Thread 58217445

Post about your shiny hunts, past or future

Got Brute Bonnet, Great Tusk and Roaring Moon, 6/7 Past mons obtained
All that's left is Sandy Shocks!!

Previous thread >>58203106

Shinny

Stalling my Palkia DA hunt because the bastard has so few weaknesses, is bulky, and has surf.
GF is the devil.

Anyone willing to trade a Walking Wake or Iron Leaves for a shiny? If there's anything you're looking for please say and I'll check

>>58217823
Have you tried throwing it up on the GTS?

Anyone know how to hack the switch so i can get a fucking charcadet to spawn? i swear the outbreaks are glitched to not have the proper shiny rate.

>>58217863
Here's a horrifying revelation:
They have been spawning and you've missed them.

>>58217863
You just have bad luck/bad observation skills. I caught two shinies off normal outbreaks within an hour yesterday with sandwiches. Massive mass outbreaks are basicallt shiny machines.

I didn’t struggle much with Charcadet but I genuinely would never register this as a shiny and not just a result of the lighting if not for Ceruledge refusing to attack it.

>>58217876
>>58217881
bruh
got these two within 20 min of each other
youre right that theyre shiny machines, but holy hell must my charcadet luck suck
>>58217894
gonna do this guy next and see how bad it really is. maybe i just suck at seeing blues

>>58217894
I can clearly see the difference though

I'm still trying to get a shiny venipede/scolipede. Contemplating doing the genocide method of shiny hunting since soft resetting the scolipede spawn isn't working out.

>got my 3 Charcadet last time they were part of a 0.5% event for Pokémon Day
>barely had trouble spotting them at all, nabbed all 3 in an hour
>enter local shiny thread
>more than one anon (I assume) bitching about them being hard to spot
I'm having a harder time with the boosted Paldean Wooper than I ever did with Charcadet. The fuck's the deal here?

>>58217445 (OP)

Got a full party of Shiny Charcadets. Also found a shiny Hawlucha, Flamigo, and Rhyhorn.

>>58217894
I Dexnav'd one back in the day with my 2DD on the lowest brightness and if I didn't see the sparkle I would've had no idea.

It's obvious as tits on a blue board, i was horribly unlucky in the desert

>>58218957
>It's obvious as tits on a blue board,

>>58217445 (OP)
Nice to see the thread again I just got back and picked up a Switch 2.
I'm really surprised by how small Shiftry is,keep in mind, this is an XXL version

coming up on 10 boxes of Finizen. this experience has absolutely soured my experience on Scarlet. I'm only doing this so I can see it through. these shiny odds for MM are fucked, totally fucked. It has NEVER EVER been this fucking painful.

>>58220000
Why wouldn't you just outbreak sandwich it? Is it a balltism thing? I will literally trade you any apriball you need, sunk cost is bullshit.

>>58220022

my autism requires that I get a full team of shinies I want before I start my run. I understand that you can't get the sandwich herbicas until post- or late-game

>>58217445 (OP)
WHAT ?? Since when the general returned? I thought it was gone for good thanks to the teraleak shit
Welcome back to everyone, pic is back when we did a Christmas event

>>58220044

I remember /shw/ from 2012-13. I remember the pink mareep mascot

>>58220043
That is genuinely insane and you deserve your fate.

>>58217894
It's pretty easy when they're next to non-shinies though. The body color is slightly more red too.
You gotta get an eye for it I guess. I hunted some pretty subtle shinies like P-Tauros, sometimes I had to take a double take but once it spawned I noticed basically instantly
That being said I'm still very grateful for the auto attack feature because there's some virtually impossible to tell shinies (due to size and/or barely different shiny) like Tandemaus, or actually impossible like Minior

>>58220049
Back when people had passion, instead of the current zombiefied state we’re in

>>58220044
I'm glad people enjoy posting here, I was worried that it would get 404'd but we all seem to be having a good time :)

>>58220095
This guy is funny, although I mostly shiny hunt for raids now. If I'm gonna train up something anyway I like to get the rarer version

>>58220089
I think my main issue is that with something like P-Tauros, while subtle, it still got the dark and lighter tones reversed so you can spot it at a second look.
With stuff like Numel and how the lighting in the game changes based on time of day I wouldn't be confident to call a shiny out or not if not another standard Numel was right next to it for comparison.

>>58220125
Let me blow your mind: that post was a copy pasta, the original was someone who sperged out about speedrunners on stream

>>58217894
Some mons are too small, I remember shiny hunting for a nymble and my eyesight was being fucked

>>58220836
Had this problem with capsakid. Charcadet's easy enough to see.

>>58217863
Are you definitely on a boosted outbreak? Normal ones can still spawn in my experience.

>>58220886
Thats why I save spicy, it’s how you get huge power

Booted up to raid while watching TV and ran into this. Caught in Dream ball and trained up for ZA.

