Shiny Only Playthrough ✨

[kindred sail]

I want a new shiny

[tawdry rover]

guys oh my goodness

triple trigger Eevee

I had my heart set on a Pawmot E4E, but I gotta go for this, right?

[elder hazel]

I mean there are other eevolutions that are useful, so if you want Pawmot for e4e, you can use this one for Espeon or something

[rigid vapor]

CONGRATS

[dusk sorrel]

HOLY W

Such a good shiny

I went both weeks during the event no shinies

Only for this week to get one each day so far 2/2

Both dupes and not really good stats but hey more family members can’t complain

[rigid vapor]

AYYYY TWO SHINIES

Congrats

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, I could, but at the same time I don’t know if I want to sacrifice getting a perfectly good Sylveon in favor of waiting who knows how long for maybe getting a Pawmi. I think I’m gonna go ahead and get my Sylveon, and then if I get a Pawmi I can swap out which one I use based on which works better for that week. I know Pawmi is better than Sylveon, but I think my chances of finding a shiny one that’s better than this Sylveon are fairly low, considering this is double trigger at 50 and triple whenever 75 unlocks.

[buoyant fiber]

Don't

Literally right before the Beast event I evolved my shiny Eevee into Sylveon and the literal next sleep session i found a pawmi and i was so sad that i missed out on my favourite shiny eeveelution

Tbf your Eevee is good enough that a pawn won't easily beat it but just hold off on evolving for a bit

Though ig technically it's only sts msc+

[winged pecan]

Who needs a healer when you can have your favorite shiny eeveelution instead

[kindred sail]

I went through NMD twice without a single shiny :0

[winged pecan]

I havent gotten a NMD shiny since the first one

[tawdry rover]

I don’t have a particular favorite shiny Eeveelution, though, and I have no idea how long it’ll be until I get a non-terrible Pawmi. If I ever do.
I have to wait in any case, though, since Sylveon takes 150 sleep hours to evolve.

I did give it three main skill seeds already, because I’m doing something with this.

[stiff agate]

you understand that if you hadn't done this you wouldn't have found the pawmi tho

(its the law)

[buoyant fiber]

Wrong

[tawdry rover]

woke up to my main going “hey d’you want a shiny Kirilia that really isn’t awful”

sure thank you I guess

(sts10, hss50, neutral nature. I’d happily take that on a shiny alt skillmon.)

[tawdry rover]

ooo shiny Cleffa line boost for next GSD

[tawdry rover]

Okay, sure!

[dusk sorrel]

NICE

I woke up to one aswell

[buoyant fiber]

-showstats

[paper iris]

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[tawdry rover]

Oo, very nice, and also look at them color-coordinating! Orange Pawmi with orange Charmander, yellow Pawmo with yellow Charmander.

[rigid vapor]

WOAHHHH

CONGRATS

was it any good?

[winged pecan]

[dusk sorrel]

Not terrible but not better than the one I already gave

Have

[rigid vapor]

rip

[tawdry rover]

Okay, so it sounds like Xatu is pretty solid. Let’s see if any of us can get it shiny this week.

Close second to Meganium for Lapis, best psychic berrymon by a good bit, and it has Ing magnet and eggs!

And the shiny’s not bad. Not spectacular, it’s pretty subtle, but it at least looks nice IMO. If a bit neon.

[wheat berry]

Only took 3 months to evolve this guy

[tawdry rover]

Oo, very nice! The stats are even pretty decent, at least for this challenge.

[winged pecan]

It's been so long

[wheat berry]

Shiny #9, unlocks tomatoes

[rigid vapor]

Nice ing mon

[winged pecan]

Holy tomato woodo

[tawdry rover]

👀

[rigid vapor]

Wait what's ur fl with Pichu again?

[tawdry rover]

me staring at this like “-is it?”

[rigid vapor]

I think I remember it being pretty high

[tawdry rover]

40 exactly! So I get two chances at BFS or HB.

[rigid vapor]

oh damnnn

Niceeee

gl man

[tawdry rover]

there’s three other hungy berrymons so gimme a sec to catch

[rigid vapor]

I'm praying for u

🥁 🥁 🥁

Drum rolllllll

[tawdry rover]

Oh it really looks shiny in this screen.

[rigid vapor]

[tawdry rover]

ah.

[rigid vapor]

is it good?

that "ah." didn't sound good

[tawdry rover]

Well. It has BFS.

[rigid vapor]

NOOOOO

BROOO

That sucks

it's bold too

-bold

[paper iris]

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[rigid vapor]

Looks like it's time to try to get fl100 on Pichu now

[tawdry rover]

I think I’m gonna stick to FL40 on them and just hope I get a couple more shinies. Pichu’s pretty common, after all.

I have four Pikachu line shinies now! Two Raichus, one Pika I might evolve, and. uh. this.

Which I will I think not be evolving.

I think I’ll go ahead and evolve Crowd (named that because “three’s a crowd”), just get it to 25, and then save future pika candies for the eventual BFS or HB one. Because I figure I gotta get one eventually.

There's a 1/7 chance of the first gold skill being BFS, then a 1/6 chance of the second one being BFS if the first one isn't, so that's... let's see.
1/7 = 6/42, 1/6 = 7/42, so add those together for a 13/42 chance, so roughly a 1/3 chance.
I don't know how to do the math for the exact chance of it having either BFS or HB, since I don't know how to work in the possibility of one of the two options being selected on the first one, but I'd imagine the chance is probably somewhere in the general vicinity of 2/3.

...wait, hang on, I don't know if that math makes sense actually.

[elder hazel]

No, you don't add probability. For example: if you flip a coin, you have a 1/2 of getting head. The chance of getting two heads in a row is not: 1/2 + 1/2 = 1 (100%)

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, I think I need to not try to do math when I should have eaten lunch an hour before said math. Brain no good.

[elder hazel]

So to calculate the chance of BFS in the first two slots, after guaranteed gold skill in both slots, is to look at the chance of NOT getting BFS in either, and subtract that from 100%.

So the calculation is 1 - (6/7 * 5/6) = 28.57%

[tawdry rover]

Thaaat's right, that's how that works, thank you. Still a pretty good chance! 1/3(ish) ain't bad, especially not when I'd also be pretty happy with HB and therefore I basically have two tries at a 1/3(ish) chance.

[tawdry rover]

So if it's a 1/3 chance, that means I just have to catch two more shiny Pichus and I'm guaranteed BFS, right? (/jk)

[elder hazel]

Yeah, maybe give or take 10 catches on either side...

[rigid vapor]

So close

The bfs went to the fl1 natu I caught

[tawdry rover]

Oh that's a dilemma right there. It's trying real hard to be a skillmon.

[tawdry rover]

As of a bit earlier today I now have my team almost entirely made of mons that just need exp, because I’m on GG and I hit M7 already. I figure that’s good enough, since the mons I want to catch are all just unevolved brrrymons.

Though it is kinda tempting to see how fast putting my two Raticate back on the team for normal berry GG will get me to M9 for some tiny chance of legendaries…

okay well I just made a dinner with a full pot of filler and now I'm halfway through M8, so the team might be fine as it is, particularly considering my HB Arbok is still on the team and is now joined by my Sceptile.

[buoyant fiber]

Now this is what I call an ultra scientist

[tawdry rover]

Even comes equipped to gather its own research funding!

[tawdry rover]

Is anyone in this thread going to be able to go to Amber Canyon when it releases? I sure won't- I don't even have OGPP yet. Looking forward to the presumed AC-mons-temporarily-on-GG event, though.

[winged pecan]

Sadly not

[rigid vapor]

I might

but I'm not rly doing shiny only anymore

[elder hazel]

My main account can go to Amber Canyon

My shiny only account doesn't even have Lapis unlocked yet

[dapper meadow]

I love this idea.

[dusk sorrel]

Jeez you have an army!

You’d have a phenomenal start

[dusk sorrel]

I’ll be able to go

I’m not sure if I should I’m not to sure on what’s gonna spawn and what’s the types

I’ve just been staying in Elite trying to get my % up

[tawdry rover]

Oh, that’s a nice set there! Though the question is also how many are any good.

[dapper meadow]

The sylveon is good. And I think the gasly.

[tawdry rover]

Well, my main just caught a fried egg (3-star-style shiny Swablu) with HB this morning, so yay/augh.

Also I did the math for my alt just now. Excluding my starter Squirtle and the other 4 spawns in the tutorial sleep session, because those are part of the rerolling-for-starters math rather than the normal-spawns math, I have 2120 total Pokemon sightings for a total of 25 shinies. That's a clean 1/85 shiny rate.
(though technically it's 1/2112, because 8 of those sightings are shiny-locked Darkrai, so technically it's a 1/84.48 shiny chance.)

And then also technically that should be chopped up to compensate for friendship medals, but I am Not touching that math, nor do I have a record of exactly when I got each friendship medal for each species.

[tawdry rover]

I almost wonder if I should go to Lapis for next week. I'm not going to do well, but the increased chance of unseen sleep styles would mean I'd have a boosted chance of getting the Lapis exclusives, since I haven't seen any of them yet.

Or I could try Snowdrop for the first time, mayyybe get M3, and have a shot at the stuff there. But that doesn't have the very tempting Lapis exclusives.

