Shiny Only Playthrough ✨

[tawdry rover]

wooo lvl25 Wartortle

[dusk sorrel]

If you want my opinion I always do greenisle for events

Never changed it

I get high scores and diff variety

Plus more spawns anyway

Plus any shiny helps me really even at this point

[rigid vapor]

See, that's sadly not my case

You already have a strong foundation

I don't ;-;

[dusk sorrel]

Then do what’s best for you !

Whatever gon help your squad out the most

I like greenisle because I have good weeks but I for sure plan on hunting lapis

[buoyant fiber]

I'll be going GG too

Look at this handsome man!

According to nitoyon it gets about 70 sausages a day which is great because my pot size is 27 so if I check enough I'm able to make three meals a day with sosig filler

[rigid vapor]

Your charizard is so busted

you're so lucky having a great mon to start with

[rigid vapor]

Jigglypuff fl10 ✅

[buoyant fiber]

Niice

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah I'm very happy it was a good roll

Also my HB raticate helping his output

[rigid vapor]

Only 10 more levels to go

This candy boost is making me broke tho

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah candy boost is rough

But when he gets there it'll be great!

[rigid vapor]

I'll you guess his nature

There's a reason I didn't show it

[buoyant fiber]

Exp-?

[rigid vapor]

+ing -soh

worst possible nature

[buoyant fiber]

Oof

[rigid vapor]

yeah

[strange finch]

This is cool

[tawdry rover]

guys guys guys

And the stats are actually okay!

[dusk sorrel]

WOAH

WWWWW

Double helping speed and skill trigger

[buoyant fiber]

Nice!

[rigid vapor]

WOOOOOO

Let's goo

CONGRATS!!!

such a usable and useful shiny too

[rigid vapor]

ngl I'm pretty jealous, the kanto starters are so useful, and they all have great shinies

I have none tho

On a better note tho I caught my first stufful

[rigid vapor]

join us

[buoyant fiber]

If only you'd started out with a starter like us

You would have one

Where's my next shiny at btw

[rigid vapor]

yeah

[tawdry rover]

I really was expecting a rat or a Pichu. I’ll very much take this, though! And give ‘im the next main skill seed I get, probably.

[buoyant fiber]

Both my shinies are lvl 30 which is my cap and it's horrible I have nothing to improve

[strange finch]

Maybe when I have more than one shiny

[dusk sorrel]

Nice lil dish my shiny team cooked up

[buoyant fiber]

Nice!

[rigid vapor]

Uh, same

Curry is my worst meal tho

[buoyant fiber]

Hi hello my name is Lisa and I still make the 1-ing meals

[rigid vapor]

one day

u will make 1000 ing meals

[buoyant fiber]

Well I've been filling up my pot every time but only one different ingredient in the recipe

It sucks cuz hardly any level bonus

[tawdry rover]

I’ve been able to make the apple pie for about 2/3 of the meals this week, which is nice. My current roster has a fair bit of potential for dessert week. Everywhere else, though…

[rigid vapor]

Anotha one

[rigid vapor]

WOOO HOOOO

I GOT A SHINY

THE SUBSKILLS ARE GOOD

WAIT A SECOND

[buoyant fiber]

-SHOWSTATS

[paper iris]

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[rigid vapor]

Shiny cat

[buoyant fiber]

Omg show stats

[rigid vapor]

I wonder what the stats are

[buoyant fiber]

[buoyant fiber]

I'm gonna smack you if you don't send them within- oh there they are

That's solid

[rigid vapor]

gha50

yeah

[buoyant fiber]

I want a new shiny :((

Running 2 mons ain't it fam

[rigid vapor]

It honestly doesn't have anything "bad" going for it

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah even the inventory is solid

[rigid vapor]

unlike all my other shinies

[rigid vapor]

I just had my longest dry streak

You'll get yours soon

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah but you never had to struggle with only two mons

Though i can reach M1 with these two

And also I found out I made my bean burger curry too strong; I can't make the apple curry with sausage filler, it'll make beanburger curry instead

But I unlocked beans with my raticate so I'll be using that as filler too

[rigid vapor]

LOL

The cat stood up

And I'm honestly happy with milk at 30

6 milk is a lot for me

and while I didn't have a milk farmer until now, I did have some sort of farmer for potatoes

[buoyant fiber]

I think different ingredients are very important

[rigid vapor]

Ye

[tawdry rover]

Ooo, congrats! That's both a good shiny and some solid stats.

Meanwhile I've just caught a shiny Jiggly on my main, which makes the 2nd shiny Jiggly and the 4th shiny of this line that I have on that account, so now I'm trying to figure out if there's something I can kinda give my alt so that said shiny benefits it. Might just buy a couple bucks worth of diamonds.

also caught this basically perfect non-shiny on my alt

[rigid vapor]

Probably would have been better with ing f instead of sts but still really good imo

[rigid vapor]

Ty! It's my first "goodish" shiny so I'm super excited

[tawdry rover]

I'd at least strongly consider using that on my main, never mind using it on a shiny-only account.

Out of 31 shinies on my main, only two are particularly good, and one of those is a Togekiss. Though it's a really good Togekiss. My other one is a decent (mono tomato, ing finder nature, inventory L) Abomasnow.

And I can feel my brain trying to build some kind of superstition around my shiny-only account having gotten two shinies so quickly and having one of those be quite good compared to most of what I get on my main.

Us humans are great at pattern recognition. Unfortunately that does mean we sometimes recognition a pattern that doesn't actually exist. I saw so much superstition going on around Pokemon Go when it first came out and when they first released shinies in that game- things like "if you buy something with real money you'll be more likely to get a shiny in the next few hours".

[rigid vapor]

fr

[dusk sorrel]

So even though I haven’t got a single shiny through all these events basically the entire month of April

One brightside

Got my first lvl 65

[dusk sorrel]

It’s payment for all the time suffered on Pikachu

[tawdry rover]

now see the caveman part of my brain that hasn’t heard of science yet really wants to believe that

Either way, this account’s going great. I’m a week away from unlocking cocoa, less if I can get some Squirtle candies in the meantime, and in 25 more Bulbasaur candies I’ll have an Ivysaur.

That Cresselia event was really helpful. Lots of good stuff in the store.

I have my fingers crossed that this new moon event has boosted shiny chance. Though if it’s going to be a monthly thing like folks are speculating about, that may not be likely.

[buoyant fiber]

Wow he's nice

[dusk sorrel]

Guys I woke up to a shiny !!

after complaining lol

Worth investing ?

I already have a Primeape so I could double up on lapis

[buoyant fiber]

I love it

[bright turtle]

is the other better? shiny bfs berrymon seems like an easy invest on a shiny only account

[buoyant fiber]

Exactly lol

I'd kill for a shiny bfs berry mon

And I desperately need more team members

[dusk sorrel]

My other Primeape is BFS

Should I run two BFS

I’m gonna be on lapis for a while trying to get ralts,stufful and dratini to medal 50

[buoyant fiber]

Yes

Bfs is great

Idk about your other mons tbh but probably you'll get the most strength running 2 bfs

[rigid vapor]

LETS GOOOO

We both got usable shinies

[bright turtle]

would

[tawdry rover]

Two berrymons, ideally both BFS, plus a healer and two ing mons is a team lineup that works in most circumstances.

also thank you friendship-related handy candies

[tawdry rover]

Congrats! Definitely solid- all a berrymon really needs to be decent is BFS.

[tawdry rover]

woooo

thank u friends list handy candies

I think my next move is to get the rat to 30. Not sure if I want to unlock tomatoes on the Ivysaur or evolve it instead- tomatoes don’t have a ton of use at the moment, but more speed always does.

Plus evolving it gets another level on Ing magnet, which is going to be very useful considering that my cocoa gatherer is, uh. not going to be the best at cocoa.