>>58220921
Do we even know when ZA will be Home compatible? I haven’t heard any word of it so I doubt the compability will be ready from launch.

>>58220998
Almost certainly Q1 next year as is the usual schedule but it has online PVP unlike Arceus so figured may as well get some shiny Mega's.

Two in one day, have shiny charm but not using sandwiches if those even affect raids.

>>58221104
i hate this feel

>>58221098
Pretty sure raids are always locked to full odds

>>58221098
Raids are always full odds, but unless you’re hosting they’re almost 100% botted (if that matters to you)

Going back to older gens for shiny hunting feels so ass. Booted up XY to try and get shiny Whirlipede/Goomy, friend safari encounters are such slogs and radar chaining is probably one of the worst shiny hunting methods ever created.
>Is your desired shiny only available in grass patches in a tight area/weird shape? fuck you
>Need the shaking grass to spawn in a specific tile so its less likely to end the chain? fuck you
>forgot which shaking grass tiles were slow? fuck you
>is it raining? fuck you
At least I caught a shiny Malamar and Eelektross in SV for ZA, and those showed up pretty early.

>>58221583
Just fish chain man
Also finally got my jumbo Numel after like 50 shinies

>>58221583
Radar is actually kinda wack. Recent Johnstone video had the revelation that if you set the DS to your birthday, it gives you a constant odds boost then doubles your odds whenever you use it

>>58221738
Based mark friend

Can I realistically get shiny Zygarde from DA before legends ZA?

>>58221935
Alone? Probably not. With 3 others and a god route? Yeah.

>>58221935
Alone is fine, you need a route to burn dynite ore on that has a wide guard user as well as two ice types.
Have 999 dynite ore and you can do at least 110~ runs on the same route. That's a 70%~ chance of having seen shiny Zygarde in those runs.
Doing runs with people is slow because you can't turn off animations.

Awesome

>>58221738
Yeah fish chain worked okay for me in ORAS, got a shiny female Feebas pretty quick that way. Aside from that though, nothing much else I'd want out of the chain-fishable mons at this point. Grats on the Numel btw, I should probably hunt one as well.

>>58221434
if the data is clean then meh.

>>58222470
It is. They’re 100% “real,” it’s just a matter of personal preference. It’s just the host setting their clock to a specific time to spawn the raid continuously. Also can’t get marks on them.

>>58221434
The only time I haven't cared is the Gimmighoul raids. Limited time full odds raids is pure horseshit.

>want to shiny hunt my favorite mon
>Shiny is garbage tier
>It has a mega
>It's somehow worse than the original shiny

>>58222578
Garchomp?

>>58222547
Extra offensive when you realize Pokemon Go had gimmis with 1/20 or 25 shiny rate

Just happened upon this little fella while trying to get jynx in the ice cave

thoughts on RNG manipulation?

>>58223077
We don't do that crap here.

>>58223080
Isnt masuda method and shiny charm technically rng manipulation?

>>58223080
well, I do
and you can't stop me

29 eggs in the break room at work
Probably my fastest bred shiny

>>58223293
IVs?
Nature?

>>58223293
>>58223326

>>58222845
Yeah...

>>58223293
>Squares on a breedmon
Nice

>>58221104
The funniest part is that there's probably no difference between a 254 XXL and a 255 XXXL

Tomorrow I shall continue the ‘gull hunt

>>58223077
I don't disapprove of it, but at that point I feel like I might as well just gen it.

>shg is back
Finally! I've been hunting Shaymin in BDSP and my deluded ass is using a stat tracker to check whether it is Square shiny and reset over any Stars, just in case that feature ever comes back.
>3 shiny Shaymin murdered so far
And I want to do this twice, once for each form

>>58223404
Are there any actual articles/investigation into each size value, and whether or not there are 256 sizes or just size windows, e.g. 50-75 would all show up as the same size Pokémon? I have been trying to find this info for months and nowhere has it, but without hacking I can't really confirm it myself either

Got lucky with a Pyroar (male) outbreak today and caught these 2 sleepy boys. Both are only slightly bigger than average though, but one of them has the Cloud Watcher title so I think I'll name him Squall.

up

>>58217445 (OP)
SHG IS BACK??
yeaaa baby, i finally finished my SS SBQ after spending 13k on Lugia, here's my HOF team. Not sure what I'm gonna do next.
I have an in progress Ruby SBQ where I'm making a Croatia themed team, and I also got a Vega cartridge that I want to hunt on (autism I know)
And of course, I still technically have 8 more shinies to get in SoulSilver with Kanto.

>>58225331
>>58225335
Lets gooo

>>58217673
Update: Palkia is an insufferable nigger. 30% win rate and have yet to find a consistent run that the AI doesn't actively sabotage.