Teeny tiny chance at shiny Ralts, Dratini, or Stufful, and an even tinier chance at their evolved forms... hm. I think I gotta try it.

[buoyant fiber]

Go lapis! It's where both my main and my alt will be going

[tawdry rover]

Sold! Not sure where my main is off to- maybe I'll try GGEX and then leave if I get a terrible spin.

[buoyant fiber]

GGEX is a horrible decision because of the dpr requirements for higher sleep styles. I checked, I wouldn't be able to see any new sleep styles the first 3 days because of not having enough strength to even unlock them

Though ofc it could be different for you

I decided for lapis cuz then I can run blaziken sceptile meganium and worry less about cookinh

[tawdry rover]

Isn't cooking boosted next week, though?

And GGEX is reallllly gonna depend on what berry I get. If I get electric, I'm solid, because I have four Raichus and a Pawmot. Poison, maybe not so much.

[kindred sail]

My first shiny reach 1000 today

[winged pecan]

I think ill be taking my alt to cyan now, I think thats the best place for me

I have several on time mons

[winged pecan]

I haven't been to cyan at all

Definitely should go next week

[elder hazel]

Yeah I think it depends on if someone needs the sleep styles to unlock Amber Canyon. I'm not too worried about new sleep styles at this point since I'm pretty sure I have enough to unlock AC, more styles doesn't get me anything else. I'm going to ggex to bump up the area bonus

I have 669 sleep styles on my main... what was it to unlock OGPP? Wasn't it like 400 something sleep styles?

Oh nvm, it was 340 sleep styles to unlock OGPP. So yeah, at this point I'm not sure what all the new sleep styles really get us...

[tawdry rover]

Might as well take a swing at it, I figure, for dex completion if nothing else. And maybe a higher chance of fully evolved mons that give more candies and shards.

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah but personally I can still only make 2-ingredient dishes lmao

Idk about you ofc

[buoyant fiber]

I mean, you've been using this account a while longer than most of us. I haven't unlocked ogpp yet so I do want the sleepstyles

[tawdry rover]

My current cooking ability iiiiis questionable, depending pretty heavily on the week. I can make some of the 35% dishes for dessert week, is most of where I have good mons.

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah so if you go to ggex and roll desserts with a nice berry, you're good. If you roll a different meal type and get only shit berries, you're fucked

Thats why personally I went to an island where i knew I had at least a few good pokemon

[tawdry rover]

Oh, my alt can't get to GGEX anyway. My main can cook pretty solidly.

[buoyant fiber]

Ahhh okay yeah that changes things

[elder hazel]

Oh for sure, if you don't have ogpp unlocked yet or are prepping for the unlocking of amber canyon, it makes sense to try and get more sleep styles

[tawdry rover]

In 8 more minutes I can check my alt's first batch of Lapis spawns, and I am attempting to not expect there to be a shiny Dratini, because that's extremely unlikely and I will more than likely be disappointed if I expect one.

I do hope I can get one of the Lapis exclusives just to start things off, but that sucker ain't gonna be shiny.

Alright, well, no shiny, but I did get a regular Dratini and a regular Stufful, so I'll take it.

[elder hazel]

Wrong screenshot...

There we go. After more than a month in a shiny draught.

[tawdry rover]

Ayy, apple time! Sorta!

[elder hazel]

I have two shiny Rats with apple, and one shiny Skully... Snorlax will be drinking apple juice to the end of time

[tawdry rover]

thought that said Ralts and was about to be very jealous

Huh. Why is the "items" icon in the bag a potion, actually?

I mean I know the mainline games like that as an icon for items, but there aren't potions here.

[stiff agate]

swear to god I'm never going to see another shiny again

It's joever

[rigid vapor]

[winged pecan]

I haven't seen a shiny since treecko release, still

[elder hazel]

Two shinies in a row! But why do they have to be so trashy... and why am I getting so much apples? 😂

[kindred sail]

Second day gsd no cleffa in sight?

[kindred sail]

Whatt my alt acc didn't encounter any cleffa whole gsd . They be avoiding me fr

[fading umbra]

caught my third shiny pichu and we don't talk about it

[winged pecan]

[gentle marsh]

Don’t worry guys she has a trigger

[tawdry rover]

I mean I've seen worse

[elder hazel]

My shiny ingredient specialists are all ingredient down, and my berry specialists have ing finding subs and speed down. this is the shiny tax we pay.

[rigid vapor]

If it makes u feel better I invested in this one

[tawdry rover]

Lapis was a good choice for this week, I think. I'm seeing some of the Lapis exclusives as my new styles.

Should have made a note of how many styles I'd seen beforehand, because I think I've gotten ten this week so far.

[gentle marsh]

I might do the same just to try bro out

[gentle marsh]

I got like 6

Most of them were Xatu though so like does that even count

[tawdry rover]

Hey, new styles for unlocks is new styles for unlocks.

[rigid vapor]

I (don't) regret it

[winged pecan]

Another day with no shiny

[tawdry rover]

Huh. Looks like we’re all eventually gonna get a free Darkrai to sit in our boxes forever, with this new thing they’re adding to NMD.

[winged pecan]

Only takes like 10 appearances

[tawdry rover]

If nothing else, it'll speed up my main's "if Darkrai is hungry we chuck a biscuit at it and eventually maybe we'll get somethin worth using" half-attempts at one.

[buoyant fiber]

I can use it on my alt to unlock new ingredients!

(That's my rule anyway)

[tawdry rover]

Seems reasonable. And slow.

[buoyant fiber]

Sadly, it's probably faster than waiting for a shiny to have those ingredients

The last like... 6 shinies I got haven't unlocked any new ingredients

Well one will at 60 but it's a swalot, it feels counter intuitive to candy boost (I still boost it dw)

[tawdry rover]

I can't remember, can you pick what ingredient you reroll a Darkrai into, or is it random?

[buoyant fiber]

Random

But it has several I still need, like corn and coffee. I already rolled corn at 30, just haven't leveled my Darkrai yet. Gonna reroll for coffee in slot 1

The subskills suck anyway

[tawdry rover]

I guess it's wildly up to chance (and how many biscuits you're willing to feed to Darkrai) whether you get a coffee-having shiny or a random coffee roll on Darkrai first.

Hm. Further complications in the what-do-I-evolve-this-Eevee-into question: according to Raenonx, at lvl50, a Sylveon with this Eevee's stats will proc only a bit more often than a Gardevoir with absolutely no skill trigger or speed on it. It has to get to 75 to have a significant edge, and at 75 a Gardevoir with only skill trigger M (which I could use a subseed to get) is still pretty close. So, until lvl75 is in the game (and until far longer than that, since I can't exactly farm shards very well), a Gardevoir with basically any useful stats to its name is serious competition for this 'vee.

Buuuut it could be a very long time until I find a shiny Gardevoir line with any useful stats, not least as I can't do very well on Lapis yet. And meanwhile this Eevee is about a week or so away from being a Sylveon.

I'm also not a huge fan of CSM mons and their lack of scaling, so I don't think I'd want an Espeon. I could go for a potmon, but I like and want to hunt Magnemite, even if Magnezone's shiny isn't as good as the other two in the line. Ing Magnet I have pretty well covered. So there's not really anything other than a Sylveon I want off this 'vee.

If I evolve it and then get a Ralts the next time I'm back on Lapis, I'm gonna be a bit annoyed.

(though I guess worst-case scenario I now have a fairy berry option for eventual GGEX weeks.)

[elder hazel]

It's not a bad idea to have two healers. You don't always run them together, but inevitably one will underperform one day and it's good to have a second one to bring onboard for some extra heal. I do that on my main account and my Gardevoir is pretty good

[kindred sail]

Meowth & Iggly reach 1000

[tawdry rover]

I gotta remember to save up my diamonds for a GCT for Halloween. Hopefully whatever gets introduced will be cool/useful, and either way, I wanna see if I can get a shiny hatchu for braggin rights. Also either a Drifloon or a Gastly would be great, and I'm sure those are gonna be boosted again this year. And Mimikyu!

Looks like last year's Halloween stuff can be summarized as:

• Ghost-type spawns boosted, especially recently-released Mimikyu
• Ghost-type helpers gather extra ingredients, proc skills more often, and have +1 to main skill level
• GG Snorlax has Ghost-type berry as its favorite
• more candy during first sleep research of the day
• usual "Pokemon of different sleep types appear regardless of your sleep type"
• usual event quests
• also Pikachu (in hat) is here
  So I imagine we'll get more or less the same thing this year. The event will presumably start on the 27th, so as to run through Halloween, and I imagine we aren't getting any events in the next couple weeks due to having one this week and one on Halloween week.

Basically, I'm going to Taupe for a couple weeks, I think, because I oughta try and snag a ghost and I'm pretty sure Taupe is my best bet of that.

Orrrr not, because Drifloon isn't there. Coulda sworn it was. But Taupe does have Gastly, Shuppet, and Fuecoco (which would be very hard to evolve in 2 weeks on this account).
So I guess my options are: GG, which has Drifloon, Gastly, Shuppet, Fuecoco, and Mimikyu, but also loads of other spawns, or Taupe for Gastly, Shuppet, and Fuecoco with less competition.