[buoyant fiber]

I personally really like evolving first, unless the new ingredient allows you to make a better recipe but that doesn't seem to be the case

[tawdry rover]

I think it lets me make one additional salad, if I've also unlocked soybeans on the rat, but I'm not sure that's worth it.

The Wartortle I'm happy about because the cocoa unlocks a couple of recipes and also because cocoa's good filler.

[buoyant fiber]

Hmm. Probably gain more value from evolving

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah cacao is really solid

[tawdry rover]

I'm actually doing meal prep this week! Namely: hoarding up all my apples so I'll definitely have enough for the One meal I can make next week.

also giving my Ivysaur a little forehead kiss for having procced Ing Magnet at least 2 times today

And, thanks to another Persim-favoring GG roll, I'm gonna hit U4 this week and complete my first normal weekly "Get Snorlax to X Level" quest!

[rigid vapor]

I got like a total of 13 yesterday

[buoyant fiber]

Wow

[limpid acorn]

Wish i had a third phone to join this challenge

Looks fun af

[rigid vapor]

Do it on your second

[tawdry rover]

You might be able to get one real cheap on Ebay or the like, or from a friend who's upgrading to a new phone.

[tawdry rover]

How rare is Pawmi compared to Eevee? I just noticed Pawmi is in the GG spawn pool, meaning I could try for one as a healer. My other healer option would be Eevee.

Eevee is tempting because there are lots of good shinies in that line and because one that doesn't have good skill mon stats might work okay in a different evo, but Pawmot is a better healer than Sylveon, IIRC, and is also a 3rd stage instead of a 2nd stage.

also why is the shop restocked

does it just restock on the last of the month and I keep forgetting it does that

[rigid vapor]

yes

[buoyant fiber]

Pawmi is quite rare in comparison I think

Eevee has so much potential too that I feel like you'd benefit more from leveling eevee FL than pawmi FL

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, probably. The best 3-stage E4E user I can get at the moment is tempting, though.

I'll probably technically go for Pawmi, but wind up catching lots of Eevees instead while waiting for Pawmis to show up.

[tawdry rover]

Soybeans unlocked!

Which ironically might make cooking harder, since it'll reduce the number of apples my rat gets.

I have a bit of a dilemma coming up for this upcoming event. Raenonx says I'll hit about U4 on GG without any boosted berries (U5 to maybe even M1 with favored berry for my Raticate), U2 on Cyan. U4 gets me an incense, U2 doesn't. But it seems pretty likely that Blissey will have some sort of healing skill, so it might benefit me to go to Cyan to have a better chance at catching Happiny.

Even if it just has Energizing Cheer, eggs are pretty good and a single boost is better than nothin'.

Y'know what- yeah, I'm going to Cyan. Not least as I'd like to evolve my Wartortle. I have... let's see.
7 Squirtle candies right now. If I use the rare candies from the event quest, that's +15 = 23. Looks like I have about 12 friends where I'm going to hit friendship level 1 pretty soon, so that's +36 = 59. I need 80 candies to evolve a Wartortle, meaning I'd need, if my just-ate-breakfast math is correct, 21 more candies. That seems very doable.

[buoyant fiber]

Cyan slumbering has great spawns too, I think there's quite a few that would be great if you could get a shiny

Cyan slumbering one of my faves

[tawdry rover]

Getting a Totodile would be super good for future Cyan weeks.

Oh, here’s that photo I took when I noticed something cool in catching my tutorial shiny.

Behold: a shiny that did not crit.

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah the tutorial always does that regardless of shiny

Kinda sad

[tawdry rover]

It does make sense, as otherwise the crit might be confusing for newbies. I just thought it was neat that they've somehow locked the tutorial catch out of critting entirely, even for a shiny. Glad they did that instead of just making this catch shiny-locked.

I do hope they locked the rest of the spawns, because it'd suck for someone to get a shiny during the tutorial and not be able to catch it.

random shiny Doduo taunting you as you catch your regular Squirtle

[buoyant fiber]

They did yeah

As in

[tawdry rover]

Ah, good.

The devs seem to be pretty sensible for this game.

[buoyant fiber]

I'm not sure cuz I don't datamine but I know no one has ever mentioned one of them being shiny, and the odds of it being possible but not having happened yet are incredibly small. Same thing with shiny starterchu

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah sometimes lol

[tawdry rover]

I'm impressed that so far I can't think of a bad change they've made to the game in updates. I know some exploit removals have made some folks mad, but I don't count that.

They've made some slightly questionable balancing choices, is about the worst of it.

After Pokemon Go, it's a breath of fresh air.

Like- this most recent update, with the friendship level change? As far as I can tell, this is the perfect solution to the problem they fixed, and they've now added a way to shiny-hunt that fits in well with the rest of the game.

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah it's great

[limpid acorn]

I'm too commited to the Pokemon I've got now it'd be a really difficult decision haha but I'm considering it but I don't see myself doing it

[tawdry rover]

third account

[buoyant fiber]

I've just got my Pichu to FL10 and I'll be forcing slumbering from now on until I find my next shiny

Eventually I'll get one, surely

[tawdry rover]

🤝

[tawdry rover]

Kinda doing too well this week. My Pichu spawns are getting drowned out by other stuff.

Very slowly working on Magnemites whenever that happens and I have my bonus biscuit to give.

[buoyant fiber]

I'm just feeding berry mons atp lmao

Only with bonus, unless more are hungry

[rigid vapor]

New shiny

Too bad it's not an ing mon

Looks like I'm never gonna use it

Angry boi

[dusk sorrel]

Chef Primape W

[rigid vapor]

He's about to get me 1 mushroom every hour lets gooooo

[dusk sorrel]

See already using them mushrooms to good use

[rigid vapor]

From my quagsire

[rigid vapor]

I'm never using that primeape

[buoyant fiber]

Seriously if only this was an ing mon

In other news, I'm still running 2 teammates

[dusk sorrel]

Not true because I’m your teammate

[rigid vapor]

chikorita bronze badge ✅

[tawdry rover]

My guy's all growed up! Thank you, shop bundles with handy candies.

also

👀
E4E Blissey

[rigid vapor]

yeah, seems like an interesting mon for sure

[tawdry rover]

Parking myself firmly on Cyan and using a GCT for this week. I want as many Happiny as I can reasonably get.

[tawdry rover]

time for my 100% legit real nap to use a Happiny incense and get a full 2 hungry mons

[dusk sorrel]

I never really check all the updates but is happiny worth it?

Just an egg chef?

[tawdry rover]

My understanding is that it's solid for eggs if you get an AAA one, and it has the nice little side bonus of the E4E skill. It's nowhere near as good as a skill mon for E4E, but it's more than nothin', and at the moment I have basically nothin'.

[dusk sorrel]

LETS GOOO

W start to the week

Now time to sleep

[tawdry rover]

aa jealous

[buoyant fiber]

LETS GOOOO

I'm just jealous of the fact you have another GOOD SHINY

(Yes I'm qualifying simply if+ as good)

[bright turtle]

bro already got a shiny 💀

@dusk sorrel check #1194318538652000357 if your chansey was anything else than the 1* sleepstyle

[rigid vapor]

WOAHHH

Btw if you get it to 2000 sleep hours it's better than Blissey at 2000 hours

It literally just becomes better

And it's a better shiny too

[tawdry rover]

Ah yes, after 2/3 a year of sleep.

(good to know tho)

[buoyant fiber]

Hmm if you sleep for the full 12h30m every day you can get to that ribbon in less than half a year

[dusk sorrel]

I didn’t even know this existed lol

[dusk sorrel]

You saying I should leave it as Chansey?

[dusk sorrel]

Love my shinies

[formal frigate]

At the end it all goes down to inventory and what suits your chansey better... I recommend you to check out brovinnie's youtube video on chansey

[lean lance]

chansey shiny better tho

grats on the shiny :D

[rigid vapor]

that's what I'm also saying

[dusk sorrel]

I think imma evolve it just for the aesthetic

I like Blissey more anyway

[rigid vapor]

Got my third Shiny pichu today

Not too good stats tho

[tawdry rover]

ver nice still

also I have learned something I was already pretty sure of: rock-form sleep and atop-belly sleep shiny Ditto don't look shiny until they wake up and stop being rocks.