>>58220000
are you using shiny and egg power during hatching? with shiny charm MM and shiny power ive gotten a shiny sneasler in 10 eggs and a shiny A vulpix in 30

>>58225434
Shiny Sandwich powers don't affect eggs.
Masuda Method + Charm is 1/512 which is as good as you can get it.

>>58225441
>Shiny Sandwich powers don't affect eggs.
in my experience it does. maybe im just super lucky when it comes to eggs.

two bigguns. Gyarados the furious and dondozo the daydreamer. Gyarados was found under a waterfall and dozo in the lake

>>58225466
kino marks. Shame dozo has such a jarring shiny.

>>58225468
it looks kinda tasty

>>58225457
You're lucky.
It will affect hatching though. My enthusiasm for MMing shinies waned tremendously once Reg I started and then I went after shiny legendaries.
I'm around 1500 eggs deep in my Duraludon hunt and still haven't seen it.

>>58225468
I don’t get what it’s supposed to be referencing desu

>>58225532
trump?

>>58225532
If I had to guess, I'd assume it's a simple pan-fried fish, which is strange given its sushi chef theming

>>58225532
It looks like scrambled eggs :)

>>58223404
It's barely noticeable. I hate that they didn't bring the upscale back from Aloha's in PLA. I want my big bois back.

Just got my first double spawn in SV
>fire encounter sandwich on Kleavor rock
>one Litten in an outbreak
>one Litten from an isolated encounter just outside the outbreak range
In total I got five of the guys from one sammy. SV shiny hunting is so broken, even moreso on Switch 2. Probably averaged over one encounter per second flying in and out of spawn range on a mountain

>>58226000
Yea sv hunting is extremely easy even just running around i find shinies everywhere. The weirdest one was the rufflet right next to me after I thought that I should really check rufflet groups cause they're so similar

>>58226000
I might be mental, but there’s some stuff where I preferred Switch 1. It’s pretty much impossible to properly isolate and get only the outbreak to spawn on 2. For the most part, yeah, it’s way better. Also way easier to make out small differences

>>58225936
Alpha's*

While I'm here have any of you got a rare mark shiny? If so, post em.

>>58225936
>>58226208
Do XXXL caught in SV that are moved to PLA count as Alpha? Like say I have a Jumbo Shiny Oshawott and I move it to PLA will it be Alpha sized in PLA? Would it also be able to get the former Alpha mark because of that or is that only for mons caught in PLA?

>>58226220
No

>>58226208
None that I posted multiple times before

>>58226307
No they won't be Alpha sized or no they won't get the mark?

How long did it take you to get shiny bdsp Arceus? This thing does not want to show up.

>>58226344
No to both. It will get the giant mark in SV though

>>58226460
It's 1/4096 bro. It takes forever.
I'm so glad I didn't hunt it on Switch 1.

>>58226460
6000 something resets

>>58226460
Maybe if the faggots didn’t fuck up the Shiny Charm and made it absolutely worthless, this hunt would’ve gone alot smoother
>>58226780
I never tried BDSP on Switch 2 yet, how good is it there?

>>58227399
couple seconds faster loading times

>>58227399
It takes a 30s load time and turns it into a 13s load time.
Your soft resets are 50% faster.

Another addition to the squad, the double. Two quick ones.

>>58227744
epic, i should go for doubles more often

>>58227777
Perhaps not doubles, but youve gotten quads

>>58227838
o my arceus it's a sign

Haven't shiny hunted in a while, this is nice

Just accidentally nuked a shiny Shaymin from orbit in BDSP after 1300 resets, AMA

>>58228174
What did you eat today

>>58228174
With what move

>>58228174
good. shaymin deserves to suffer

>>58228259
Pain au chocolat and a mocha for breakfast, 9 McDonald's McNuggets as a commiseratory lunch
>>58228347
Flame Wheel crit
>>58228363
Only the Sonic fanfic form, OG is cute

Anyone able to trade a decent number of Dino and Bird fossils? Wanna do a hunt but only have a bulk of Shield version fossils

Why do the sub-legendary shines almost always suck?
Gen 2 trio was good, but Kanto's birds suck, Regis suck, the Spirit trio suck, the genies suck, sword trio is passable.

