Ascension with Aron, Electrike and Zigzagoon; pokemon trainer mystery with Feebas; Jonah White with Flabébé, Pikachu and Jigglypuff; maldoror with Chimchar, Turtwig, Piplup and Chikorita; wobbanut with Pumpkaboo and Mareep; TheMaster327 with Wynaut and Sewaddle; tui with Shaymin; Cyberra with Regirock, Zekrom and Lugia; Ampharos_Spark with Azelf; Ace Trainer Alex with Pawniard; Pokeaidan with Ralts; Aesnath with Feebas, Latias and Reshiram!

A couple days ago, after 716 eggs, I hatched myself a shiny Scyther:

[img300]http://i.imgur.com/gGL7UUQ.png[/img300]

He's got an adamant nature, Technician, and a spread of 31/31/31/x/31/31, so basically perfect and he's gonna be the best Scizor =D
Then after another 9 eggs I hatched a second one so now I have the full Scyther line completed, and also like 200 more eggs to hatch 'cause I collected way too many this time :x

Crescent Isle showed up on my OR game so I'm currently camped there slowly SRing for Cresselia. It's probably going to take a while since it's not something of high importance to me. I just didn't want to have to wait for the island to come back if I missed it. Other than that I'm currently collecting Meditite eggs and hopefully it won't take too many to get a shiny one.

Good luck to everyone with their hunts!
 

wobbanut

Team Awesome
Not much going on the last few days for shiny hunting, but I did get another shiny pachirisu in my electric friend safari. And please, guys, I beg you, I need some more Friend Safaris, PM me.

Anyway, I've gotten a bit bored with doing the same games on my quad hunts, I pulled White 2 out for a while to play with HG, SS, and Y. I'm currently hunting for a shiny male yamask in the desert ruins for my shiny Rocketdex.
 

*Murkrow

Bird trainer
Restarted my SS game, reset for a bit while choosing a starter, but decided I wanted to use Meganium so just picked a non-shiny one. Today I beat Morty and went to catch Lapras, who I then took to Route 37 to quickly get caught up with the rest. Was training her when I entered a battle, Entei's battle music started and...well.....

[img139]http://i.imgur.com/bnbol7E.jpg[/img139]

Yeah.

Camera was completely dead the first encounter so after picking my jaw up off the floor I followed him around the region for a bit and chipped a bit of HP off while I waited to get a picture.

Unsure if I should use the Master Ball (when I get it) or hold off until I can get a Mean Look/Taunt Umbreon trained up (as I'll need one for Raikou/Latios anyway). Depends on how long I can wait until he's officially mine. :p
 

Kalosian

So long
In 2014, I found a total of 8 random shinies in my games. In 2015, I found 7. What will 2016 bring? While I don't know the full number yet, I do at least know it will be higher than zero. My first random shiny of this year has appeared, albeit later into the year than the first ones from the past 2 years.

Since I'm not a shiny hunter, it is rather logical that I don't encounter that many random shinies. But I do appreciate it when the games give me random shinies so I always catch and keep them.

Anyway, to get to the point. Earlier this week, I was playing Alpha Sapphire, doing some breeding for Pokedex purposes. Hatched the first egg and there was nothing special about it. Hatched the second one and I thought it would be normal as well. I was wrong. It had colors that differed from what I had expected it to have.

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This was a good opportunity to test my new camera when it comes to taking pictures of games, though I'm not sure if there's any noticeable difference in quality compared to my old one, feels like it is only showing the dust on the 3DS screens...

This is my first shiny on Alpha Sapphire, which means that Omega Ruby is the only 6th gen game I haven't found a shiny on yet. This is also my second ever random shiny hatched from an egg, the first one was an awesome thing I hatched on White 2 in 2014. Coincidentally, it was my first random shiny of that year too. Both of them were also from the fourth and final game I bought from their respective generation. And both of them are Pokemon that were introduced in Generation 5, which is my favorite generation.

I was not using international parents, and since I'm still working on the Pokedex, I don't have the Shiny Charm yet either.

Congrats to everyone on your shinies and good luck to all of you on your hunts.
 

Shine

Psyched Up
Staff member
Moderator
Everyone, you can PM me ideas for May CH now :)


Anyway, I'm MM-ing for a second Helioptile. Already had one and planned to evolve it for dex purpose, but I like Shiny Helioptile better, so I want to get another one to be kept as Helioptile, before finally updating my shiny banner again.
 

Dragalge

"Orange" Magical Girl
So I got bored and revisited my Pokemon Y for a bit and went to an Electric Safari I had. I left with some nice luxury.

Up close
It's in the box

Best part is that it has Intimidate and two perfect IVs in Attack and Sp Attack. Adamant would have been cooler but Jolly isn't bad either. Congratulations to those that got shinies recently!
 

maldoror

Well-Known Member
FINALLY! After three separate attempts and multiple parents hitting lvl 100, Amaura shined! It's a male with its hidden ability and perfect HP, SpA, and Speed IVs. My best estimate is that this took approx. 4,500 eggs over the various attempts. This completes the fossils for me. My OR hunt for Snorunt produced a shiny last night. Unfortunately, it was the worst possible result: Golbat. I have three Zubat, two Golbat, and two Crobat from various hunts over the past few years. I am now moving on to MM Snorut and keep my fingers crossed that it is a female.