Y'all have any thoughts?

[buoyant fiber]

If you really want to target those mons, Taupe is definitely your best bet. GG is far too dilluted

[elder hazel]

I have a shiny Mimikyu on my main account with ok stats too. I wish trading is a thing...

[elder hazel]

On my shiny alt I'll just go wherever I still need to build AB and can get the weekly incense mission. I've done relatively well in that aspect, Snowdrop was the only island I couldn't get the weekly incense mission on the first two visits... By Halloween I'll most likely have Lapis unlocked but I'll probably stay at Taupe or Snowdrop to get some AB transferred over to Lapis

[winged pecan]

It gets worse every day

[rigid vapor]

[winged pecan]

Stats atleast?

[rigid vapor]

[winged pecan]

Damn

[fading umbra]

tfw my shiny alt has better meal crit luck than main

made clodsire eclairs 3x today on main and generated less power than this one meal

[tawdry rover]

My alt hit M3 on Lapis!

Juuust barely eked it out courtesy of the cooking bonus this week.

Probably gonna go ahead and use this Stufful incense now, even though it'd be better to save it, because it might be a long time before I'm on Lapis during an actual NMD and I think I'd like to just snag myself one more chance at a Stufful before I head to Cyan and Taupe for awhile.

[dusk sorrel]

Congrats !! That’s huge progress considering you just started a lil while ago

The shiny luck has been strong w you

I hit my first silver badge today (eevee) so we making small progress

[winged pecan]

Oo very nice with eevee week soon

[tawdry rover]

36 hours and 22 minutes of sleep away from a Sylveon!

Oo, right, Eevee week.

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, I’m sitting at a 1/80 shiny rate last I checked, which is borderline silly considering I’m pretty sure that big group project calculated the shiny chance as very roughly twice that.

I think that’s the lowest shard count I’ve ever had.

[dusk sorrel]

Those are really good odds keep that up for sure!

[tawdry rover]

So: hat Eevee.

On the one hand, Eevee has a fairly nice shiny, and the purple hat should be a really nice contrast to that. Plus this’d be a good bragging rights shiny, since limited time. On the other: augh an unevolvable Eevee

Pros: you get to keep the nice Eevee shiny. Cons: you have to keep the nice Eevee shiny.

(I mean I’m only assuming it’ll be unevolvable, but I think that’s a safe assumption.)

oh wait no the hat is orange this year. still decent contrast.

[tawdry rover]

me squinting at every buried Diglett I see like “okay but are you”

leeks pls

my main has two shiny Diglett and two shiny Dugtrio, it’s be great if y’all could send a cousin or someone to my alt

[tawdry rover]

Ooh! That's really quite solid as shinies go, nice catch!

[rigid vapor]

Thx!

[dusk sorrel]

CONGRATS !!

We must be synced because look

My first shiny Growlithe

And it’s good !!

[buoyant fiber]

@stiff agate gonna be jealous

[stiff agate]

Ya not too bad wish it had bfs but I mean for a shiny u can't be picky

[winged pecan]

[bright turtle]

woaaa congrats!!! thats amazing

[tawdry rover]

Well. That's not a ghost I've just found.

That's my first Fire-type.

And I have a fire stone.

Hello and good morning to: this dude sliding just under the line to technically become my team's first healer, 19 hours and 3 minutes of sleep time before my Eevee can evolve into a Sylveon.

[tawdry rover]

ooo folks there's apparently the cries for the new Halloween ghost mon (||Gourgeist||) in the files to give it away, and these have cool shinies.

[elder hazel]

The only healer I have is charge energy

Self healers

[tawdry rover]

Oh, yeah, I have a few self-healers, I just don't really count them. Fingers crossed you get something that can heal other mons soon.

If I was any more superstitious I'd probably start thinking I somehow got good PokeSleep luck karma from all those shiny-locked Pikachus I went through, because I'm sitting at a clean 1/85.5 shiny rate. I've also reduced my list of types I have none of down to: Ice, Flying, Ghost, Dragon, Steel, and (for about two more days) Fairy.

[elder hazel]

Golden cobra 🐍🐍🐍

[buoyant fiber]

GOURGEIST IS PUMPKABOO RIGHT

I CALLED IT I CALLED IT I CALLED IT AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[tawdry rover]

Gourgeist is evolved Pumpkaboo, yeah!

[buoyant fiber]

Wooooooo

Sorry to everyone I just accidentally spoiled

I'm just really excited

[tawdry rover]

hang on no that's definitely not right

okay yeah no I can't read apparently

Lemme try that again.
My main has been playing since release week, for a total of 6049 Pokemon seen, not including the 4 shiny-locked non-starters in the tutorial sleep and the 6 shiny-locked Darkrai sightings. Out of those, I have 43 shinies, putting me at a shiny rate of 1/140.7 for this account. I think about 9 of those would have been found after I had a badge for that species, judging by the release date of the badges (April this year) and which shinies after that date are of species I've been catching regularly.

Of those shinies, one is an AAA Blastoise that I could mint and use if I didn't have a better one already, one is a Togekiss (caught as Togetic) that has really good stats (triple trigger + HB + SLUS) except for being a Togekiss, one is a workable AAA Abomasnow (caught as Snover), one is a BFS Raichu (caught as Pikachu), one is a BFS Sealeo (caught as Spheal), and finally, one is an ABC Dragonair (caught as Dratini) that I am going to be using regardless of it being ABC due to its stats being otherwise quite good.
So, five and a half solid shinies in all that time, with four of them being ones I'll actively use. Not the best odds.

For those of y'all doing this challenge on an alt, how's your main doing on shinies?

[stiff agate]

@buoyant fiber

I thought you had pinged me in here lmao

[buoyant fiber]

no

But yeah that's not bad

Has BFS

[stiff agate]

Yep

[elder hazel]

My main has 58 shinies, but ever since starting a shiny alt, I've been a lot more willing to send away bad shinies on my main. I think I've sent 3 or 4 bad/duplicate shinies on my main to free up space

[tawdry rover]

I'm keeping all my duplicate shinies in hopes of that possible random-trade-with-stat-rerolls thing eventually happening. It'd be nice to be able to send them off to other people.

58 is a nice count! Any particularly good ones?

[elder hazel]

A few decent ones. Nothing super amazing

If we consider rarity and stats, this Mimikyu is probably my favorite

[tawdry rover]

Ooo, that’s pretty solid even by non-shiny standards, I think. Nice! Shame it’d be hard to subseed effectively.

[fading umbra]

damn i want a shiny mimi!

just woke up a nap and almost missed a shiny diglett bc it was underground sleeping

at least its a leek unlock.... and the nonshiny i caught is, of course, much better

[winged pecan]

[kindred sail]

So far I've encountered different kinds of shiny mons except for caterpie (3 times).
Amoung 16 I've encountered (I blended 1), 2(3) of them are quite usable (Sudowoodo has okay-ish stats, but I doubt I'll use him)

[dusk sorrel]

Blended

Whoever is the OP of shiny blending is my rival actually

Lil fun fact

[dusk sorrel]

This is actually a really impressive account

Yk when I started this I actually just planned on using shinies and really didn’t care for the stats

It was watching you n Birdy on which shinies are good that got me to learn the game a lil better

I just sleep w mine lol but now I know certain mons are good

[dusk sorrel]

58 is a ton! Must be playing for a while now

[dusk sorrel]

[buoyant fiber]

Sadly no new ingredients, but it's a new berry (still didn't have grass nor dark so I'll leave it as grass first for ggex purposes)

[tawdry rover]

Taupe success! Not amazing stats, but exp up ain’t bad on a berrymon.

Now I have my first ghost, and something for the upcoming ghost berry event!

[dusk sorrel]

Another shiny ✨

Unfortunately horrific stats not even worth showing

But overall cute lil add!

[tawdry rover]

blows some kind of announcement horn

E4E acquired!

[rigid vapor]

Ayy same

We're in sync

[winged pecan]

[dusk sorrel]

Twin

[rigid vapor]

How long has it been since u last got one JC?

[winged pecan]

When did treecko get released?

[rigid vapor]

Damn

[rigid vapor]

That long??

[winged pecan]

Yeah

[rigid vapor]

that was like like 3 months ago right?

[winged pecan]

[rigid vapor]

The longest I've gone without a shiny was like 2 months I think

I'm praying that u get a god shiny soon

[winged pecan]

Same

It better be good whatever it is

Hopefully I can get one this NMD

Gonna use whatever incense I have and pray

[rigid vapor]

[fading umbra]

not NMD yet but another one

[winged pecan]

[kindred sail]

Hmmm... Wondering should I use larvitar or Mawile incense first

[fading umbra]

shiny chiko today! and usable!

oh, and its a cacao unlock for me too!

[dusk sorrel]

BIG TIME

[tawdry rover]

Oh that's actually pretty solid! I'd use this on my main, never mind my alt. Congrats!

[winged pecan]

Smoochie

[fading umbra]

jc you'll get your next shiny soon

[winged pecan]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-in-the-hat-dr-seuss-accident-plan-crime-gif-8490802

[kindred sail]

Done using both larvitar and mawile incense, no shiny yet...