Good god, I forgot how much I hate PLA
Cycling spawns is so fucking tedious, and the game is not as geared for stealth as theyd like you to believe

17280 Ekans seen…

>>58228830
That's how you know it's a spinoff
No dedicated shiny hunting method

>>58229398
If you wanna get technical, they do have a fuckload of ways to increase odds, but not being able to use AOE attacks to rapidly clear spawns and having to use the bed like 6 times to refresh spawns without leaving the map is ridiculous
On top of that, spawn placements are awful and not being able to auto kill something thats aggressive towards you just destroys momentum when most of the entities can sense you from several yards away

>>58229430
Is there a way to control what spawns though? Or are you subject to the randomness

>>58225331
That look good, probably is the shiny I'm shiny hunting next

>>58229445
Mass Outbreaks are random, but every other spawn in the game is largely static
Mass Outbreaks have seeds you can influence depending on whether you catch or kill each individual spawn in the outbreak, but it's difficult to do so when they all aggro or notice you all at once because they spawned in an area with no cover

Basic static spawns need to be killed or catched as well, but to refresh them you have to cycle the DAY/NIGHT 3 times, which requires sleeping 6 times, or you can leave the map entirely

>>58229607
>Mass Outbreaks have seeds you can influence depending on whether you catch or kill each individual spawn
Isn’t it how many you kill at once? Like killing one by one is the same as them running (which only despawns one at a time)

>>58229802
Something like that
Interacting with each individual spawn by despawning it or catching it I know alters the second wave

>>58228893
Got her at 17292

>>58230060
>Jolly
pretty based

up up up

I should not have assumed Koffing on the oni mountain don’t have Explosion

>>58225352
Update 2: found a consistent route with near 100% win rate. Have burned up 25% of my max stacked dynite ore. Hoping to get Palkia sooner rather than later.

>>58225331
588 Abra eggs hatched so far
18 Perfect specimens with 5IVs and 0 Attack, but no shinies...

I kind of wanna go for a shiny female meowscarada but I dont know if I'm quite that suicidal yet. i've seen people get 3 shiny males before....

>>58231255
Just get lucky. Roll the slots.

>>58231255
I got like 20 males then just got one during the Go community day

>>58231255
I got super lucky with an Alpha Dewott, Shiromizu, and then my Feraligatr & Empoleon, Cold-Blooded & Tiara

>>58231264
Sadly I have balltism, I'd want one in a Moon Ball, you see.
>>58231262
Perhaps...

>>58223370
megas xlr detected

Malamarbros we so won, time to get a shiny with a cool mark

>>58231269
Ultra ball worked for my limited Balltism

>>58231255
you have to believe

>>58228519
bumpin

I know that you can't see them post-SwSh, but how do Star/Square shinies work in SV? I've caught 30 shiny Rowlet as a test and they've all come up Star when transferred to SwSh. Is it 1 in 16? Or are they all Star?

>>58233640
Might want to try the modding thread. They probably know more about datamining stuff and I would think how TSV related things work would fall under that. I just know Go shinies are always square.

>didnt buy bdsp when it launched
>unable to obtain shiny shaymin or darkrai
thanks ilca,
also anyone here shiny hunts in the friend safarI? I am looking for a helioptile safari

>>58233817
If you get a 1.1.1 or 1.1.2 cart (...001 or 002 on the back) then you can still OOB to Shaymin

What are the odds we get a mass outbreak event before launch that has increased shiny odds of Dratini, Bellsprout, and Inkay?

>>58234061
Was hoping for that for Inkay since I’ve had such trouble with him. Luckily the others (when evolved) are pretty easy to spot and went wellish for me. Hopiny for a Wingull one because uhh fall winds and rain or something

>>58234154
Me too. I have lucked out and got an Inkay outbreak on an island so I can picnic reset. I have been resting my time to be night time because the yellow is more noticeable at night against the water. Also been playing in docked mode.

I have also been trying to get a jumbo, destiny marked male one and I am WAY over odds.

>>58234174
My two of my three destiny marks went not awful. Insallah you will get the Malaman, buddy.

>>58234002
>OOB
Never heard the term, but could you also get apricorn balls? Ive walways wanted to get shaymin friend ball and darkrai moon ball

>>58234198
Thanks man. It's not really the Destiny Mark that's been the issue. It's the size and gender that aren't wanting to line up.

5 jumbos, 3 were female with uncommon or sleepy marks and the two none marked males.

>>58234234
Wait actually the Destiny Mark has been the issue. God I'm tired. I know that when I get my big boi I am never doing a hunt like this ever again

>>58234206
I think he's talking about void glitch, ILCA just straight-ported the source code of DP to unity (if played on emulator you can even trick the game into thinking the GBA slot's active and get the donglemons).

>>58234206
Out Of Bounds

>>58231221
669 Abras and my first shiny is only a 4IV
4 more Shiny Abras to go...

>>58234818
Second shiny at 773 eggs, another 4IV, 0 Atk

Ok i used encounter power for the first time on Switch 2 whatthe fuck this is stupid theres like 50 in front of me

Bump

>>58234818
Bro, you're asking for a 1/512 chance + the 1/31 (plus some) chance that the stats are correct.
Stop worrying about 0atk, foul play pressure isn't something you can stay in on without redirection or protect.