[buoyant fiber]

Dangggg nice

[tawdry rover]

I always wind up looking so hard at the Igglybuffs in case they’re shiny.

[rigid vapor]

I know the diglet's rocks are slightly darker

Wait

You said ditto

Whoops

I can't read

[tawdry rover]

I did say Ditto. But also yes darker rocks on Diglett.

I’ve gotten a couple shinies each from both things in that line on my main.

Me squinting at the first one like “does that look weird”

look at this god eggything my main caught

[rigid vapor]

DAMN

THATS INCREDIBLY LUCKY

congrats!

[rigid vapor]

My shiny luck has been insane recently

Also,

[buoyant fiber]

Omg so cute

[rigid vapor]

It's... Interesting

[buoyant fiber]

Usable

[tawdry rover]

weh

jealous

[rigid vapor]

I had high hopes but I calculated it and...

Not as good as I thought

gha75 tho

[tawdry rover]

wooo Happiny FL10 for me

[rigid vapor]

nice!

[tawdry rover]

I don’t know why I keep checking my game like there’s something in here I can do.

[rigid vapor]

dw I check my game like 15 times a day

[rigid vapor]

Somehow managed to save enough ings to make this, no extra tasty tho

[dusk sorrel]

Fire dish

A whole chef

[rigid vapor]

ty

[tawdry rover]

New guy! And he’s good! And cool!

[dusk sorrel]

WOAH!!

Congrats !!

[tawdry rover]

He's gonna get me taters!

And oil!

[tawdry rover]

Well okay then!

[bright turtle]

hb

[tawdry rover]

yayyyy full team

with HB!

aaaand I am not allowed to name this rat “assistant”

[rigid vapor]

nice rat

[tawdry rover]

Ooo, nice!

[buoyant fiber]

That actually looks so similar to mine

Mine also had exp+ and hb first slot and ab

[buoyant fiber]

Also I am so jealous rn but also genuinely happy for you

[tawdry rover]

This new one is now named Usurper, because of the two Raticate I'm going to wind up with, I know which one is staying on the team longer-term and it ain't that first one.

[buoyant fiber]

[tawdry rover]

I kinda expect to get more rats, between how common they are and the little boost from FL10.

gonna pull up to Snowdrop with five burnt rats

[buoyant fiber]

I was hoping that'd happen to me. So far, still on 2 shinies

[tawdry rover]

Here's hoping you get a streak of good luck soon. Ideally a two-at-once.

[buoyant fiber]

Ideally a sleep session with only shinies

[tawdry rover]

three shiny Pichus and nothing else

[buoyant fiber]

I'm still forcing slumbering hoping pichu will shine or maybe squirtle (I'll also accept totodile)

[tawdry rover]

I'm doing that for naps, but only for naps, so I can hopefully keep the total Slumbering percentage from getting too silly.

[buoyant fiber]

My slumbering percentage is so high that if I have a little bit of dozing or snoozing at the end, I get balanced

[tawdry rover]

Last night I got Slumbering on my main and Dozing on my alt, when the two phones had been right next to each other, so somethin is clearly going on.

[buoyant fiber]

Lol

[tawdry rover]

I gotta say, as happy as I am to finally get the fifth member and stop having to remember to take new catches off the team in the morning, and as much as I appreciate the HB, I'm still real tickled with this Riolu.

I am not immune to Lucario Cool

[buoyant fiber]

I want a dsm mon

It'd be so helpful

[tawdry rover]

I have a feeling there's going to be a sort of ebb-and-flow of shard supply. You [general] get a new mon that you happen to have candies for, or unlock a new pot level, you use up all your shards. Then you go for awhile without new pot levels, new mons, or candy/demand for existing mons, and you end up with a heap.

oh wait I can unlock a pot upgrade now actually

yayy pot size 33

smoothie time

[buoyant fiber]

I used to be hecking low until luck incense + cress incense

Now I've upgraded my pot to also be 33 a few days ago, and I'm out again

[tawdry rover]

I think that same combo is why I've managed to get a couple of lvl30 mons at this point.

[buoyant fiber]

But also my two mons are about to hit my level cap AGAIN so I'm not using it to level much

[tawdry rover]

I also haven't been leveling my Blastoise or Raticate, because neither is very good and I want to save the shards. Also because I was expecting another rat at some point.

[buoyant fiber]

It sucks how only having 2 mons really gatekeeps my progress because I get not a lot of strength compared to 5 members so I get way less shards from sleep as well

Though I'm surprised at how far you can get with just two level 30 mons

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, this game is really not designed for this silly thing to be done with it.

At least this last event with the salads was helpful. I'll gladly take boosted meal strength, even if I did only have the ability to make one salad type.

[buoyant fiber]

Too bad, I do shiny challenges in every game

[buoyant fiber]

Sameeeee

[tawdry rover]

Glad I had a Raticate for this event, because otherwise I woulda been making Bowl Of Milk all week.

[buoyant fiber]

Loll

[tawdry rover]

A couple days ago I got the recipes chart and made a little thingy for myself of what recipes I can actually make.

Left is stuff I don't at all have the mons for, middle is stuff I'll be able to make once I level up mons I currently have, right is what I can make now.

You might notice that there are all of two entries in the salads category, and one of them I only unlocked after the event.

I have a desserts team, apparently. I'm making the chocolate tart this week, which as far as I'm concerned, is a pretty solid recipe.

[buoyant fiber]

That's rough

[buoyant fiber]

Squirtle is so good for desserts

On the other hand charizard is good at curries, and venusaur.. exists

I would never go for Venu on such a challenge because you already have honey unlocked by default so you're missing out on unlocks

[tawdry rover]

Squirtle and Raticate together make four dishes on their own. Six, once you get the honey from- yep, the default.

Oh, whoops, that vegetable juice shouldn't be in the unlocked desserts yet, I'm not at tomatoes.

[buoyant fiber]

And technically raticate isn't even needed for that

[tawdry rover]

Nope, since tutorial apples and card rewards.

[buoyant fiber]

Yep

Ing magnet and tickets will do the rest

[tawdry rover]

Ing Magnet surprisingly helpful in the early game of this challenge.

I think I'm gonna be getting more oil from it than from this Riolu for quite awhile, for one thing.

I know where all my rare candies are going for awhile. I need 80 to get a Lucario, and I have 16. I also need Rattata candies, but those aren't exactly gonna be difficult to get ahold of, whereas Riolu...

[buoyant fiber]

True lol

[tawdry rover]

Makes me once again want a mon with a skill that gives you candies for a random active mon. Not that I'd be able to hunt it if such a thing existed.

[buoyant fiber]

I had hope for Chansey because of Lucky Egg

But I don't mind e4e either

[tawdry rover]

Because I do think that could be an interesting skill. Niche use, since like DSM it doesn't directly contribute to Snorlax strength, but fun.

Yeah, E4E is nice. I hope we get a couple more non-skill-specialist E4E users, because then there'd be the option to use multiple of them instead of one skill specialist. It'd take a lot of doing to be as good as a Gardevoir and its ability to stack two procs, but I bet hitting "eh, that works" would be much easier.

Still hoping for a shiny Happiny. I managed to get FL10 during the event, but I suspect these are going to be kinda rare outside said event.

[buoyant fiber]

Possibly

[tawdry rover]

My main goal is definitely still Pichu, because Raichu is so fast and so relatively-easy to evolve. A half-decent Raichu would carry. I'm also aiming for Charmander, Totodile, Doduo, and Cleffa. Charmander to complete the starter set (and because it's good, and because I want sausage), the other three for Cyan utility. I'd love a Cyndaquil, but I really doubt I'm gonna be able to level those at any notable pace. And eventually I'd rather like a Cramorant, just because I love its goofy little face.