[rigid vapor]

YOOO CONGRATS SMOOCHIE

[fading umbra]

ty birdy

[tawdry rover]

okay so apparently Pumpkaboo is out already?

[fading umbra]

yep, shadowdropped for NMD

[tawdry rover]

I might have to scoot islands to GG. I was gonna stay on Taupe, buuut I want a punkin.

[fading umbra]

not sure but it seems to be showing up on a LOT of islands so maybe its island agnostic for release?

[tawdry rover]

Doesn't Serebii just say GG, GGEX, and OGPP? Have people been finding it elsewhere?

[fading umbra]

that's what i've heard but further research may be required -- apparently it's also been showing up for different sleep styles but everything's just via word of mouth lol

[tawdry rover]

If I hadn't already napped today I'd try and check if it's on Taupe today.

Unfortunately I think I napped before they pushed the update.

[fading umbra]

i think i'm going to try to use my shiny alt as a litmus test to see if pumpkaboo's in the pool yet

[tawdry rover]

#datamine-discussion message

It might be in all islands for NMD.

[fading umbra]

yea theres pic of it on snowdrop too, i think its island agnostic just for launch

[tawdry rover]

okay so I do know what that means, but I love the idea of Pumpkaboo going "well, I don't think we can really tell whether the islands exist" like it's the religious kind of agnostic.

[fading umbra]

"i don't think i can believe in mirage island until i see it with my own eyes"

[lean lance]

Tried a 2-5pm nap on alt with no pumpkaboos :(

Also is the halloween event ghost types shiny boosted this year? This is the first time they didnt mention it

[winged pecan]

Seems not

[winged pecan]

So uhhhhhh

NOT JOLLY

[kindred sail]

Finally, and it's double shiny! The stat tho...

[winged pecan]

I mean, atleast its something

[fading umbra]

i told u ur shiny was coming soon!!!

[winged pecan]

[wheat berry]

Happy Halloween to me

[winged pecan]

No way

[fading umbra]

nofuckingway

-showstats

[paper iris]

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

[fading umbra]

so close...

[winged pecan]

Careful ABA

[wheat berry]

I’m half okay with the ingredients since I don’t have soybeans yet, but that nature tho 🥲

[elder hazel]

Mint? 🥹

I minted my ing down starter Charmander

[tawdry rover]

I really wish we knew whether mints are going to be a once-a-year thing or a little bit more common, because that'd obviously affect what to use 'em on.

Though I think soybeans are extra unfortunate on Gourgeist because their carry limit is so dang low that all it takes is one proc of soybeans to about fill their inventory.

[rigid vapor]

LET'S GOOOO CONGRATS

I TOLD YOU

[elder hazel]

Yeah, anything other than pumpkin is really a troll ingredient for Pumpkaboo with that tiny inventory 😂

[winged pecan]

THEY BOTH HURT, BUT ATLEAST THE ING LISTS ARENT HORRIBLE

PLUS I GOT DARKRAI IF I EVER WANT TO RUN HIM FOR SOSIG, HE ROLLED IFM

[gray forum]

Why do i always forget to make the pic for here

[elder hazel]

Well, my shiny alt caught the first Darkrai and of course I would roll BFS on it... Since it's shiny locked, I think I will run it on my shiny account 🙂

[dusk sorrel]

Shiny bonsly is obsessed w me

[fading umbra]

cleared some inactives if anyone has room before i try my luck with friend codes again

8238-5879-0679

[kindred sail]

NMD end and no shiny...
My last shiny is a treecko from 2nd anniversary

[tawdry rover]

Good news, folks! All three of the AC adds have good shinies as their final stage.

Bad news! Dwebble is near-identical to the normal form.

(well, okay, good shinies or at least distinct ones. Depending on how you feel about green lasagna crab.)

[fading umbra]

i do think crustle is actually my fav shiny out of the bunch

flygon is ok, salamence is meh to me

[rigid vapor]

Same

ngl I don't rly like flygon's shiny

worst shiny of its line

[fading umbra]

it kinda looks like a moldy chunk of cake

salamence is just Green

[rigid vapor]

ysah

I like it tho

it's not an amazing shiny but it works

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, Flygon's shiny isn't great compared to the others in the line. Might have been fun to make it a shade of orange, in the inverse of how shiny Trapinch goes from orange to greenish? But it's not bad, I'd say, it's just a bit lackluster.

And yeah, Salamence line is just- welp, that's a green dragon alright. Sure is green.

[bright turtle]

if u guys think this wont look good in sleep you’re wrong!!!

[kindred sail]

I love green, so all these new mons are wins

[fading umbra]

green is my favorite color too

[winged pecan]

Green shinies for the win

[winged pecan]

[buoyant fiber]

Dude

Twins

[winged pecan]

Oh shit it's mono

[buoyant fiber]

Damn yours is better

[fading umbra]

yo

[dusk sorrel]

Congrats!!

Magnemite is really good imo

[dusk sorrel]

Wow yall are locked in

[elder hazel]

Meanwhile, I got a dupe shiny Fuecoco that's somehow worse than the first one, which was pretty bad to start with...

[buoyant fiber]

It's shit but at least it'll unlock tomatoes for me, and with some tomato prep I will then be able to start leveling dreameater curry.

I'll also be able to unlock eggs and shrooms as level 60 ingredients whenever the next candy boost is, which WITH PREP will allow me to make jigglypuff flan and spore salad. Cooking will finally be better than making 6k meals every time

[buoyant fiber]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonSleep/comments/1oez0gk/152_resets_later_shiny_charmander_is_here_to/

Funny post considering in the discord we have a whole group of people doing exactly that

[rigid vapor]

[tawdry rover]

Somebody should go shill this server there. See if we can recruit em.

[tawdry rover]

Ooo heck yeah, that’s gonna be really nice when it evolves.

[rigid vapor]

I got the thing you've been searching for for so long

[tawdry rover]

Maybe this'll inspire the other shiny BFS ones to come out of hiding. And if not, well- I do have three Raichus and a 'probably not gonna use this' Pichu, so that ain't bad.

[vale fiber]

I’m pretty sure they are already in this server

[rigid vapor]

Centiskorch fraud 💀

[vale fiber]

Yeah what..

[rigid vapor]

Funny name

[tawdry rover]

is that what it's called when you start painting Weedles red to try to sell them as Sizzlipedes?

[dusk sorrel]

This made me laugh

I think it’s nice seeing people are equally insane like us even if they not here

Also congrats on lil shiny bug!!

[rigid vapor]

[tawdry rover]

Alright, so Halloween Eevee gets pumpkins. Not in any decent amount, but it's an unlock, at least?

[winged pecan]

Ooo not bad

Just gotta save it for eevee week/NMD

[tawdry rover]

well my berry roll for my alt is Ghost/Water/Ground, and I have
checks notes
a Banette, two Feraligatrs, and a Swampert.

I think I'm good.

(first roll was Ghost/Steel/Psychic, which I reset. First roll on my main, funnily enough, was Ghost/Psychic/Steel, which I also reset.)

[fading umbra]

i got grass fighting ghost, my bayleef is going to carry cuz it just reached bfs

[elder hazel]

My shiny account got flying and fairy, besides ghost. On my main I got fire and psychic. 😂 Gg ex easy mode on those berry roll on my main

[fading umbra]

got dragon bug on main i am just being carried by eclairs there so its no big deal

[rigid vapor]

Back to back shinies

[tawdry rover]

...well, it's shiny!

[fading umbra]

-goesokayat100

[rigid vapor]

fr lol

if only it was flipped upside-down

nature too lol

[dusk sorrel]

Bro is cooking

[tawdry rover]

Dreamed I got my alt’s first double shiny, and it was a hat Eevee and some kind of hat Pumpkaboo.

Woke up to my main having both witch hat pikas, without shiny ofc, so apparently those’re both a thing.

[rigid vapor]

rip

I have to admit that I've also dreamed I got a double shiny before

[winged pecan]

Ive dreamt a triple shiny it was bad

[tawdry rover]

Same. Kind annoying to wake up from and realize that wasn't real.

I want three whole guys!

[tawdry rover]

Hm. 9 styles away from OGPP unlock. I might give that a try next week- three Raichus, a Banette, and a Sylveon should do okay even without particularly good stats.

That'd get me some good Pichu spawns to try and get my BFS one, plus I could start on a Grubbin medal and I'd even still be seeing the occasional Quaxly and Pawmi.

Maybe I'll cycle between Cyan and OGPP? One week at Cyan to get to M3 as quickly as possible and then stockpile ingredients, one week at OGPP.

[buoyant fiber]

I'm one sleepstyle away from ogpp lmao

Haven't been getting it for a week

[tawdry rover]

Halloween oughta do it, with the new Eevee and the Pumpkaboos about.

[buoyant fiber]

Surely

[fathom heart]

Just got the shiny starter, so I can start the shiny only run.
Any tips on what to do in the beginning? I know its mainly rng but maybe some small optimizations?