>5 inkays
>0 marks
ok man

>>58236636
I've got 32 5IV 0Atk non-shinies so far

I'm not super worried about 5IV as long as 0Atk is maintained, and I've got the breeding Abra holding the power item that ensures that

What's really gonna take some luck is getting a female one, let alone 2

>>58236782
Not concerned about nature?

>>58236788
Nah, not as much
Mints and bottle caps are a great, especially since I'm a fag that likes to pretend the Nature/Characteristic is the Pokémon's personality

The 5IV aspect is mostly just for bragging rights since I have the rescources to do so

>>58236693
Stay strong friend. I truly believe we will get an event for outbreaks after the treasures of ruin mass outbreak events end.

Dratini/Hawlucha are exclusive to Paldae.
Bellsprout is exclusive to Kitakami.
Inkay is exclusive to the BB Terrarium.

Our time will come. It's written in the stars... This world will be ours.

>>58237166
If they get shiny boosts ill go for jumbo again, now i just want anything but sociable and the time of day marks

>>58237181
I hate the uncommon mark so much. I'd rather have no mark at all, but yeah fingers crossed we get a boosted odds event for those guys.

>>58237230
>>58237181
I’m getting real tired of Cloud Watcher, even if I like it

>>58237249
I've gotten two Cloud Watchers, Altaria and Salazzle, which arguably are two of the best Pokémon for those marks

I named Salazzle "Hookah"

The Sleepy mark is so lame.

It should have been something cool like the Stargazer or Nightwalker.

>This is a serious big'un! Feels comforting to have such a bulky, reliable buddy around, doesn't it?

God, I want to stab this neanderthal bitch...

>>58237261
I probably have ~10. Caves seem to only have cloudy weather and that includes Area Zero so I’d guess it’s the most common weather to have as a mark Somehow the only one I’m missing is the rainy one

I have a bunch of excess shinies on my scarlet game
Got a
>Croagunk (Male)
>Stunky (Male)
>Cubchoo (male)
>Inkay (male)
>Shuppet (female)
>Luvdisc (female)
>Wattrel (female)
>2x Oarthworm (both female)
>2x Flamigo (both female)

If anyone is interested, you can have 'em like that for no trade at all.
If you'd be interested in helping me though (and willing to touch trade) theres a few entries I am missing for 100% my pokedex including
>Porygon 2
>Walking Wake
>Iron Leaves
>Iron Boulder
>Iron Crown
I missed the events because I'm a very sporadic player and haven't seen a fucking Porygon 2 raid EVER.
Not a condition FOR trading, just would be cool if we could make it work.

>>58237534
If you have PLA, send a SV Porygon over to it and you can evolve it and send it back

>>58237547
I don't, only have the Scarlet game.

tangentially related but: my old switch broke earlier this year, sent it in to nintendo to fix it, they couldnt so they sent me a new one.
ok
just today i decide to load up violet to mess around and see if i have a shiny malamar somewhere
game file gone, no save data cloud
am i just fucked here, pokemon home doesnt seem to be any use
im in my mid 30s and i had pokemon that ive had for over 20 years on that file

on a quest to get every shiny legendary / mythical in shining pearl (except mesprit because it was already roaming)
so far have palkia, shaymin, all the regis, all the kanto birds, and the lati twins
decided to tackle cresselia and it is EXCRUCIATING
80 ingame hours and i'm only at 2.4k encounters
i am never doing a roaming hunt again once i find this little shit

>>58238038
anyone?
after looking online i think its just gone
im just staring at the language select screen and just sad
over 2 decades of stuff gone like that
fucking hell man

>>58238107
Yeah, there’s no cloud save so home is the only ‘safe’ place to keep em is my understanding unless your seitch is hacked so you can back up saves

>>58238175
yeah after diggin around seems without the original console, theres no way
so...yeah
i honestly want to cry but i just am not surprised at anything going wrong at the moment for me
good times

>need purrloin
>egg hunt since BW
>only available in the wild in 3 games, 2 of them gen V
i really really really hope we get purrloin in ZA

>>58238038
>>58238107
>>58238185
genuinely sorry to hear brother

TURN ON PIKACHU CHANNEL
JAPAN JUST GOT SHINY KORAIDON AND MIRAIDON

>>58238697
Got me fucked up

Them shits better come to gamestop or some shit

>>58236693
Got it

>>58238727
Nice
>>58238697
Worse than Pearl Harbor and on 9/11 no less

Fffffffff my fucking game crashed after another 570 or so eggs
1500 or so eggs in total, only 2 shiny Abras so far...

My Switch is hot as fuck rn too...

>>58238700
They gotchu.

>>58239163
EUbros...

>>58239163
once I get my shinies, I think I might just drive around to nearby gamestops for extra codes and just give them away to EU players

>>58238697
>US has to get it through gamestop
What the fuck do you mean?
Why do they do this, all of these useless stores closed around me ffs.