[buoyant fiber]

https://images-ext-1.discordapp.net/external/qZm6vTqpfGehXx-rK_1f5n86SBcJ8fuav-djSiG_XEQ/https/play.pokemonshowdown.com/sprites/ani-shiny/cramorant-gorging.gif

[tawdry rover]

I’m still really entertained that they went “okay, so for this new arrival in our cute Pokémon game, have it actively trying to swallow our mascot alive”.

[buoyant fiber]

It's really funny

How would he ever even fit through that neck

[tawdry rover]

You should see what herons can swallow. That’s not as big an exaggeration as you might think.

Is there a shiny you’d like purely for its own sake rather than for practicality?

[buoyant fiber]

YES

I love blue shinies and back/white shinies. So there's a few shinies I'd like just for the shiny

But also they'd be relatively useful

Such as swalot. And ralts

But I would also quite like a shiny Gastly, Psyduck or togepi

All for cuteness

[tawdry rover]

Oh, those would be good.

[buoyant fiber]

Also shiny Dratini is so adorable

Fuck shiny Dragonite though

[tawdry rover]

I’d like a Fuecoco eventually, and also catching a 3rd evo of just about anything would have major cool factor.

[buoyant fiber]

If i ever get a shiny Dratini I'm so gonna run it as a Dratini forever

[buoyant fiber]

This is so true

[tawdry rover]

Not a Dragonair?

[buoyant fiber]

Fuecocos shiny is so cute

[buoyant fiber]

Dragonair is acceptable but I just love shiny Dratini

[tawdry rover]

fair

bubblegum noodle

Oh, Dedenne. I’d absolutely love a shiny Dedenne for this account.

[buoyant fiber]

Omg yes

[tawdry rover]

Chocolate luck mouse.

[buoyant fiber]

Omg shiny sableye

[tawdry rover]

oo

[buoyant fiber]

And sneasellllll

[tawdry rover]

Toxicroak has a good color, too.

[buoyant fiber]

Shiny grubbin is cute too

[buoyant fiber]

Omg yes

[tawdry rover]

Clefable and Meowsquarada are some really nice subtle shinies.

[buoyant fiber]

True

[tawdry rover]

And I like Wiggly and the different eyes.

For cool factor it’d be hard to beat a Tyranitar, technically-less-ideal be damned.

like just a full shiny Tyranitar

[buoyant fiber]

Wiggly is so cute but my main has a shiny wiggly who is dope so I don't want one on my alt

Don't want her to feel like she has competition

[tawdry rover]

I’d say a legendary would be the coolest, except that with the incenses during their events it might actually be easier to get a shiny legendary (if you’re around for its event) than a shiny TTar.

[buoyant fiber]

Well

Larvitar incense is a thing, is it not?

[tawdry rover]

Yes, but that attracts Larvitar.

I mean a wild shiny Tyranitar.

[buoyant fiber]

Ooooh

Yeah a new legendary would be easier lol

[tawdry rover]

I got, hang on, let me check.

I got four Cresselia encounters and one incense to save for later, on an account that I made partway through the second Cresselia week. Now, a good bit of that was because of the thousand diamonds in the gifts menu and the Last Chance bundles, but still- that’s 5 Cresselia attempts. I’m not sure how long it would take to see 5 Tyranitars, but I’d wager quite a long time.

[buoyant fiber]

Yep

But on the other hand, once a legendary has had it's event it'll be even harder to find than ttar

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, that’s the flip side.

[buoyant fiber]

So for a while you'll have better odds on the legendary, but after seeing 5 ttars you'll forever have a better shot at ttar than the legendary

[tawdry rover]

Shiny not-during-event legendary is very, very cool. TTar does get extra points for being cool in itself.

[buoyant fiber]

True

[tawdry rover]

Oh, another wishlist thought- there are the mons that I just don’t tend to use because I could be using something else. Braviary, Drifblim, and the like. I’d like getting to play with those in here.

[buoyant fiber]

Shiny arcanine

Pls

[tawdry rover]

Ooh, yes.

[buoyant fiber]

Also shiny drifloon is cute af

[tawdry rover]

Agreed.

[buoyant fiber]

I also definitely would not mind a shiny swablu

[tawdry rover]

Stays pretty good when it evolves, too.

Oo, Swablu.

[buoyant fiber]

Shiny pooper is cute too

[dusk sorrel]

CONGRATS!! Show the team off

[dusk sorrel]

That team is better than mine !!

What a start

[dusk sorrel]

Another one

This one is terrible so I won’t show the stats but hey 3 primeapes now

[tawdry rover]

oh hey what a coincidence

what is my luck

[tawdry rover]

Having put these in Raenonx, I think I’m going to just keep this Mankey on my team until it unlocks me some sausage, because the HB Rattata beats it for strength gains at the moment. Once I eventually get this Rattata to a lvl30 Raticate, it can replace my existing Raticate and this guy can take its slot.

[buoyant fiber]

-happy4u

[paper iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1131595498009133067/1287420807420837929/RDT_20240922_1030242794774818227827797.jpg?ex=66f17b8f&is=66f02a0f&hm=252eb10626d4ab37d0288454fbce9c37b5225f68210406cc013350e88d6e50e6&

[dusk sorrel]

Okay twin I see you

My boy really progressing crazy

[tawdry rover]

game's really trying to compensate me for that Pikachu thing

I went and counted my different badges. This account has seen about 400 Pokemon. Five of them have been shiny.
(not counting my Squirtle in that because there was a lot of resetting.)

[dusk sorrel]

1 n 80 odds is wild

[rigid vapor]

fr

I can't complain tho

I've been getting a ton of shinies too

I might have to also use mythicals

[dusk sorrel]

Yeah so let’s talk about that

If we can’t get Darkrai shiny

What’s the plan w mythicals

[rigid vapor]

It's up to you

[dusk sorrel]

Why do I get to choose

I can’t even delete it

[rigid vapor]

cuz u the og

[dusk sorrel]

I usually delete all the legends

But Darkrai be chilling

He don’t wanna dip

[rigid vapor]

So do I, unless they're op

[rigid vapor]

Then let him stay?

idk

[dusk sorrel]

And what happens if later on the road they add a way to turn Darkrai shiny

I’d be mad if I didn’t invest

[rigid vapor]

just sleep on it

I'll probably invest since I got bfs

what did u get @dusk sorrel?

[dusk sorrel]

I haven’t even looked at Darkrai

I’ll check rn

I got ing finder M

[tawdry rover]

👀

apparent boosted shiny chance for new moon event

monthly new moon event.

[buoyant fiber]

Ayooo

Finally something to use incenses with

I've decided that I'm gonna use darkrai simply because I'm literally running 2 mons and I'm tired

[tawdry rover]

fair

[rigid vapor]

fair

what subskill/ing did u get?

[buoyant fiber]

Ifm

[rigid vapor]

Rip

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah it's meh

[rigid vapor]

ig I'm the only lucky one

[buoyant fiber]

My main got REB

[rigid vapor]

damn

ig that's worse

[buoyant fiber]

Yep

[tawdry rover]

My main got BFS. I'll take it.

[buoyant fiber]

Jesus

Where has my luck gone

That's dope though

BFS is the dream

[rigid vapor]

yeah

my main also got bfs

also

I just removed some inactive friends if anyone here doesn't have me friended I would appreciate it
0048-6292-7601

[tawdry rover]

Sent you a request from my main.

[rigid vapor]

[bright turtle]

i'll keep you guys in mind whenever i get open slots, would love to be able to see your progress that way

[buoyant fiber]

ME ME ME

wait maybe we already are friends

lemme check

[buoyant fiber]

Added you on both accs

[rigid vapor]

[rigid vapor]

I have some to announce

I am officially going to use only shines and legendaries/mythicals

my legendaries are all good and that was what actually brought me to the game, I started playing when Suicine was released, and he's also my most broken legendary so yeah

[dusk sorrel]

Good on you soldier

I’ve decided I’m not gonna use Darkrai he can just sit in my pc

[rigid vapor]

[buoyant fiber]

Got a subseed from an achievement and it hit perfectly

[tawdry rover]

I gotta figure out where I'm going for this new moon event. It's either GG or Cyan.