[elder hazel]

Pray if you are a religious person

[buoyant fiber]

There´s not a whole lot of optimization at the start except for building FL

And just.. hoping

Napping could be good for the extra spawns

And use your incenses during shiny boosted things, like NMD or other events

[elder hazel]

But welcome to the shiny only club. And yes, napping is almost mandatory

[buoyant fiber]

Don´t hesitate to use your resources like handy candies btw

[fathom heart]

ty, will do

https://tenor.com/view/hallal-cat-gif-25588409

[elder hazel]

Do you have a main account?

[dusk sorrel]

Congrats !! Welcome to the club

I’d say invest your biscuits into a pokemon you want to get bronze. Can also try to add friends and ask them to give you charmander candy. You also got a lil chef so might rely on cooking early

But yeah really beginning is luck

And try ti make your charmander as strong as possible

[fathom heart]

Ye, just got a new phone and saw that reddit post about shiny starters
So decided to try this on my old one

[elder hazel]

Imo having a main account is good because you can worry about strategizing on your main and play the shiny account for fun. It may take a month in the beginning just to get a full team of shinies, so if you don't have a main account to keep you occupied it will be rough

[fading umbra]

shiny alt is great bc even if their stats mostly suck, you get excited about every mon you get to use

[dusk sorrel]

Or make the shiny only one your main

If you are insane enough to do that

[elder hazel]

Yeah, you end up with pokemon you normally wouldn't use. Looking at my dual Ratata team...

Btw my shiny account is now "Darkrai and his shiny friends" account

Since the devs are now basically forcing Darkrai on us

[fading umbra]

i loved that change on my main, now i have to personally pretend darkrai doesn't exist in my box on my alt

[kindred sail]

Yea I'm enjoying this challenge so far Tho currently I'm still stuck at this lighting bug...

The screen is brighter, but taking pic make it less painful to see... I can't see some of my mons

[dusk sorrel]

I’m gonna start saving eureka candies IN CASE it takes like 5 or 10 to make him shiny

Which I doubt will happen

But a man can be delusional

[elder hazel]

First Halloween Eevee!! But it's on my main!

[kindred sail]

Awhh it would be awesome to get in shiny acc one..

[tawdry rover]

Definite mixed blessing, because on the one hand: pumpkins, and also a trophy. On the other hand: it’s not very good.

[elder hazel]

Even if it's not good, at least on my shiny account I would use it. On my main, it's just going to sit in the box until one day I'm desperate for box space and then get transferred

[buoyant fiber]

I think just the fact that it unlocks pumpkins would be enough for me. Additionally, having an ing magnet mon on an acc where the gathering of ingredients is pretty limited... I would find a way to make it work

[tawdry rover]

ooo that’s not what I was looking for but I’ll take it

Unfortunate nature for a berrymon.

But hey, dragon! Eventually!

Oh, hey, my main’s last shiny was a Swablu too, so now the icons on both accounts match.

[rigid vapor]

[rigid vapor]

My first shiny swablu was shit too dw

my second had BFS

Kinda crazy that now that I look at all my mons, I have 3 usable shiny berry mons

[tawdry rover]

I have four mons with BFS. A Pupitar, a Metapod (BFS75), a HB BFS Ekans, and a Pichu… with BFS100.

[rigid vapor]

Oh yeah u have a crazy good ekans

my shiny Ekans is BFS + HSM so we both have good shiny sneks

[tawdry rover]

There’s a reason I’m trying to make this Ekans my first lvl50. 50 unlocks BFS on it and earns it a near-permanent spot on my team.

[rigid vapor]

fr

[tawdry rover]

HB BFS on pretty much any berrymon should brute force a lot of things earlier in the game.

[rigid vapor]

They were talking about trading in general, and if we ever get trading in psleep I'm going back to shiny only on my main

I can def get some good shinies for my God Garde

[tawdry rover]

I think the trading patent was for sort of a wonder trade style mechanic?

[rigid vapor]

pls no

[tawdry rover]

So, don’t bet on actually being able to trade.

[rigid vapor]

No one would ever trade good shinies then

[tawdry rover]

It might randomize stats, though.

[rigid vapor]

That would be cool

[tawdry rover]

Downside: can’t trade a good stat mon for anything. Upside: can trade away a bad shiny and someone might have it turn good.

[rigid vapor]

I like keeping all the shinies I catch tho

[rigid vapor]

Yup

[tawdry rover]

If trading does come out and does work that way, I’ll trade all the dupe shinies from my main so people can maybe enjoy em.

There’s a Ralts in there somewhere I’d be willing to send out, for one.

[rigid vapor]

yeah

[elder hazel]

If that happens, I'm going to "trade" all my shiny from my main to my alt 🤣

[tawdry rover]

Unless it’s wonder trade style.

Which it would probably be, since this isn’t a very social game. Not inherently, at least.

IIRC the patent is for a wonder-trade-style thing with stat randomizing? Don’t quote me on that, though.

[elder hazel]

I guess we will just have to wait and see

[elder hazel]

Omg omg omg...

An actual shiny Witchatchu, on my actual shiny account!

[tawdry rover]

Ooo, very nice1 It's even got speed!

[elder hazel]

I know! But just the fact that it's not speed down nature, is already better than most of my shinies right now 😂

[fading umbra]

damn, good going everyone... i really need to try to unlock GGEX on my alt so i can get that sweet shiny boost from there

[tawdry rover]

The unfortunate thing about GGEX is that you might get very, very few spawns there most weeks, and I'm pretty skeptical that the shiny chance is increased as much as we'd want in order to compensate for that. If GGEX gets you half as many spawns as GG, then the shiny chance would have to be over twice what it is at GG to give increased odds over just sitting on GG.

[fading umbra]

yea, you're probably right. my shiny alt is f2p, a month younger, and has only been on GG compared to my main -- and they are about even on the amount of shinies now, due to the variability of luck and probably increased spawns from napping/GG-maxxing lol

[tawdry rover]

Napping does make a huge difference in spawn numbers.

Are you catching Pichus? Those were my big target for awhile, to get FL40.

I figure that since Pichu is pretty common, Pikachu can be easily evolved into Raichu due to only requiring a stone instead of a particular level,and Raichu is fast enough to brute force a lot of strength regardless of favored berry, that's a high priority to at least get to FL10. Not that FL40 has done me any good, mind you- I've found two shiny Pichus, one of which was at FL39 and had bad stats and one of which was at FL40 and had BFS... at 100.

(obviously YMMV)

[fading umbra]

i catch them when i see them, but since i recently passed FL10 on them, i try to only do it when they're hungry (i'm actually running low on biscuits recently )

all my current mons are berry mons, pretty much, with like 2 ABC ing mons, so i've been throwing more biscuits at ing mons with the hope of getting some of them to FL10 someday

and i always try to use incenses + friendship incenses on NMDs

[gentle marsh]

Couldn’t be me bro

I did get a shiny hat Eevee though on main

[fading umbra]

oh, now that i think about it -- i also catch eevees, mostly bc eevee week is coming up, i think it overlaps with a NMD? and i desperately need a healer because i think i have solid mons, i just need a way to keep them energized

[elder hazel]

Same 🤣

[elder hazel]

I only feed hungry mons, so I'm doing ok with biscuits

[gentle marsh]

Twins

[kindred sail]

Finally a shiny

[elder hazel]

Shiny Halloween Eevee for everyone!! 😂

[kindred sail]

No bad

So now I've 2 berrymons and 4 skill mons

[elder hazel]

That's crazy... I actually don't have a single skill mon on my shiny account

[kindred sail]

Raticate will retire since I need ing magnet of butterfree Xd

[bright turtle]

on the shiny alt and decent stats too!

[tawdry rover]

oooo very nice!

[elder hazel]

Congrats!

[elder hazel]

My "Darkrai and shiny friends" account is coming along nicely

[tawdry rover]

Oo, that is nice! If a bit funny that everything you have is in roughly the same color scheme. You need some cool tones in there.

[fading umbra]

oh yea, that's a very coherent color palette

mine feels very autumnal

[elder hazel]

You tell that to the shiny god!

[rigid vapor]

[winged pecan]

Good news, I should be able to unlock lapis this week

Bad news, I probably shouldn't

I'll send the last of my newbie bonus there though

[fading umbra]

twins!!!!

[tawdry rover]

janky photo and I didn't get the nice evolution screenshots, but I have a newly-evolved yellowbeast too!

[winged pecan]

[buoyant fiber]

Genuinely couldn't tell until it got shiny sparkles in the hungry screen. It's not great, but i will never complain about more berry mons or about more coverage for GGEX (even though this is my third electric mon)

[bright turtle]

nice!

[elder hazel]

I'm not too far behind you... 15 more styles to go

[kindred sail]

Got a pink quaq this morning, an ing mon my best mon yet in term of stat but ABA

[kindred sail]

Maybe aba it's a good thing, I finally unlocked mushrooms & potatoes

[winged pecan]

Holy quag

[wheat berry]

Gah damn

[tawdry rover]

Oh, that is really quite solid! ABB might have been better, but it's basically the same until lvl60 anyway, which it ain't gonna hit quickly.

Especially not with that nature. Congrats!

[tawdry rover]

Oh, whoops, forgot to get the journal entry for flying-type berries before I evolved my Swablu. Ah well.

[elder hazel]

That's a big oops

[tawdry rover]

Eh, I can get the 20 diamonds next flying type. Doduo or another Swablu are probably my most likely candidates.