I have both games. I actually bought both games. Why can't i just download the shinies from internet, why do they keep doing this 100 year old distribution system? Just fucking give them to me.

>>58239294
They also say "Miraidon OR Koraidon" so does that mean I'm going to have to make 2 separate trips because the GS employee(1hr 20m away btw) is only going to hand me one code?

>get codes @ local EB for myself
>head to another one nearby for online trades to get the Galar dogs I missed
>MAYBE get more in case it's not available in some regions for others
I did so years back for Shiny Silvally (even tho most of them expired kek), I'll do so again for the first time since the 3DS days.

>>58239311
Probably yeah, though the japanese site says that you have to show your switch menu that you own the game, so i guess if you take both game carts with you they can give both.

>>58239175
>>58239228
EU events will likely be announced soon (or they're delaying it a month on us or something).
>>58239294
Because that's how they treat box legend shinies. Most if not all the shiny box legends have been in-store code distro events. They're not changing, when the have no need to. They WANT these things to be finite, that's why they're not a persistent internet download for a month, like the Treasures are.

>>58239311
And yes son, they're single use (IIRC, the SM era codes were the same, whatever game you entered it on would use the code, leaving it unable to be received on the other game). So you'll need two codes, to unlock one on Scarlet and one on Violet.

>>58239334
Get fucked anon.

Imagine if they let us have them with out OT… Haha…

Every shiny legendary and mythical should be handled like Ogerpon and Pecharunt.

>>58239339
Not my fault you're a young motherfucker who never met a shiny legends distribution before. Never mind are too retarded to work out they inherently meant they were single-use codes.

>>58239382
I just can't believe we're doing fucking gamestop 20 years later when most of the stores are closed.
There's no financial incentive to do it this way. I think it's just TPCi being ignorant of how th landscape has changed.
You're a fucking retard.

>>58239382
Oh by the way nigger, I never asked if it was a single use code, I said the employee is going to hand you "Miraidon or Koraidon" even if you have both games and you'll have to make another trip to the prohibitively far store just to get the other.

Still got two gamestops in my city :)

>>58239414
Well you're retarded then, given there's more than just Gamestop out there and all of them adore getting exclusive hand-outs to get kids in stores to sell them crap. Sorry you seem intend on proving your inability but it's not my fault either, stop acting like a pissy cunt because of a client-side issue.

what about Europe

>>58239540
that still exists?

Can the Nintendo oldfags just die already so the young guys can say that hey these distributions are kinda retarded when we have internet now

>>58237534
i'll give ya shiny porygon2 from pogo for oarthworm or flamigo
>>58239294
the worst part
>gameslop employees steal the codes and immediately post them on ebay
ebay will be the 'easiest' way for you to claim them
however, if you dont mind waiting if the 'event monsters all have the same stats' (like the shielddogs) then just wait for clones to appear on ebay for $1
the distribution method is horrible but
if the monsters are all identical then its not that big of a deal
pokemon home is never going to delete your clones (outside of improper date obtained, and even then they still likely wont)
>>58239434
they're all dropping like flies here
BECAUSE OF THE HORRIBLE STAFF
guy goes on and on like hes a psa expert
telling me 'my charizard is probably fake' when im the one who sent it for grading in 2010 myself kek
'its not supposed to be able to move inside the slab on the rails lol'
i literally have dozens of psa 10s and 9s that do this though
his eyes were bulging out of his head
neurotic\mentally ill
normies just want to buy things and leave not deal with sperg police
>S H G
should i hunt a safari shiny (gen 3) before bank closes?
will the 'safari' ball remain on my shiny upon transfer?
will i realistically catch a shiny goldeen at 1\8000 odds?

>>58239713
I am fucking old, there is absolutely no reason to distribute via a dead company in 2025.
Gamestop is dead, there are sections of the country where it doesn't fucking exist.

Hatched a shiny Dratini in 13 eggs

>>58239822
WITH balltism, noice.
>>58239806
its called a job and a car anon try better ok! ;3

>>58239829
A quick ball isn't balltism, it's almost the never the right choice except convenience.
Have you tried not commenting on things you don't understand?

>>58239845
some of us LIKE the quickball anon
first off all, ive been playing the games since before you were born kid.
second of all, balltism is entirely subjective, anything besides the default\bank\home\event pokeball can be considered intentional balltism.
thirdly, lets remind (YOU) that you are an absolute buffoon and you are not the sole-arbiter of what is the 'right choice'
fourthly, you are not the king of 4chan so maybe try to relax with telling people what they can or cant type online
maybe reddit is more your speed?
maybe return to your discord safe space??/

>>58239822
Why quick?

>>58239822
cool ball!

>>58239851
>needle the tranime poster just a little and be amazed by its autistic screeds and lack of punctuation
>"I'm an adult by the way!!!"

MEGAS

>>58239877
Convenience.

