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Official New and Improved General Shiny Thread

Requiem Aeternam

Dance like an eggplant!
Congrats to everyone on their new shinies :)

On the 720th egg I hatched a shiny Nidoran-F. Was happy at first as I wanted a female but then I saw that its IVs are 0/31/31/31/31/31. Absolutely gutted as the only IV I needed to be an exact value was attack which I want to be 0. The rest can be fixed with Hyper Training but the 31 attack can't be which is very disappointing. As a result this shiny has been boxed with the rest of my trophy shinies and will be staying there as I have no use for it. I honestly wouldn't have been as disappointed as I am with this shiny had it not taken so long to appear in the first place. Having a hunt this long only to get the wrong shiny really kills my motivation but I'm not giving up on my dream shiny Nidoqueen now. Going to release the other 239 Nidoran and try for another one. Hope this time I get a female with the attack IV I want so I can take a break from hatching eggs altogether before I move onto something else.

Good luck to everyone in their hunts :)
 

Kalosian

So long
Met another shiny on Sun today. Wasn't expecting it at all, though that's the usual for me when it comes to shinies. I had used Island Scan to make a Totodile appear on Melemele Island and was on my way to get it. At the area where Totodile could be found, I ran into another Pokemon first. Upon seeing it appearing on the screen, I thought once again that the colors looked wrong. Then I realized that it was a shiny, and the sparkles appeared.

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This is my second shiny on Sun and Gen 7. Not the most interesting Pokemon, but whatever, it's a shiny. Not the easiest to take good pictures of either since it moves it wings a lot, and quickly too. I haven't completed the Pokedex yet so I still don't have the shiny charm.

Congrats to everyone who has gotten new shinies recently and good luck on all of your hunts.
 

Shinyhunter1990

Shiny Hunter 4 life
IMG_1588.jpgYay I just caught a shiny bewear I will update with its stats ivs shortly

Update: its stats are hp:208 attack:162 defense:99 sp. atk: 83 sp. def:92 speed:89 decent/best/best/best/pretty good/best
 
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WishIhadaManafi5

To Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before.
Staff member
Moderator
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RedJirachi

Veteran member

TheMaster327

Well-Known Member
10,300 now in Route 4. Seems there's no middle ground with my hunts in Alola. Either really high or really low. Caught PokeRus early on in this hunt. Also had my first 4-in-a-row 5% Eevee tonight. Not sure what the odds on that are but it's probably ridiculously low. Anyone able to crunch some numbers?

Grats to everyone on their recent shinies and good luck to those still hunting!
 

Cyberra

pain in the ***
Shiny crabrawler after 2,542 RAs on route 2 (thanks to TheMaster327 for alerting me to the RA method of crabbing lol). Female, hardy nature, and good endurance with Iron Fist (yay!). I named her Jaime after Canadian female boxer Jaime Clampitt.

Back to Ten Carat Hill to RE for rockruff and beat up on machop for the ATK EVs.
 

TheMaster327

Well-Known Member
Took a little longer than I'd wanted, but third shiny of the STQ has been found after 11,236 REs!

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Shiny Lillipup! It's Sassy, which is not the best, but at least I can move on! :)[/spoil]
 

Mrs. Oreo

Banned
I kind of panicked this morning when I was going to do more shiny Regigigas soft resets cuz I misplaced my Pearl cartridge. I found it eventually, tho by that point I only had 30 minutes in which to work on this shiny hunt. I did some chain fishing the day before however and I even scouted my X version's Friend Safari for shinies, tho I found none. I'll hatch a few more Mareanie eggs later this evening for my other hunt too. ^^
 

Cpchris

Shiny Hunter
Congrats to Scherzando on Timburr and the swap, Requiem Aeternam on Nidoran, Kalosian on Zubat, Shinyhunter1990 on Bewear, WishIhadaManafi5 on Snorlax, Cyberra on Crabrawler, TheMaster327 on Lillipup, and everyone else on your shinies!

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Maybe this means April’s going to make a comeback for me! On the 61st RE of the day and after a total of 6,861 REs on HeartGold, I looked down and saw a shiny Miltank on my screen!

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I was pretty worried that I’d end up finding another Farfetch’d here since they’re about the same appearance rate, but luckily my game gave me my target! So finally after being here for over 6 months I can leave this route! It’s an annoying route to get back to for how often I leave it for a swarm…Have to go through Route 48 and all along the cliffs, climb down to the bottom of the caves, and then surf along the cliff and up the waterfall.

Now I just fly back to Route 48 and I’ll be at my next target – Tauros! This is a scary target for me just in terms of it being 20% and without a repel trick option. My luck with 20% mons has certainly been…Beyond awful? I think that’s a fairly reasonable description (16 phases/136k REs for Growlithe, currently on phase 7/74k REs for Ralts). But this is also the best time for me to hunt it, as I don’t want to end up at this route sometime later after having hunted the Oddish line to completion and then find duplicate Gloom here. That being said, I’ll be able to make use of 2 Gloom from here and Hoppip (and Girafarig and Diglett, but they’re 5% and 4%).

Unfortunately, I also have a 39% chance for things I don’t need – Farfetch’d (20%), Fearow (10%), and Growlithe (9%). Since Growlithe becomes 29% at night, I was originally planning to hunt somewhere else at night, but that no longer seems very rational since I now realize I still have the same chance to find useful shinies at night as I do during the day – Growlithe simply picks up Farfetch’d’s rate who doesn’t appear at night.