[tawdry rover]

-nextmonth

[paper iris]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1131595498009133067/1421131055141879938/Pokemon_Sleep_Calendar_Nov.jpg?ex=68d7eaee&is=68d6996e&hm=8e64c210ce5be54df2bcdffb5b1ffcdd81c8f07f6ca101553943508eebbd8562

[tawdry rover]

NMD overlaps with the new-mons-on-GG event 👀

and presumably also Eevee week, though I don't think that one's confirmed for this year.

[winged pecan]

I will cry if there's no eevee week this year especially since its the year of eevee

[tawdry rover]

I wish we knew whether the Christmas shiny buff is bigger than the NMD one. I assume it is, but I don't know that I wanna wait until Christmas to use this Pumpkaboo incense.

...then again it is already November somehow.

[winged pecan]

How long is the Christmas event usually? Is it just the 2 weeks for Christmas and new years?

Duplicate shiny

Somehow worse than my other one

8 shinies and 2 of them are dupes

[tawdry rover]

#game-news message
Looks like last year it was one week?

Hm- after these event weeks, I think I'm going to park on Cyan for awhile. I need both Spheal and Quaxly, and Cyan is both relatively easy and in possession of both of those.

This week I'm on OGPP due to having just unlocked it. Figured it was worth a try for some Pichus.

[elder hazel]

First week on ogpp is going to be rough

[fading umbra]

finally sending my alt to lapis for the first time since i have my meganium now would love any healer at this point, fully considering seeding my chansey lmao

[winged pecan]

Ah damn, no chance of NMD overlap then

[tawdry rover]

Usually when there are two events with the same thing boosted they just apply the bigger chance anyway, rather than adding or multiplying. So NMD shiny boost wouldn’t get stacked with Xmas’ boost even if they did coincide.

[tawdry rover]

I have three Raichus and a Banette, so hopefully it won’t be too terrible. But yeah, I do not expect a high strength ranking. Fortunately I don’t need it to get at least a pinch of the cool stuff.

I’m here to look at Pichus and Magnemites, and hopefully catch a couple Grubbins for FL.

[winged pecan]

I know they wouldn't stack, but atleast those nights would guarantee the highest chance

[tawdry rover]

I have to imagine the once-a-year holiday shiny bonus is stronger than NMD’s bonus. Or at least equal.

[elder hazel]

The first year we had one week event for Christmas, and one week event for New Years. But last year we had one week event for Christmas, and a 2-week event for New Years. So it was three weeks long

[stiff agate]

Is this worth running

I also have this one which I don't use bc I didn't feel like it was doing enough

[elder hazel]

I mean, Wiggly is outshined by the new e4e, so if you don't feel like your old one is doing enough then the new one will probably do even less as far as healing goes. HB is very nice though

[fading umbra]

i think bard II is better

energy recovery - is also not very nice on e4es

[stiff agate]

I really should do some calcs but I'm soooo lazy

[winged pecan]

It's not horrible

[fading umbra]

holy shit congrats

thats amazing for a shiny alt

[tawdry rover]

Oh that's very nice, congrats!

That's far from not horrible, at least for a shiny alt.

[tawdry rover]

Trapinch being added to Taupe has probably sealed my island plans for the next while: a week or two on Cyan to look for Quaxly and Spheal and to gather ingredients, then a week on Taupe with those stored ingredients. Somewhere in there I might try a Snowdrop for the first time.

[elder hazel]

There's a chance Trapinch can show up on Taupe after AC drops tomorrow, right? That's what brought me to Taupe this week

[tawdry rover]

Oh, good thought. The news doesn't specifically mention when the mons will be released, just that Amber Canyon is out on the 6th and has those mons on it, so... maybe?

Because surely they won't be adding AC without the exclusives, and it'd be odd to have the exclusives show up on just one island and not other ones for a few days.

[elder hazel]

I guess we shall see! After Taupe this week, then it's back to GG for two weeks for the AC event

[tawdry rover]

I went to OGPP this week because I just unlocked it and I got excited, TBH.

All the OGPP exclusive shinies are really nice, coffee would be amazing, and I still hold out hope for a BFS Pichu.

Oo, two (non-shiny) Aron spawns from my nap.

[tawdry rover]

Oh, nice, Trapinch is the new avocado farmer! So we have a shot at avocados without having to get to AC.

[buoyant fiber]

Good thing I hadn't raised my caterpie yet

[kindred sail]

Bfs

[dusk sorrel]

Woke up to a new shiny

[fading umbra]

so golden!

[dusk sorrel]

Yes but not the one I need

I also got Ralts to Silver

Should I stay in Expert mode or try out the new Amber canyon

[stiff agate]

I'm gonna go get my ass beat in amber canyon but only on main

Alt doesn't have it yet

[elder hazel]

Amber Canyon isn't too bad, not as hard as GG EX

[fading umbra]

really desperate for a healer on my shiny alt so hoping for eevee week news soon... then i can think about m18 on gg

[tawdry rover]

Definitely head for AC for the event, at least, if you have the mons to score reasonably well there.

[elder hazel]

My main is hanging out at AC, my "Darkrai and shiny friends" account is going to GG

[dusk sorrel]

Thanks I’ll go to AC next week

[tawdry rover]

I'm just happy that NMD intersects with the new mons being on GG. I'll be using a GCT that week.

[tawdry rover]

How are y'all doing on friendship medals? I have Pichu at FL40, Quaxly at FL18 (headed to FL40), and Spheal, Eevee, Rattata, Slowpoke, Magnemite, Swablu, Happiny, Totodile, Cleffa, Torchic, and (as of this morning) Pawmi at FL10-13.

Also Pumpkaboo at FL8, which ain't bad. Just added another to that one this morning.

[winged pecan]

My togepi is at FL22

[buoyant fiber]

really bad. a couple at but i've not been very efficient with that

[elder hazel]

Honestly I'm not too concerned about FL. Yes, it increases shiny chance, but the chance is low enough to start with, it doesn't really matter imo.

Data point of one: on my main, I'm FL 80 with Spheal. Guess how many shiny Spheals I have? (Zero)

[tawdry rover]

I don't think we know the shiny boost well enough to tell if it matters at all.

What with one FL40 medal not being a very large data pool and all that.

[winged pecan]

I'm just glad to have eevee at FL10 now

Especially if eevee week and NMD line up

[elder hazel]

I don't know the exact number, but don't we have a rough idea what the shiny rate is? Like one in 200 or something? So even if the boost is to double the shiny rate, which I think is highly unlikely, that's still a very low rate.

[tawdry rover]

I think it's somewhere roughly circa 1/140?

I figure every little bit helps, and it's not like I have much to do with these biscuits other than raise FL anyway.

[fading umbra]

shiny rate data collection thread seems to show about that average

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, that's where I got the number.

I'd love to see an attempt to figure out the medal boost rates, but that seems like a tricky prospect, since it involves recording when someone hits a given medal and then somehow figuring out how many sightings of a given mon they've had since then.

I'm sure someone is doing it.

[elder hazel]

When the rate is that low, "every little bit" does really matter. For example, if you buy two lottery tickets, you are in theory doubling your chance of winning. But it really doesn't matter when the chance of winning is small. Now, shiny rate is definitely higher than chance of winning lottery, but imo when it comes to playing a shiny account, there's not really that much optimization that matters. It's just better to be lucky than good.

[tawdry rover]

I mean, I can't exactly make myself luckier.

[elder hazel]

Taking naps is about the only optimization that actually matters.

[tawdry rover]

Again, I don't have anything else to do with the biscuits. And I'd still rather have a, let's say 1/120 chance over 1/140.

[elder hazel]

Right. So the only thing you can do is to just be. That's why I do all the optimization in my main to get that out of my system.

[tawdry rover]

I mean, fair, but I'm still gonna try for FL10 on a bunch of things. It doesn't hurt.

[elder hazel]

I mean that's fine. I'm just saying in the end it matters very little

[tawdry rover]

Not quite the same as it not mattering at all, yanno? And, hey, if it's something I want a medal for, the candies are probably worth getting just in case.

[fading umbra]

i went from 0 shiny mudkips on my main to 2 after hitting FL10, so i always choose to believe

its not like we have a lot of biscuit targets otherwise

[elder hazel]

Like I mentioned above, I'm FL 80 with Spheal and zero shiny

[fading umbra]

i mean, its never a guaranteed shiny spawn no matter what, luck is always a factor, but you can do what you can to ever so slightly make it easier to get lucky

[elder hazel]

Do you guys have a source for biscuits that I'm not utilizing? 😂 Besides throwing biscuits at hungry, I don't use mine, and currently I have zero regular biscuits

[tawdry rover]

Probably not.

[fading umbra]

i started during anniv so i had a pretty large amount

other than that i just held onto those and double dipped early on for all the biscuits, and now i only throw extra biscuits at things i want to fl grind

[winged pecan]

I had a bunch from anniversary, but I chuck all my biscuits at togepi and cleffa

So I'm currently at zero

[kindred sail]

My bags keep being full, I don't think I can savepoke biscuits more than 30+

So recently I've been reducing it to like 10+ only

[dusk sorrel]

Here is my updated medals

Which are my main shiny hunts most of the time

Clarification I have a lot of pikachus and caterpie lines

Who else should I add to the target hunt list ? And I try not to add more medals to em if I get them shiny already

[tawdry rover]

Oo, very nice!