>>58239914
Fair enough

>>58239163
Why not just use the home or SV mystery gift system. What the fuck.

>>58240151
NOOO
Could you imagine a world where everyone gets their end-of-game-life participation trophy?
How horrible.

>>58239829
>>58239877
>>58239883
To be completely honest, I didn’t choose it intentionally, it just happened to be the ball the Dratini I used to breed was in

So fucking excited for PLZA

God has seen fit to curse my Palkia hunt. Now 150 captures and used up my 999 dynite ore.

•Pokémon cannot be transferred from Pokémon Legends: Z-A to previous titles in the Pokémon video game series.

• If you transfer a Pokémon from a previous title to Pokémon Legends: Z-A, you will no longer be able to transfer it to previous video games in the Pokémon series.

>>58241021
desu me too

How big do we think the Legends ZA dex will be?

>>58241627
A bit larger than Hisui's

>>58241021
Thats why I'm trying to farm a gang of shiny Abras lol
Trying to round up most of the mega-capable mons before release

>>58241213
They are definitely changing something in their data structures and can't be arsed to reverse it when appropiate. Good fucking riddance

still grinding in friend safari....

Done about 500 resets for shiny Chimchar in Plat. Gonna be a loong one I can feel it

Up

Continuing Palkia DAs. 1.5x over odds.
Tired of hunting bros. It's the last gen 4 I need before I start doing Arceus SRs.

8 male Popplios later, I finally caught a shiny female Popplio! I hope GF restores Cute Charm's effect in the next game.

>>58245748
congrats on the cute popplio

Anons help me out
I wanna be a fag and name the 2 Raichus I wanna use for Megas with X and Y names

I have a Timid Excited Mark one named Ticker, but I could change his name to Yellow Belly
I also have a blank Raichu I could call Yotta
For X, I'm gonna go with "Xenon," which is the gas inside lightbulbs

What do you guys think

>>58246028
Antennas are loosely electrical. You could call it Yagi.

>get shiny alpha Lucario in PLA
>get ribbons from PLA
>transfer to BDSP and get ribbons from there
>do the same for SWSH
>finally SV for marks
>move to PLZA to mega evolve
>can't move back anymore
Man... Gen 10 has to be extra good so you don't even want to transfer back

>>58217445 (OP)
Do you like this shiny?

877 eggs, no shinies
37 perfect 0Atk Abras

I had 2 shinies in the first batch of eggs by 670 where did all my luck go

>>58246401
into the 0 Atk Abras, duh
Is a shiny 0 Atk even possible

>>58246436
I have 2, but they're both 4IV, rather than 5

The Abra I'm using to breed is 5IV with 0Atk, holding the Power item that forces the holders Atk to get passed down
The other parent is 6IV Japanese Ditto with a Destiny Knot

>>58246436
i managed a shiny 0 speed A vulpix that i wanted to cuck pelippers with

>>58217445 (OP)
What happened to /shg/ ? Shiny hunting is more popular now than it ever was but the threads stopped.

>>58247177
spergs and tranime posters debated every thread what shiny hunting meant in the era of higher shiny chances and what constitutes a "real" shiny.
It got old. 4chan itself is also not what it used to be, the younger generation isn't using it because it has been ran into the ground since hiroshimoot by the jannies and mods.

>>58247158
You thought it was a cool mark?
Too bad, it was just me.

>>58247360
Fuck you. Would rather not even get a mark. Cock sucking, mother fucking piece of dog shit. I wanna stab the bitch who thought it was a good idea to put this constipation prize of a mark in. No that wasn't an autocorrect of consolation prize by the way. This mark is a giant pile of crap and I HATE it.

>>58246028
XtragaY

>>58247449
:'(

And with that, I’ve got all the pseudo legendaries with marks or in some way ‘unique.’

>>58248700
Male btw, my normal Goodra is a Lively girl

>>58248705
i love the way people here talk about their shinies as beloved pets

Trying to recall all the shinies I've gotten just hunting Palkia. I'm now double over odds.
Rotom, Nidoqueen, Obstagoon, Exeggutor, Musharna, Golduck, Scolipede, Mimikyu, Gastrodon

>>58248999
I love Musharna

>>58249021
I remember using it in the Gen 6 Battle Maison as a baton passer.

>>58248999
How do you phase on Palkia?
Did you fall for the dynameme?

>>58249039
If your goal was total number of shinies, then DA is very effective.
I've done months of soft resetting in the past, while DA is infuriating and sucks it's still faster and I get shinies I would never have bothered hunting otherwise.

>>58239904
n o t
a n
a r g u m e n t

>>58249481
There is no argument.
c o p e
a n d
s e e t h e

>>58246401
Managed a 3rd shiny after another 40 or so eggs, another 4IV OAtk
I wanted the whole family, and the female gender difference if I could swing it, but I'm kinda burnt out

Should I keep going or call it good for now

BUMP

Is there a way to tell if a Pokemon is hacked? I got a shiny chimchar through the surprise trade in Pokemon SV.