Congrats to all on your recent shines and good luck on your ongoing hunts!
 
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Typhlosion_Hunter_Mark

Galaxy Trainer
I picked up shiny hunting once again after a break of several months. First I did some casual hunting in the friend safari which yielded me a shiny female Pyroar and a shiny Ponyta pretty quick. After that I decided to pick up my hunt for Raikou in Omega Ruby which I paused at 1000 SR's. It took me a while but after 4533 SR's I finally found my shiny Raikou!

[img240]http://i.imgur.com/GCbc81Q.jpg[/img240]

It has the Timid nature I was synchronizing for and also got some pretty good IV's: 14/31/20/31/31/31.
Summary, Moves, Nature

Good luck shiny hunting to you all!
 
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Phillies

Well-Known Member
Congratulations to everyone on their new shinies.

I had a lot of extra free time to shiny hunt this week and I ended up catching the following shinies: Unown A, I, 2 F, D, G, Z, 2 Stunky, Nidoran♀, 2 Nidoran♂, Spinda, 2 Swablu, 4 Roggenrola, 5 Mime Jr. & Spearow. I wasn't able to catch the shiny Carbink I was going for but all in all it was a good week for me.

Good luck to everyone on their future hunts.
 

TheMaster327

Well-Known Member
Well, that was quite a nice MM hunt. 476 eggs and I get a blue dinosaur :)

[img139]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChZf9UxWMAAWF-P.jpg[/img139][img139]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChZf9TzWMAAEXUR.jpg[/img139]

Shiny Tyrunt! It's Jolly, FEMALE (12.5%), with STURDY! IVs: 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 3. Good job it has Dragon Dance! It's gonna need it! But Rock Head Head Smash Tyrauntrum is now a thing ;)

As for Platinum, I think Munchlax is allergic to Honey... Still not shown up!

Congrats on all new shinies, and good luck to those with stubborn hunts!
 

TheBuckeye11

Shiny Hunter
Well, that was quite a nice MM hunt. 476 eggs and I get a blue dinosaur :)

[img139]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChZf9UxWMAAWF-P.jpg[/img139][img139]https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ChZf9TzWMAAEXUR.jpg[/img139]

Shiny Tyrunt! It's Jolly, FEMALE (12.5%), with STURDY! IVs: 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 31 / 3. Good job it has Dragon Dance! It's gonna need it! But Rock Head Head Smash Tyrauntrum is now a thing ;)

As for Platinum, I think Munchlax is allergic to Honey... Still not shown up!

Congrats on all new shinies, and good luck to those with stubborn hunts!

My shiny tyrunt was a shiny fossil. Random didn't try to get it, traded it away though.
 

Doomdour

Color Ball Collector
[img139]http://i870.photobucket.com/albums/ab261/Blade7526/20160502_013841_zpsanagbsrb.jpg[/img139]

That was pretty fast. Around 50 eggs and a white ghost stump shows up.
 

JohnNiles

Well-Known Member
Question about FireRed/LeafGreen: how does a dry battery affect shiny encounters for these games? I've never tried hunting for shinies on them before.
 

Echo Nacyl

Well-Known Member
My game seriously thinks it's being funny. When I try to get shinies, I seem to get my 6V HA females without much trouble. When I'm only hunting for the 6V HA female, I get random shinies. I got another Shieldon. x.x
Yes, game, shiny fossil hunting is on my to-do list, but not right now!
 

kirkeastment

Completing The Trio
Question about FireRed/LeafGreen: how does a dry battery affect shiny encounters for these games? I've never tried hunting for shinies on them before.

They don't have internal battery issues as there's no day/night or clock.
 

Jonah White

Shiny Hunter/Trainer
Congrats to everyone on their amazing shinies!! Especially Cyberra on Lugia!

So I've been having a seriously difficult time trying to chain a shiny Abra on route 5.
On my 1st or 2nd attempt (can't remember) a shiny patch showed up at a chain of only 32 BUT,
like an idiot, I totally forgot about Abra's tendency to teleport out of battles straight away and so I lost it! Arrrrg!
Anyway, I decide to go and get a Dugtrio with Arena Trap + raise it's level with the Elite Four and then resume my hunt.
I reached a chain of 40 and...messed it up again...OMG. BUT I would not allow myself to be conquered! So I tried again and, after
a few failed chains (that broke early on), I eventually managed to focus really hard and get to a chain of 40 again. My heart was
literally in my mouth by then and so when I had to reset the pokeradar around 100 times I was close to losing it, haha. But then,
Low and Behold! A shiny patch! Needless to say I went in and caught that sucker, haha. So there you have it! I've succeeded in
chaining my 15th shiny pokemon via the pokeradar!

So good luck and persevere to all those still hunting and as always...

May the Shine Be With You!
 
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