I'm inclined to suggest Swablu, both for AC and because it's a cool shiny. And I expect a lot of those of us looking for medals to be hunting the Taupe Trapinches.

Quaxly? Runs the risk of being AAA or just not good, but if you get really lucky on stats that's super good for several dishes.

[dusk sorrel]

I might do Amber Canyon for the event in then move around

But trapinch looks good

I woke up to a lil fellow

I like expert mode because I can use all my shinies and I get different candy types to level all of em up

Plus the shinies be more random (for the most part)

[tawdry rover]

Ooo, cotton candy!

[prime ferry]

I hope to add a shiny bagon to my shiny team during this weeks event . I don’t have the canyon unlocked yet unfortunately so I got 2 weeks to try and get the lil green guy

[winged pecan]

[tawdry rover]

It's new beasts time for those of us not at AC! Today we got: green dragon, blue-green dragon, and checks notes moldy dirt lasagna.

[winged pecan]

Moldy dirty lasagna

[tawdry rover]

I'm a nice round number of exp, and about 11k shards, away from Baby's First Skill Trigger on this one!

[tawdry rover]

lvl50 acquired! My first lvl50 mon, no less. Calm nature (msc up, soh down) and STS (which can't be seeded because of STM at 75) ought to get me a few procs.

[rigid vapor]

[dusk sorrel]

CONGRATS

Big milestone !!

[fading umbra]

its weird but i think of the three amber mons, dwebble would be insanely good for my shiny alt -- the chance to unlock a bunch of ingredients is very tempting, and it can outproduce a flygon if it happens to be mono (also way easier than the other two to get a high roll)

i won't complain about the other two and i've come around to flygon's shiny quite a bit, but a decent dwebble would really accelerate my account

[tawdry rover]

Yeah, Crustle does seem more likely to be able to get a bunch of avocadoes than Flygon, since it doesn't need to roll AAX to get more than a couple.

Unrelated, I can feel my brain trying to go "surely I'm due for a shiny any day now". No, brain, that's not how that works.

[rigid vapor]

It is how it works

I also haven't gotten a shiny in a bit

[tawdry rover]

Sadly, flipping a coin three times and getting heads every time doesn't guarantee the next flip to be tails.

[rigid vapor]

Exactly

It's a 50/50

either u get the shiny

or u don't

[sage pumice]

It's true

Moo hadn't gotten a shiny in months then got a shiny crustle with good stats yesterday

[tawdry rover]

Remember to pop a GCT this week, those of y'all without AC access yet, for that increased chance of shiny AC exclusives!

(at least, I sure have. I figure this is a great time to get extra spawns + extra speed in getting to max spawns, even if it does seem like no Eevee week. Maybe we'll get an Eevee day.)

[rigid vapor]

Wait what?

[buoyant fiber]

NMD + GCT = more spawns with more shiny chances

[tawdry rover]

Yep!

[rigid vapor]

Oooh yeah got it

Thx guys

[tawdry rover]

aaand that is my second shiny-Caterpie-on-my-main in about two weeks.

changing my icon from shiny Caterpie to shiny Caterpie to reflect this

[fading umbra]

where is my shiny caterpie

[tawdry rover]

NMD incenses time! First up: Dwebble.

Also, I’m kinda excited for Spiritomb. The shiny is so cool, and it’s a really funny mon to add tp the cute game.

[elder hazel]

I wonder what Spiritomb is going to be... Ingredient specialist? Another ing magnet or ing draw skill specialist? I would assume it's related to ingredient since it's releasing during the packed portion event

[rigid vapor]

I think skill

That seems to be the pattern with new mons they individually add

[elder hazel]

Well, another ingredient draw skill specialist incoming! 😂

[kindred sail]

Omg I got my first shiny starter!

Ah wait... Forgot he pic... Wait

Look at this lil goober

It's okie, ABC is never bad in this acc

[rigid vapor]

The is crazy

Ik what u mean but like

Nice shiny tho

[buoyant fiber]

It's so cute!!! We're twinning now i also have one (but hes aax)

[buoyant fiber]

It's not cope, it's real.

[tawdry rover]

To be fair, "once this gets to level 60 it's less good" isn't exactly an immediate problem. And, hey, it's got a speed to it and the boosted ability to keep itself energized until you get an E4E, that ain't bad!

[fading umbra]

i don't even have a lvl 60 on my main yet

[tawdry rover]

I do, but I've been playing since week 1 on that account.

[elder hazel]

I'm not a "week one" player but I am a "year one" player

[rigid vapor]

[fading umbra]

i started just about 6 months ago so yeah, i probably have a skewed perspective

[buoyant fiber]

I am a year 2 player and I have 2 lvl 60s, with 2/3 incoming during Christmas boost c:

On my alt I think I might also be able to get there during the candy boost

With the specific intent to unlock eggs (ampharos) and mushrooms (swalot)

[elder hazel]

My priority on my main is to get a few ingredient specialists to level 60 asap. So I haven't even upgraded my pot size yet with the release of AC. Saving my shards for candy boost

[stiff agate]

got a shiny toto and FL was 10.... it was garbage I'm so sad

[wheat berry]

2nd shiny pumpkaboo…

[tawdry rover]

Is it good?

[wheat berry]

Pretty similar to my previous one, unfortunately no pumpkins at 30

[tawdry rover]

Oh, you got the ABA curse.

At least this one's neutral nature?

[wheat berry]

Yeah it’s a slight upgrade at 50, plus I think this one is also a size bigger

[buoyant fiber]

Just got this tiny cutie, very sad that it's aba/that there's no big recipe with that combination

Because i already have this guy and I don't see a reason to raise the new one (except for hb at 75 maybe)

[tawdry rover]

Made this for the first time. Immediately got it to about level 25.

[elder hazel]

One option is to keep the second one as Crocalor for different berry options. That's what I'm doing with my two shinies

[buoyant fiber]

i could, but I have a charizard for fire berries already and he's better at getting sosig than this guy

[winged pecan]

ARE YOU SHITTING ME?

DOUBLE SPEED

[rigid vapor]

MONO TOO

[stiff agate]

Ok obviously not this one in particular, but I was wondering what peoples opinions were about investing in berry mons that aren't actively bad but also don't have bfs

(in the context of a shiny run of course)

[rigid vapor]

I had a HB Raichu that I don't think I ever took off my team

[stiff agate]

If this guy had hb at 10 I'd seriously consider it especially for expert

But level 50 hb with shit in the other slots and plus ing exp down is just so unbelievably bad

[rigid vapor]

This was the Raichu

I still actually use it on ogpp cuz I don't have anything better

But yeah it had HB, was good at collecting apples and ginger overnight cuz of +ing and inv L, and triggered a decent amount cuz of stm

it was my all rounder

And it carried me a lot during the early game so idk

you would be surprised how good berry mons without bfs actually are

[tawdry rover]

I've invested in several, because I'd rather have okayish now than wait for theoretical future BFS.

The thing about berrymons and BFS is that they aren't necessarily bad without it, but BFS is relatively easy to get when you can reroll and is so good that, when hunting a berrymon, you may as well look for the dang thing.

[tawdry rover]

how bout them Delibirds

[dusk sorrel]

If you want me to be honest, when doing my shiny only run I invest in absolutely everything

We have no control over what we get so thinking you can get a BF and waiting keeps you in limbo for a while

I’m in expert mode and I use any shiny honestly, they all become semi useful once leveled and if I do get a good one later on I’ll focus on that one heavy

I hit Masters 1 in AC with a bunch of random shinies lol

[rigid vapor]

[tawdry rover]

So far the only berrymon I haven't put anything into is an atrociously bad Pichu, and I might still have tried using it if not for the fact that I have three Raichus already.

[stiff agate]

In that case.... Should I invest in this houndour? I mean... He's so bad

[tawdry rover]

That is a really bad nature for a berrymon, but it's not out of the question, honestly, depending on what you have and what you find yourself needing.

[rigid vapor]

Dw, I got 4 bad shiny pichus/pikas before I got one with bfs

Keep on trying bro u got this

[tawdry rover]

Technically this last one has BFS! At 100.

[rigid vapor]

[buoyant fiber]

I'm honestly shocked that I have two bfs berry mons

[winged pecan]

The amount of times ive gotten a shiny shuppet, I really should have gotten it to FL10

[stiff agate]

I have a mint but I don't think I could bring myself to use it on that

[tawdry rover]

I would not use it on that.

[fading umbra]

if you have mints still when more mints roll around, you can maybe spend it since you can only carry 2 anyways

also, out of curiosity, has anyone doing a shiny playthrough done a m20 push yet?

[winged pecan]

Probably king papi? I think they're a day 1 shiny account?

[fading umbra]

who's that pokemon

ok. hear me out

[tawdry rover]

oo yeah that's definitely worth at least considering

[winged pecan]

SECOND SHINY TOGE I GET TO SEE TODAY

[fading umbra]

mb i shouldve @ed, i swear i thought i did

[winged pecan]

Stinky smooch

Silly smooch

[tawdry rover]

This thing might be useful for planning, as much as we can plan with this kind of account.