>>58250513
If you got it from someone else, it's most likely hacked.

>>58250513
Always assume.
Look at the Trainer ID too, there's some notorious ones out there. I just release them, the shinies are only worth it if I hunted them and I wouldn't trade them away.

I wonder what the shiny hunting method in ZA will be…

>>58250635
I just hope they bring back the sparkle sound, even if it means nerfing the rate.

>>58250635
Running around

bumpa

Ultra Ball is kicking my ass. Death to all mental herb Magearna

>>58252310
Use a reg I team?
Just beat Magearna bro, ez
This isn't shiny hunting though.

>>58252323
Gotta get my battle marks on my shiny mythicals bro

You ever just get a personality mark you don't like at all

>>58220069
bro that pic looks like such shit
I made it

FUCK I just found a shiny Clefairy in PLA then it immediately ran away. Oh well at least I got shiny Oshawott and Bergmite yesterday.

>>58252629
save any time you hear the shiny sound. if you fail a shiny in PLA, it instantly respawns when you reload

>>58252635
Thanks for the tip

>>58252635
If you have to reload, you did NOT catch the shiny

>>58252409
that's cute though, imagine him doing this with his big meaty hands

>>58252664
If you have to wipe, you did NOT phantom the brown

>>58252409
I got flustered on an apple I turned into Hydrapple but I like it because it kind of matches Kieran’s personality.

Swear I've been hunting this Celebi for over a year

>>58253474
I hatched mine from a Magikarp egg with the Coin Case

>>58217445 (OP)
I am 1800 soft resets into a registeel hunt and I haven't done my daily 200 yet

pls Palkia
no more

>>58253961
How many phases?

>>58253474
I finally got my Go one this year

>>58253977
Yes. Probably 11, some of them were on resets.
The odds overall are favorable, but Palkia has not been given the number of encounters with it specifically.

>>58253846
What program is that?

I haven't bought a main line pokemon since platinum. I mostly got filtered by IV breeding and the ridiculous amount of time it took. is getting really good IVs still a nightmare in modern pokemon? I heard that one get let you use items to boost them and change natures/EVs etc.? let's say I want to buy the latest games, how difficult is it to get a shiny pokemon with the nature + ability + IVs I want? or should I just not bother?

>>58254201
Has been really easy since gen 6 and arguably gen 5.
In gen 6, GF changed the destiny knot from passing on 3IVs(gen 5) to 5IVs(gen 6+) from the parents. Everstone still keeps the nature, etc.

>>58254201
Oh yeah, since gen 8 they introduced an item called an "ability patch" which can give a pokemon its hidden ability.
The ability capsule can also allow a pokemon to switch between its normal abilities if it has 2.

Bottle caps are a mew mechanic from gen 7(?) where you can max out a pokemon's otherwise imperfect IV.

EV training is unchanged.

>>58254292
>>58254299
ok so it's a lot easier now?

>>58254201
Natures and IVs are irrelevant as you can overwrite them with mints and bottle caps, unless you want perfect genes for bragging rights, or unless you want 0Atk for a Special Attacker

Shiny Hunting is very easy, and only gets easier if you complete the in-game Pokedex for any given title to get the odds booster + breed with Pokémon from 2 separate languages of origin

You could easily raw dog a shiny without the extra effort to make it easier, but at that point its just a matter of how much time you wanna put into it

>>58254292
>arguably gen 5.
BW2 introducing the 100% Everstone is what casualized breeding.

>>58254307
Nothing matters anymore, unless you want to larp as a tryhard and convince yourself you need 0 attack IVs on your Klefki or something
Then you have to spent 15 minutes of effort.

>>58254307
Breeding is still worth it, because when your stat screen says "hyper-trained!" that just means you admitted defeat.

I use lua scripts to rng manipulate easy shinies and transfer them up to pokemon home and nobody can stop me. I have saved hundreds of hours and my pokemon are the same as yours.

>>58253846
You will get it. Spent 1 year on mine, 3K encounters on wormholes because I botched its first shiny encounter and it struggled to death so I had to encounter my shiny Regi...again

Another day another 200 resets without a shiny

>>58255013
Can I use this app to track marks, which shinies I have, and things like that? I don’t like counting encounters but the rest would be nice

>>58255075
Oh, and game of origin. For some reason that's important to me.

>>58254568
It's the struggle giving them value. If you lose yours on a save, oh well you can make more.

>>58255075
It tracks the shinies you caught, the amount of encounters/eggs it took, the time you finished the hunt, and the nature

NEW ONE QUICK

>>58255891
RAYQUAZA USE DRAGON ASCENT