Cyan would mean a higher chance of Murkrow, which would be nice, but I think I may have to go for GG due to Cyan not having Pichu. I should probably take the increased shiny chance for Pichus.

[rigid vapor]

wait why does cyan have a greater chance of murkrow?

[buoyant fiber]

Cyan has a smaller pool

[tawdry rover]

Yep.

[rigid vapor]

ah got it

I thought it was something else

[tawdry rover]

I don't think it'll be on Cyan after the few days of the event, so I'm not sure whether a higher chance of them for three days beats having the full week of them.

[rigid vapor]

I'll probably just go to cyan

I can make it to like master 10 there if I get desserts/salads

if I get curry tho...

Im cooked

[buoyant fiber]

Wow

[tawdry rover]

reroll ticket time

[rigid vapor]

nah idc that much about it

I'll probably still hit like master 8

which is good enough

[rigid vapor]

ofc I get extra tasty during lunch when I used like 50 leeks during breakfast and only had scraps left to make this

Still tho

[buoyant fiber]

I didn't get a single crit today on either of my accounts

So I feel ya

[rigid vapor]

rip

that's worse than my situation

but I've been there before

funny enough I actualy crit 3 times during this week without any bonus so that was a pleasant surprise

[buoyant fiber]

That's nice

Ive finally almost fully recovered from my mistake of leveling the bean burger curry

It made using sausage as filler in other curries a pain in the ass xd

[buoyant fiber]

GUYS OH MY GOD

[bright turtle]

congrats!!

[buoyant fiber]

Look at my babiesssss

I've given my MSS to the Shoop because it's actually not half bad

[dusk sorrel]

CONGRATS

That’s such a lovely shiny

Good sub skills aswell

[buoyant fiber]

I'm very happy with it

Gonna help me so much

My main limiting aspect right now is research level cuz I can't level my mons further, hopefully the boost in strength will help me with that

[tawdry rover]

ohhh nice

[tawdry rover]

Gotta figure out if I want to nap this week. It gets me more spawns and means I can actually hit Slumbering for Pichus, but it means less xp, since the boost is only for the first sleep of the day.

[buoyant fiber]

If your first sleep can be your long sleep, then I think napping is still fine this week

But if the nap would be your first sleep, then no

[rigid vapor]

nooooo -soh

not bad subskills tho

CONGRATS THO

[rigid vapor]

I almost always nap

[buoyant fiber]

THANK YOU

[buoyant fiber]

I try to but often forget

[rigid vapor]

rip

It helps a lot

trust me

[tawdry rover]

I don't on my main unless I'm taking a real-life nap, but I am on this alt, because this alt needs every single spawn it can get.

[rigid vapor]

yup

I've probably gotten almost half of my shinies from naps

[tawdry rover]

Same.

[tawdry rover]

me staring at my friends list like “Rattata candies pls”

“also Mankey and Riolu”

[rigid vapor]

yeah you're never getting those candies

I'm in the same situation for ekans

[tawdry rover]

I get an occasional rat candy, probably from when people don’t have anything better.

If we can get a few more people doing this challenge, we can start our own friendship club where we have a list of whatever mons everyone is trying to level and we try to send one of those.

[buoyant fiber]

We'd need to get a lot of people into the challenge for that

For me though I want rat, Charmander and mareep candy ;)

[tawdry rover]

I need rat, Mankey, and Riolu candies. I'm gonna need about 300 more candies to get this rat to 30 so it can replace my current one, 180 to evolve my Mankey and 380 to unlock mushrooms, and then 46 to evolve my Riolu plus 370 or so to unlock potatoes. Which is a lot of candies now that I actually calculate that.

Riolu is probably priority for now because that's going to be the hardest to find.

[tawdry rover]

Noted! Will try to send those. Particularly as two of them are ones people want anyway.

[rigid vapor]

Uh

I want dream shards

In all seriousness though, I want sprigatitto, magnemite, and meowth candy

good luck

[kindred sail]

I want to join collecting shiny 🏃‍♀️

[rigid vapor]

Then join

[rigid vapor]

My first level 50

[tawdry rover]

oo lemon cobra

nice

[tawdry rover]

Fl18 on Pichus. Making good progress.

Plus 11 on Rattata, 10 on Happiny, and 7 on Spheal.

And I'm two candies from being able to evolve my Riolu! After 69 more hours of sleep.

[rigid vapor]

That's higher than any of mine

[winged pecan]

Just started my alt

Doing something slightly different though, it will be shinies AND eggs

Quick question, did yall use just your starter chu until you found something? Or did you have a full team of whatever until then

[rigid vapor]

Do what you want

Some resetted for a shiny starter, I just started when I got a full team of shinies

Do whatever you have the most fun with

[winged pecan]

Starter chu can be shiny?

[rigid vapor]

No, only the kanto starters

[winged pecan]

Ohh that makes me sense

[rigid vapor]

@tawdry rover found out that the starter pika can't be shiny the hard way

[winged pecan]

I do have a bfs chu, so I'm happy with my start

[rigid vapor]

Nice, just don't get too attached

I had a hard time leaving my previous mons behind

I still have one of them

[winged pecan]

Yeah, I've already started catching more pichus because I assume the strat is to find berry mons shiny first

[rigid vapor]

But I can't bring myself to blend this guy, my rule is that I blend all mons except shinies of course, legendaries and God rolls

[rigid vapor]

Yup

Berry mons are crucial

Healers too

It's really hard to find a decent shiny healer

[winged pecan]

Healers, like any skill mon, are very annoying to find the right one

So finding a shiny one would definitely suck

[winged pecan]

Ooo bfs and hb

[dusk sorrel]

Welcome to the grind !!

We all have different strats

I honestly can’t even recall how I started i remember getting a shiny pikachu n carrying every week w it honestly

[winged pecan]

Hopefully I can find one of my mons fairly soon let's pray the boosted shiny chance next week is good enough

[tawdry rover]

Eggs?

[tawdry rover]

The fastest way to get a shiny is to grind resetting to get a shiny Kanto starter in the tutorial sleep. Should only take a few days at most, whereas your chances of getting a shiny just randomly within a few days are very low.

[winged pecan]

Togepi line, so i can gamble 🎰

[rigid vapor]

LOL

I guess your priority is a shiny Togepi then, good luck

oh btw

what's your friend code

Lemme friend u

[lean lance]

Did someone say shiny togepi

[tawdry rover]

okay that's pretty impressive

[winged pecan]

Oh absolutely, a full team would be the end goal lol

[winged pecan]

2349-9160-2456

[winged pecan]

Dream team

I have a shiny triple trigger togetic on my main

[tawdry rover]

My one really, really good shiny on my main is a Togekiss. It would be perfect stats if I hadn't caught it as the mid-stage.

The best I got otherwise is a perfectly acceptable tomato Abomasnow.

[lean lance]

Mine all suck LMFAO

[tawdry rover]

My alt has a terrible Blastoise, a terrible Raticate, an acceptable Ivysaur (2 speed boosts, no speed or ing down, sadly ABB), a decent Riolu (one speed up, one skill trigger), and a Ratatta that's mostly bad but does have HB10 and is therefore very nice at the moment.

Lisa, was it you who got the really good shiny starter Char?

[buoyant fiber]

My main has an amazing wiggly. My alt has a great charizard and a good raticate and flaaffy

[buoyant fiber]

Hell yeah

[tawdry rover]

nice

[buoyant fiber]

HSS IFS

Which is now upgraded to HSS IFM

[tawdry rover]

My reasonable wish for my starter was "one speed boost, no ing downs", and I got no speed boosts, yes ing down.