Good luck, everyone (especially TheMaster327, Crimson Penguin, Bumblebee5253, umbreonfan3636, CharlieDoryRose, SheroGH, G-Money, Martinzqx, tui, markasdarkas, RaichuArcanine, pokemaster13, Tina, Shy, Ruru_star, skilax1234, Pluski, ElectricBassClef, and Nakashima)!
 
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RedJirachi

Veteran member
10,300 now in Route 4. Seems there's no middle ground with my hunts in Alola. Either really high or really low. Caught PokeRus early on in this hunt. Also had my first 4-in-a-row 5% Eevee tonight. Not sure what the odds on that are but it's probably ridiculously low. Anyone able to crunch some numbers?

Grats to everyone on their recent shinies and good luck to those still hunting!

Pokerus huh? Is Pokerus more or less likely to show up than shinies? BTW, if it's 4 in a row normal Eevee it would 0.000625% or 1 in 160000. Which is about 39 times rarer than randomly encountering a shiny
 

Cyberra

pain in the ***
Pokerus huh? Is Pokerus more or less likely to show up than shinies? BTW, if it's 4 in a row normal Eevee it would 0.000625% or 1 in 160000. Which is about 39 times rarer than randomly encountering a shiny

1 in 21,178.6 chance. It's much rarer than a shiny. So getting pokerus is pretty lucky.

Toucannon is an awesome shiny, btw.

When can I start buying adrenaline orbs? I want to try SOS hunting rockruff, but while I can initiate a battle the stupid thing just will not call for help. I have no intimidators yet, either. Maybe someone can trade me an orb or two?
 

maldoror

Well-Known Member
Congrats to all on your recent shinies and good luck in your ongoing hunts!

After about 400 eggs, Beldum shined! It is adamant and has 5 IVs (missing defense), so it will need a bottle cap. I don't know why, but these seemed to take longer to hatch than others in the same step group. It's probably just my imagination.

I am now well into my next MM hunt; Growlithe. I finally got my 6 IV parent and am in the process of collecting/hatching eggs. Not much luck yet.
 

GuessWhosMac

New Member
After 32 resets for shiny Chikorita, 2,226 resets for shiny cyndaquil, I am proud to present, after over a whopping 25k resets, Shiny..... Cyndaquil again!


If only Totodile would shine for me...
 

TheMaster327

Well-Known Member
My next hunt shone before I got a chance to tell you what it was! After 249 slow Surfing encounters in Brooklet Hill, a blue duck decided to say hello.

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Jolly nature, which isn't the best nature, but it's base physical Attack isn't that bad, so I guess a physical set would work OK. (Anyone find it funny I find a Jolly natured shiny at Brooklet Hill when Brooke of ShinyTwins178 guesses Jolly? That location can't be coincidence.[/spoil]
 

RedJirachi

Veteran member
1 in 21,178.6 chance. It's much rarer than a shiny. So getting pokerus is pretty lucky.

Toucannon is an awesome shiny, btw.

When can I start buying adrenaline orbs? I want to try SOS hunting rockruff, but while I can initiate a battle the stupid thing just will not call for help. I have no intimidators yet, either. Maybe someone can trade me an orb or two?

So OP is luckier than if he got a shiny?

I believe Adrenaline Orbs are available after beating Kiwae's challenge
 

wobbanut

Team Awesome
Not much new this week for me, though I did a couple of quad hunts of SoulSilver, White 2, Y, and AlphaSapphire. Got a shiny zigzagoon and a shiny wurmple, both in hordes on AlphaSapphire. I'm hoping for fresher shinies this week.
 

Requiem Aeternam

Dance like an eggplant!
Congrats to everyone on their new shinies :)

After 989 eggs, 269 eggs after my first shiny, I hatched a second shiny Nidoran. A male this time. I really like male Nidoran's colours in these games as I prefer the washed out blue rather than the vibrant one of Nidoking. Not keen on Nidorino's colours either, it looks too greyish, so I'll be keeping my Nidoran as he is. I'm glad my male shiny hatched much faster than my female. His IVs are 31/31/31/31/31/decent. I'm not too concerned as I'm after a female and don't plan on using this Nidoran at all as his nature is bad for Nidoking and the attack IV is wrong. I plan on breeding for a regular Nidoking later down the line anyway.

Good luck to everyone in their hunts :)

EDIT: Second shiny of the night after 1113 eggs. Another male Nidoran. This one has better IVs with 31/Very Good/31/31/31/31. Going to finish hatching the rest of this box then head to bed. I'll resume hatching eggs in the morning. I feel better about this hunt now as shinies are hatching quicker. Hoping this luck continues and I get my female. Fingers crossed.
 
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Nutter t.KK

can Mega Evolve!
I wasn't expecting to be posting here today.. my last shiny was back in HGSS days, a Shiny on July 18th 2007, which pre-dates this thread. Mainly as I'm not really a shiny hunter. and I've not been playing Pokémon as much. (I do have Shiny Pokémon since then, but Lake of Rage or events hardly count)

So I got a Shiny Litten. http://imgur.com/XUvhNZD

It was MMed as I had a Female Japanese Litten with my male Incineroar which was my starter. These eggs where made for the hatching event a last month so I was hatching my remaining eggs. I think it was my 82nd egg.. I wasn't really keeping track, but the game did with Pokémon Bank. I was intented for most of the Littens to be trade fodder.
 
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