Because this is basically a chart of "how likely is it that a random mon of this species, with no guarantee of good stats, will be able to provide all the ingredients for one of the best meals".

And also, by extension, a(n awkwardly separated) chart of which good meals are easiest to find mons that can get the stuff for. Such as: hoo boy is ginger covered.

[buoyant fiber]

I think I'd be able to soon

[rigid vapor]

Dougie did

[dusk sorrel]

[dusk sorrel]

This is correct but I’ve only hit M20 on gg

I should go back to the other islands and see what I can hit but I’m just chilling on expert

What shiny sleep obsession does to a man

[winged pecan]

I'm sure with the right amount of ing prep, you could probably M20 cyan or taupe during a cooking event

[rigid vapor]

guys

[buoyant fiber]

I am so jealous of how many shinies you have lmao

I'm currently camping dozing on OGPP, hoping for a shiny grubbin or pumpkaboo, and getting a ton of caterpie candy in the meantime for my BFS metapod

[tawdry rover]

oh boy/oh no

y'all cross your fingers this isn't AAA

Fuck's sake.

[tawdry rover]

Oh that's so good, congrats! I'd use that on my main and be delighted with it.

[tawdry rover]

Just did the math. The batch of mons that had this Quaxwell brought me up to 2721 spawns (other than the tutorial sleep ones), meaning, if I have all my numbers down right, it's been 338 spawns since my last shiny.

[winged pecan]

You already have a beans mon?

[rigid vapor]

It's not mine

but it's actually crazy

[tawdry rover]

I have an ABC Tyranitar with good stats that I expect to never unlock the C, so I kinda already do, yeah. I'm torn between leveling this at least to 30 and evolving it, and saving all my candies for a hopeful future leek-having Quaxly.

[fading umbra]

oh ok nice! i was just debating whether it was worth using a precious GCT for packed portions to try to m18/m20 for GGEX....

[tawdry rover]

wooo back-to-back shinies and this one ain’t bad at all

Immediate shiny Meganium time.

[stiff agate]

Brother why??

[rigid vapor]

damnn nice one

double speed is rly nice

[rigid vapor]

herb ing mon

[tawdry rover]

I'm so tempted to subseed my Honchkrow. This sucker just gave me a tidy five thousand dream shards.

Remind me, do we get subseeds every now and then during events or am I misremembering?

[rigid vapor]

those are main seeds

subseeds are extremely limited for f2p accounts

[tawdry rover]

I know we get the main seeds occasionally, but I could swear we’ve gotten sub seeds from- maybe a couple of very rare “X downloads” type gifts?

I’m very tempted to main seed this thing. It’s not like I’m likely to get a good shiny Gulpin, after all.

[rigid vapor]

can't remember

[tawdry rover]

Where are y’all headed tomorrow?

I think I’m just going to GG. Lapis is tempting for the higher Spiritomb and Quaxly chance, but I don’t think I’ll be able to get a high score very fast, and there’s a long list of tempting mons on GG. Pumpkaboo in particular.

[winged pecan]

Definitely going GG, not like i can do well anywhere else

[stiff agate]

Do you think the next expert area will be cyan (going in order) or somewhere else?

Wondering if I should go to cyan to try for m18

[buoyant fiber]

Sure you can! I got one super randomly too

[buoyant fiber]

Probably best to wait til you can m20 so you dont have to spend those resources twice

[stiff agate]

I generally don't spend much

Maybe a gct

But I'm prem so I have them to spend

[tawdry rover]

I know it’s possible, it’s just not likely. Whereas I already have the Honchkrow.

[tawdry rover]

Fingers crossed at least one of us gets a shiny Spiritomb during the upcoming week. It's a great shiny, and the chance at pumpkins is nice.

[fading umbra]

shrooms and pumpkins are both great unlocks for me

[elder hazel]

You all are getting shinies?

[fading umbra]

i did get one on the shalt this morning and posted it everywhere else but here

[elder hazel]

Both my main and "Rai and shinies" account are on Lapis this week, a first 😂

[fading umbra]

got a swablu to match the togepi i found the same week

coincidentally i also rolled dragon berries

[dusk sorrel]

I’m actually in Taupe which is a really rare occurence

This is the lineup

Hoping to get at least M15

[bright turtle]

good luck goat

[buoyant fiber]

RAAAAAAAH

Im so happy

This is what I was hunting on OGPP for

[dusk sorrel]

Holy congrats

[tawdry rover]

holy cow you got an AAA with non-horrible stats, congrats!

[tawdry rover]

Hmm- judging by last year, we have two weeks of prep time and then the shiny boosted holiday event starting on the 22nd. That's probably a safe assumption for this year, and hopefully we get that 2-week new year event with newly released mons on GG so we can all get second shots at AC exclusives.

I might head to Snowdrop next week for what's probably the first time, to see if I can get a Spheal.

[tawdry rover]

Hm. This Quaxwell is kinda tempting to invest in, actually- might do that eventually. If nothing else, it'll be able to replace my Pupitar if/when the eventual TTar ever hits 60 and stops being good for beans. (it's ABC)

[tawdry rover]

Alright, I evolved it.

I like Quaxwel’s shiny better than Quaquavel’s, with all that pretty light blue and the bit of dark blue contrast, but Quaquavel’s isn’t too bad. The faded look is better than some I’ve seen.

[fathom heart]

just got my second after 37 days, 3 more to go
would have been nice if it had more oil but I'll take it

[dusk sorrel]

CONGRATS

Croagunk was my second shiny aswell so I’m v happy for you

[tawdry rover]

Ah, nice, the stats are non-terrible and that's a pretty shiny! Congrats!

[wheat berry]

My starter is back

[winged pecan]

Ginger

[tawdry rover]

Whoops, that's not where I meant to send this.

Woe, American Avocet be upon ye I guess?

[fading umbra]

this is relevant always

[tawdry rover]

I'm lucky enough to live in a spot where a lot of ducks and other waterbirds come for the winter, because it's the first place they find on their way south where the lakes don't freeze over, and there's a water treatment plant near(ish) me that gets thousands of em. I've been going out there to look at stuff.

These Buffleheads (lil bitty diving ducks) are probably my favorite. They're terrible to photograph if you don't get lucky and spot em while they're grooming, though, because when they're feeding they spend more time underwater than on top of it. In the right light, these breeding-plumage males are iridescent around the black parts of their head- they're gorgeous.

[fading umbra]

i just got 3 shinies in 2 days also @winged pecan i got a second shiny toge

[winged pecan]

I'm gonna steal your toes

[tawdry rover]

luckyyyy

[fading umbra]

usable pichu

[tawdry rover]

oh extra lucky

My main has a couple Raichus at about that level of stats, never mind what my alt's been dealing with.

also my main caught a shiny Mawile that's kinda solid actually

[fading umbra]

my shiny alt just surpassed my main for shinies

[winged pecan]

Well, show the others

[fading umbra]

gunk was meh, toge was worse than the first one i caught

[winged pecan]

I'm upset you've caught 2 shiny toge before I've caught a single one on my alt

[fading umbra]

idek how, toge was at fl1

[winged pecan]

I'm hoping my first shiny toge atleast has HB

[fading umbra]

sending omelette ur way

WAIT omelette can evolve again

i forgot i have a free shiny stone

[winged pecan]

Shiny stone

[fading umbra]

i now understand the appeal of the friendly happy kite

[winged pecan]

Only a few

[rigid vapor]

BIRD

[rigid vapor]

WWWW

holy, that is gonna carry you so much

[fading umbra]

i have two bfs berry mons on my shalt now my alt has the berry mon luck but no ing mon luck, my main has ing mon luck but no berry mon luck

[tawdry rover]

Oh, neat, just noticed that the shiny Quaxwell I caught was the first Quaxwell my alt has seen.

I was looking to see what in my roster was caught with the fewest sightings. My Heracross wins second place, with only three sightings and one of em being shiny.

[buoyant fiber]

Thats an interesting piece of info

I think my kanga wins because my two first ones were shiny, but aside from that most of them were probably after more sightings

[fathom heart]

Back to back shiny, 2 more until I have a full team.

[winged pecan]

Not horrible, atleast its a leek unlock

[tawdry rover]

My main just got a shiny amped Toxtricity with non-awful stats. That’s the second shiny on my main this week that I woulda been thrilled with on my alt.

[elder hazel]

Finally! The last shiny I got was on Oct 29th. It has been too long

This may become my healer for now...

[tawdry rover]

Okay, that's pretty solid. AAA HB + HSS Slowpoke- congrats, you might actually want to make tail dishes sometimes!

[elder hazel]

Thanks. Yes, I can finally unlock tails now

Just need to get it to level 30 first

[dusk sorrel]

What a lovely shiny

Incredibly helpful in my opinion plus tails are one of those rarer ingredients in a shiny only run

[buoyant fiber]

Yeah thats not a bad one at all

[winged pecan]

Freak spotted

Bold trash dupe

[rigid vapor]

nice shiny?

[winged pecan]

My other one is triple ing with a trigger

And not speed down

[rigid vapor]

[winged pecan]

This guy might be nice for snowdrop though