[buoyant fiber]

I'm expecting my alt's next few shinies to suck because the first three were all definitely usable

[buoyant fiber]

Rip

My only wish was no ing- for my char

[tawdry rover]

Fortunately, luck doesn't exist and therefore can't be exhausted.

[buoyant fiber]

Ngl if I'd gotten an ing- char with nothing else I might've just kept rolling

[tawdry rover]

I'd rolled wayyyy too many Pikas to want to reset over a shiny.

[winged pecan]

Same

[buoyant fiber]

My char only took like 50 rerolls

I could've kept going

but it was dope so I didn't have to

Starting next week i'll nap again

[tawdry rover]

The next one coulda taken like 400 rolls.

[winged pecan]

My lvl 10 bfs chu is to important to me for me to want to take 100+ more reroll even more

[buoyant fiber]

Could've. But I would've kept the transfer code and just used it if I got too bored

[winged pecan]

Look at my beautiful son on my main

[tawdry rover]

I went for the full only shinies challenge, so the Pikachu didn't matter.

[buoyant fiber]

Hah imagine using the starterchu

[tawdry rover]

I rolled past a god 'chu while I was still looking for a shiny one.

[buoyant fiber]

I did not

I saw 1 BFS but it was at like 75

[tawdry rover]

I reset past a HB10, BFS25, Adamant Pikachu, and if curses existed I'd probably have gotten cursed by the game for that. Or maybe blessed.

[buoyant fiber]

lol

[winged pecan]

I'll probably keep him in the box after I get a full team of tog

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah I'm using darkrai rn cuz I got sick of running only 2 mons for like 2 months

But as soon as I get enough shinies for a full team he's outta here

[tawdry rover]

quietly sips drink in this-game-wants-me-to-believe-in-luck number of shinies

[winged pecan]

Yall think we'll get any shinies next week from the boost?

[tawdry rover]

How many people are in here now? Fiveish?

If someone naps, they'll see a minimum of 6 spawns per day, for an absolute minimum of 42 mons a week. Given a GCT, which I for one plan to use, it's minimum 49.

[winged pecan]

I have like 1800 gems on that account, so I'll probably get a gct for the extra spawns too

[tawdry rover]

42 x 5 = 210, so if the base shiny rate is somewhere in the 1/100-1/200 range, and this week gives an increased chance, I'd say we're pretty likely to have at least one shiny.

I'll be using a GCT and several Pokemon incenses, on both my alt and my main. My main doesn't need shinies quite as badly, but it'd be fun to get some on there anyway.

Probably I'll save my Cress incense for Christmas in case the shiny boost is higher there.

[winged pecan]

How long do you make your sleep sessions usually? Especially for naps

[tawdry rover]

A sleep session has to be minimum 90 minutes to count.

So my naps are 90-95 minutes, and my regular sleeps are however much I actually sleep. Since the amount of sleep time that counts per day is limited, it winds up being 6-7 hours at night with the nap already having happened.

[winged pecan]

Do naps not count if you already hit the 8 and half hours for a full 100 a day?

[tawdry rover]

They do not. You can only get 100 a day, no matter what.

What I do is record sleep overnight, then take a cough cough totally 100% legit nap cough in the morning. I wind up spending my free biscuit on the nap sleep, but oh well- that's the one that'll be Slumbering, so I'm more likely to have a use for it then, since I'm more likely to get Pichus then.

[winged pecan]

Hmm alright, I might have to change my plans then.
I was planning on tracking sleep while I was at work so I could get the full amount, but if I can't also run a nap for extra spawns, I'll just track it at night like usual then take a "nap" when I get home after work

Actually, hold on. I can just not use vibrations on the phone while I'm work, it will cut off at 6 Hours with no movement. So I could still do both

[tawdry rover]

phone sitting there like "boy, does this guy just die for awhile every day or what"

I just have my fingers crossed that I get a shiny Murkrow on this account. I'm not sure I'd wind up using one on my main unless it turns out to be super good somehow, so having one on my alt would mean I have a reason to try it out.

[winged pecan]

I'm really hoping for that too, he's a new gamble mon

[tawdry rover]

yayy ultra 5 on my alt

Charmander incense in the ol' pocket

One of my goals for this account is to have the full Kanto starter set shiny, so I'm absolutely using this incense for this event.

[winged pecan]

The moment I unlock snowdrop on the ult will be a great day, but I know it'll be hell

[tawdry rover]

go to Snowdrop and spend a couple months getting 3 spawns per day

[winged pecan]

Yeah, pretty much

But still better than GG slumbering hoping for a single mon out of 20+ spawns

[tawdry rover]

I'm pretty much going to stick to islands where I can get the quest incense every week, since more spawns is king.

Also I want Pichu FL, and Cyan (which I could also get the incense on) doesn't have Pichus, so I'm pretty much on GG for the next while. Maybe the occasional Cyan when I get super bored.

If this event is super kind and gives me a shiny Charmander, I'd go to Taupe to level it and because that'd give me a favored berry finder there.

GG has been real nice to me this week. Two of my berries are grass and fighting, and I have an Ivysaur, a Riolu, and a Mankey.

[winged pecan]

Ooo nice

I'm hoping my alt is as lucky with shinies as my main has been, stats wise atleast

[tawdry rover]

At least for the next while any "oo, a shiny- aww the stats suck" will be tempered by "but this means I can unlock new ingredients and maybe a new berry type!".

[winged pecan]

I'll be happy with any shiny at the start, because it'll mean i atleast have usable mons outside of tog

[tawdry rover]

I just want more ingredients. Ginger would be really nice.

[winged pecan]

Need that shiny larv

[tawdry rover]

(partly 'cos I accidentally unlocked it by not taking a Cubone off my team in time, so the ginger I get from Ing Magnet is taunting me.)

(I've just been using it as filler only.)

Shiny larv would be amazing.

I've been thinking about what the coolest non-legendary shiny to find wild would be, and I think Steelix wins.

Tyranitar (as in an entire wild Tyranitar, not a Larvitar) probably takes second place, and any fully evolved starter, but especially Charizard, takes third.

Steelix, though-

• big
• rare
• gold
• berrymon that doesn't mind being caught fully evolved
• no seriously even its base form is rare

The day I get a shiny Steelix, especially if it's on this alt, is the day my face becomes permanently stuck in a grin.

[tawdry rover]

Okay, I now have enough candies that, in 58 more hours of sleep, I can evolve this Riolu!

[winged pecan]

Hell yeah! What's the riolu look like?

[tawdry rover]

This.

So, really not bad at all, especially as it being ABC means it has three separate ingredients I can unlock. Even if lvl60 is gonna take a very long time, at least I'll get eggs eventually.

[winged pecan]

Ooo speed up and sts? Nice

[tawdry rover]

I'm tempted to subskill seed this. Resisting temptation for now, but if I find myself repeatedly needing dream shards, that temptation is gonna come back.

[candid hinge]

HELLO

im starting

[tawdry rover]

hallo

[candid hinge]

here is the charmander stats...

its female too!

[winged pecan]

Ingredient down nature hurts, but hb

[candid hinge]

mhmm, mono hb, ill take this any day as my first run pokemon

[tawdry rover]

Huh, that's not half bad. Main skill up is super useful, since that'll mean a steady (if slow) supply of every ingredient you unlock, and HB is of course really nice.

Ideally it'd have ginger at 30 in order to unlock that, but ah well.

[candid hinge]

yeah tbh lol

i feel like abc is better in a shiny run any time

BUT MONO

[tawdry rover]

There's a recipes chart somewhere in #infographics that you could check to see what you might be able to make. You'll unlock apples and honey from the card (and you'll already have apples unlocked from the tutorial Pika collection), so you should at least have one basic meal in every ing category.

[candid hinge]

so, should i delete the pikachu? lol

[tawdry rover]

Could just hang onto it and not put it on the team.

[candid hinge]

hm

[tawdry rover]

But I don't know that there's much point to that. Unless it's an amazing roll you're hoping to one day be able to trade to your main.

[candid hinge]

bit funny

ill bin it for candies

[tawdry rover]

Wanna try and guess what your next shiny catch is?

[candid hinge]

wobbuffet

every time

hopefully ill get one on the new moon day

having only one mon seems rough lol

[tawdry rover]

You might not see Wobbu for a bit.

Gotta get to, looks like Basic 4 on GG.

[candid hinge]

hm

then wynut

best shiny would just be a pichu, mhmm

[tawdry rover]

I always figure my next one is gonna be a rat or a Pichu.

[candid hinge]

may i see what your account looks like, how long have you been on the challenge?

[tawdry rover]

yeah one sec

I got my starter partway through the second week of the Cress event, I can say that much.

April 9, looks like.

The event was super helpful due to all the free and basically-free manes I got and the stuff I bought with them, plus the 1000 diamonds waiting in the gifts section.

Note that this is a statistically unusual number of shinies.

When I last did the math after catching that Mankey, I'd had an average of 1 shiny per 80 mons seen, not counting all the rerolling I did for the starter.

[candid hinge]

hm, so you can farm medals?

[tawdry rover]

Originally I was expecting to not need a lot of biscuits, since the only point to catching any non-shinies would be for candies or to raise FL in the hopes of getting a better roll on a berrymon.

And then they introduced this new thing.

...yes? You increase friendship level by catching that type of mon, which is a thing you can do deliberately.

I'm working on catching 40 Pichus. (well- 39.)

Also working on Pawmi, very, very slowly.

[candid hinge]

hmm

oke

any other rule i should know about?

[tawdry rover]

It's a challenge you make up yourself, so, no.

I can say that if you want a shiny, any shiny, it's probably better to have multiple 'mons at FL10 than to have one at FL40.

Ideally you'd want to pick at least one mon for each sleep type to focus on leveling, so you can always have something to level no matter what type you have.

Obviously it's Pichu for Slumbering. Rattata is my personal pick for Snoozing, since it's so common that it should be easy to level and will be showing up pretty often. Dozing- Caterpie is really quite a solid early-game catch, or Bulbasaur is nice.

[candid hinge]

oke, thanks for the info!

[tawdry rover]

Probably also smart to pick an E4E mon to aim for. Hence why I'm after Pawmi and Eevee. IIRC, the ranking for E4E mons, from best to worst, is Gardevoir - Pawmot - Sylveon - Wigglytuff? With Sylveon unfortunately also only being a 2-stage.

Oh, that's right, Blissey exists also. And Chansey, which is better than Blissey once it gets the 2000-hour sleep medal. But neither of those is outranking a Wiggly.

It would still be a nice catch. Eggs are good, and E4E on an ing mon is better'n nothing.

[candid hinge]

mhmm, i agree

id be blessed by an eevee

my fav evo line

[tawdry rover]

Eevee line has a lot of great shinies.

[candid hinge]

indeed

[tawdry rover]

Including the Eevee itself.

[candid hinge]

if i just get an eevee everyday id just like

have 8 eevees and thats it

lol

and id get it to fl100

[tawdry rover]

that's a lotta biscuits

Good luck getting. cat? dog? fox things.

[candid hinge]

both

[winged pecan]

Thoughts on murkrow? could unlock coffee with it

[dusk sorrel]

This is incredible

[dusk sorrel]

HELL YEAH

[dusk sorrel]

When I started the game just came out so it was a lot slower progression. Now w medals everything has changed?

I only use shinies and bin everything else. I started on Greenisle every week for months because reset tickets would help get me the berries I need every week

Higher scores and more encounters

I’ve never napped either I only do one max 100% sleep for high scores n better encounters but everyone plays different

But now w medals you can choose what you want to hunt although you’ll get random shinies before a medal is unlocked so your team is sorta random

[candid hinge]

Hmm

I also think the monthly shiny boost with the new moon event is huge for this challenge

[buoyant fiber]

It definitely is

Also a great time to use incenses

[candid hinge]

If it already has the ingredients for its skill unlocked it may be 7 ingredient unlocks on one pokemon

But ofc we dont know how its skill works

[winged pecan]

True, I guess there's a chance it only gets the ings if they're already unlocked, but if not

Mushrooms, beans, coffee, sosig, and what ever ings it all ready has would be a crazy mon to get

[candid hinge]

Hopefully all of us will get it shiny this event

[rigid vapor]

yup

[tawdry rover]

I hope they keep the shiny boost. Someone did point out that the first Full Moon event had boosted shiny chance, but not the rest.

And I have to imagine that Murkrow only gets ingredients you’ve already unlocked, since otherwise that would be really strong.

[winged pecan]

Somehow it slept for 10 hours perfectly fine

Thats upsetting because I was hoping it'd stop tracking at 6 hours so I could do a nap

[candid hinge]

suffering from success

when pokemon sleep actually makes you want to not have a good schedule

[winged pecan]

Well this is on my old phone that I'm using for the shiny+egg alt, It just sits there while I'm at work

But it shouldn't be having any vibrations or anything to cause movement, hopefully it won't continue

Also, no eggs today

Just a toto to add to the pile

[candid hinge]

i wish i had an old phone...

im using a pc emulator, apparently the microphone isnt really needed, just emulating shakes is enough

[buoyant fiber]

I'm using an app that let's me make a second "workspace" on my phone which allowed me to download a second instance of sleep

[winged pecan]

Ooo interesting

[tawdry rover]

Ooh, what app?

[tawdry rover]

goooood morning everyone I have a main skill seed on this account now, and also a 🎵 mild IRL fever 🎵

Kinda tempted to main skill seed my Ivysaur. Ing Magnet is really helpful for this alt, and I see myself using this critter a lot.

though due to the aforementioned fever I don't know if I'm really making ideal choices at the moment

[candid hinge]

save seeds for the healer... i know its tough

but imagine you get a healer tomorrow morning...

[candid hinge]

btw i feel like a togekiss is only good in this run since i dont have anything atm

[dusk sorrel]

I’d use my main skill now

that’s something I encountered early on was to save things until I get a shiny or use them

But since we stuck w our team investing to get better slowly helps long term

Also I finally got blissey

I know some people like chansey more but I’m a blissey fan so I wanted it

[candid hinge]

Oh, if its on a blissey yeah id use seeds tbh

[tawdry rover]

See, the problem there is what if it takes me a year to get a healer, and in the meantime I could have had a year worth of extra ingredients?

[winged pecan]

What's the ivysaur look like?

Found it, its actually pretty good

HSM, HSS, STS? Goated

[tawdry rover]

Yep! Good enough that I expect it to be pretty much parked on my team for quite awhile.

[candid hinge]

Id give the seed to a gen 2 starter at least due to them having high ish trigger rate

[tawdry rover]

Don't those do charge strength? I don't really want to seed that. ANd that comes with the same "well what if it takes me forever to get a good one and I could have been getting more ingredients that entire time".

Hang on, I'm gonna go look at the medals and release calendar to try and figure out how many more seeds I"m likely to get in the next while.

(assuming there's a main skill seed in the shop every new legendary release. seems safe.)

(I'm gonna be typing a lot while I go through and make notes, dno't mind that.)

Okay, so I can get one more main skill seed for getting 10 mons to level 30, and another for 10 at 50. I don't see any more in the medals- for some reason I'd thought there were a couple more knocking around in there? Getting 390 sleep styles gives another one. 2024 had legendary releases in (approximately) March, June, and September, so I'd expect us to get two more this year, since Cresselia was in March again.

E4E currently caps at level 6, so if I get one of the three-stage E4E users, I'd need 3 seeds max. 4 for a Sylveon. More if it's caught pre-evolved, of course, but that's probably less likely than me catching one of the baby versions after I've been hunting them.

I have two mons at level 30 right now and one at 27, so I'd say finishing the 10-at-30 medal seems relatively reasonable this year? I'd need to catch four more shinies worth leveling, but I can surely do that in seven months with how low the bar of "worth leveling" is on this account. Which means I can reasonably count on 3 main skill seeds this year, if we get the legendaries.

So I'm just gonna use this one on the Ivysaur.

(which is making me slightly regret having used seeds on my really quite bad starter. in my defense I had expected it to be my best mon for quite awhile.)

Daisy the currently-Ivysaur is now at an even 1000 RP, and is 39 candies away from evolving.

I have also evolved my rather-better Rattata into a Raticate, and I am completely out of biscuits. I have none. Absolutely zero.

I think I'm gonna go to Cyan for a bit, probably after next week. Staying on GG to farm Pichus loses its value a little when I don't have many biscuits to use on said Pichus, and I could use some novelty.

[dusk sorrel]

Yeah it’s hard to hunt when running out of biscuits

That’s why I stuck on greenisle because more encounters and higher scores mean more candies from finding the higher evolutions

But if you have a certain member on your team needing candies then go to that region

[tawdry rover]

Technically I do. In that the sooner I get this new Raticate to lvl30, the sooner I can just have it and its HB on my team instead of the other one.

[rigid vapor]

u wont

trust me

[candid hinge]

i mean

technically a energizing cheer is a healer too!

many more options

[rigid vapor]

a shit healer

[candid hinge]

everybody gansta until i pull a shiny slowking with skill up speed down nature

[buoyant fiber]

I was tempted to seed my charizard too, but I see now that seeding the mareep gave me so much more strength (also my ing bag is always full so I don't need more). I would recommend saving them for a skill specialist, regardless of healer or not

[winged pecan]

I got another shiny on my main

[candid hinge]

Trade it to the shiny account

[winged pecan]

I wish we could

It's usable too

[tawdry rover]

show

Good afternoon everyone, all my creatures are very tired. I might have to use some energy pillows for tomorrow.

[candid hinge]

Time for a double nap double energy recovery bonus team.

[winged pecan]

My first AAA gunk

[rigid vapor]

Wow, mono with an ing finder at 50

Decent

[winged pecan]

If only it wasn't my main

[winged pecan]

Do yall ever do 0p hunts?

[candid hinge]

If anyone can add my new account i'd be greatful, i choose candies!
2262-2438-1554

[winged pecan]

Just added on my shiny alt:)

[candid hinge]

ty!

[winged pecan]

No problem!

[rigid vapor]

What's that?

[winged pecan]

Like never feeding snorlax or giving him berries so he stays at basic 1 to help hunt specific mons?

Never giving berries by switching mons before they sneaky snack

Idk if that's a decent way to hunt specific mons

[buoyant fiber]

It kinda is

-0p

[paper iris]

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[buoyant fiber]

I'd only advise it for pichu though

Or maybe iggly

But on the other hand you will see way less total spawns

[dusk sorrel]

Losing all them encounters def not worth

[candid hinge]

Anyone know if the boosted shiny chance is for both sleep sessions?

[tawdry rover]

It doesn’t specify that the boosted chance is only for the first sleep, so it should be for both.

Took me a few tickets, but that’s a near-perfect lineup for me.

[candid hinge]

It's gaming time

[tawdry rover]

The donuts pranked me. My Snorlax got strong enough that only one of my nap spawns was a Pichu.

[winged pecan]

Rip

Murkrow would be goated shiny, its A ing is coffee

[tawdry rover]

Went ahead and leveled my Blastoise to my current max, 35. Not because it gives me any particular benefits right off, but because I remembered the handy candy thing. I don't need more Squirtle candies, so leveling this Blastoise in order to have its exp instead go towards getting me candies for something else seems like a good idea.

[winged pecan]

Wait what?

When a mon is max level, the exp gets turned into candies?

[buoyant fiber]

I can now make heat wave tofu salad because of my sheep, my first 2-ing meal!

[buoyant fiber]

Yes, there's an exp gauge, all excess exp goes to the gauge and when it hits 500 exp you get one rare candy

[winged pecan]

Thats pretty cool! I didnt know that

[buoyant fiber]

Most (new) people don't figure out until they're pretty high AR. For me it's a consistent thing on my alt, because even though my pokemon exp income stays the same, my RR exp income barely goes up while the requirement does raise. Its hard to improve teams well enough to get consistent better RR exp when only running shinies

I need to wait another 5 RR levels before i can take mine to 40

[tawdry rover]

Yep, that's a thing! It's a semi-recent addition, IIRC, and not one I've had much opportunity to use. But I had a bunch of Squirtle candies, and a Blastoise near the level cap, and some non-Squirtle-line mons in need of candy, so- why not.

[tawdry rover]

ayyy nice

A couple more catches and you can make a weird Paint collage of possible dishes.

[buoyant fiber]

GUYS dont forget incensed during NMD

Had to restart my sleep session to use one

[winged pecan]

I sadly don't have any incense yet

[buoyant fiber]

:(((

I used Pichu and will probably use Munna and other bfs the next two days

I need bfs stuff to happen

[candid hinge]

whoever has pichu incenses and pichu over medal 10 use it!

[buoyant fiber]

I did

[candid hinge]

on my main ill use ralts incense since i have it past 40 catches lol

[tawdry rover]

I have perhaps neglected to consider where the incenses from my main would work. Most of ‘em don’t spawn on OGPP. Ah well- the chance for Dedenne is worth it.

Very tempting to use my Cress incense on my alt. I wish I knew whether the shiny boost now is as high as at Christmas.

[dusk sorrel]

I always play on GG when events happen

Try to break high scores to see if my team has gotten better

Random spawns

Makes it a lil fun

[tawdry rover]

Good strat. Counterpoint: Dedenne.

(also very rare Steelix)

[candid hinge]

Surprised this morning

I wish i could pass all the shiny vees to my shiny account

Also i cant brag about my shiny since i gotta send darkrai candy...

[winged pecan]

Rip

Great morning though

[candid hinge]

All im hoping for is to get a shiny on the 6 spawns a day i get on the char account...

[winged pecan]

Really hoping I can get some spawns today

Anything

I still dont even have a tog to start my account properly so I'm at like 4 spawns a day

[dusk sorrel]

I hit Master 6 first day so a good sleep

Had an incense so 9 encounter sleep hit the spot

[lean lance]

Got this crazy haunter on a nap 👀

So close to being the murkrow :')

[buoyant fiber]

HSm If+ is dope

Congrats!

[rigid vapor]

OMG the ing list is amazing + hsm + bfs + ing up nature

Holy shit

That's amazing

[candid hinge]

Holy shiny

[winged pecan]

Absolutely goated shiny

[dusk sorrel]

W Pull

Been wanting a gengar for a while

[lean lance]

ty everyone!

[winged pecan]

Day 10 of this hunt and nothing still, we shall nap and see what we get in a few hours

[candid hinge]

believers...don't loose hope

[tawdry rover]

At 6 spawns a day and a shiny chance somewhere ni the general vicinity of 1/100-1/200, I have some bad news about how the math there works out.

The good news is that there's no minimum number of mons you need to see. Every batch is equally as likely to have a shiny in it, no matter if it's the first roll or the 200th.

[rigid vapor]

Funny pic

[kindred sail]

Got my first shiny in my alt acc, now I can start the mission of shiny only mission

[tawdry rover]

Well, my main got an unremarkable-statted shiny Caterpie this morning, so that's somethin'.

[winged pecan]

[buoyant fiber]

I yeeted Darkrai off my team, I'm back to vibing with three mons

[rigid vapor]

SHOW

[tawdry rover]

Congrats! Agreed: show.

[candid hinge]

-showstats

[paper iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1129232076261052548/1237437359415627867/image.png?ex=663ba4d8&is=663a5358&hm=2cce7ae3648eaf61677bf392367c9ebb2eecf2c1456b6e69657640471fac277b&

[kindred sail]

It's a rat

New Moon Day shiny

[candid hinge]

The OG shiny run pokemon