The Shiny Hunters

[calm helm]

If that doesn't work, I've got Koraidon and Slither Wing

[ember parrot]

oh i dont have to level anything yippie

i guess i didnt have to regardless since i managed wo chien just fine with an unbuilt random 100 scizor

[left raptor]

My Arceus is ready to kill

[swift hinge]

Hello

This weekend’s haul

My mons were not behaving so… in text form:

This weekend I acquired:
✨ Torkoal
✨ Bellossom (Oddish event)
✨ Vileplume (Oddish event)
✨ Rolycoly (not pictured)
✨ Gigalith
✨ Liligant (Petilil event)
✨ Scovillain (Capsakis event)
✨ Sableye
✨ Roaring Moon
✨ Gabite
✨ Zweilous

[somber phoenix]

Yooooo lets go Deemo

[fathom stump]

Holy

[merry ibex]

Nice

[grand kestrel]

new week new shinies to catch

[somber phoenix]

oh so true

and this time i need all of them aiaiaiai

[merry ibex]

3 shiny frigibax
2 shiny snorunt
1 shiny cubchoo
1 shiny magikarp
1 shiny tadbulb

[somber phoenix]

i think i will do a sandwich for this. frigibax is egh

[swift hinge]

3 shiny Frigibax is hype

On your way to that living ✨ Pokedex

[merry ibex]

i did not use a sandwich

for the magikarp or tadbulb

they just appeared when i was shiny hunting

[swift hinge]

I love and hate when that happens

[somber phoenix]

Shiny haul of the day:
PLA:
Bunneary
Lickitung
Stantler
SPIRITOMB
Hippoppotas
Stunky
Scarlet:
3 Frigibax
3 Snorunts
2 Cubcho
2 Jangmo-o
3 Zweillous
ROARING MOON

[swift hinge]

THREE Frigibax

This dude a masochist or what

Imp too

[somber phoenix]

nono they spawned in the grass area so it was super visible. (it took me 5 min for 3)

[swift hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/pokemon-legends-arceus-pokemon-shiny-pokemon-spiritomb-spiritomb-pokemon-gif-27622979

[somber phoenix]

that could have literally been my clip today. My 1 year hunt for a spiritomb is finally over...

[swift hinge]

Oh that's nice

[swift hinge]

A chapter closes

What's the next long hunt

[ember parrot]

celebi crystal VC

[swift hinge]

Celebi not attainable in SwoSh?

[somber phoenix]

anyway excuse the ping @here (most people are online)
We are currently casually hunting in vc and will be raiding down the next ruin beast (and herba)
Join us for some raids or hunts or chills :D

[ember parrot]

pretty sure its locked

[swift hinge]

Oh that's a mythical isn't it

[ember parrot]

ye

[somber phoenix]

i might go for celebi. But once i have my switch 2 it will be reseting in bdsp for Darkrai, Arceus and Shaymin

[swift hinge]

Can Pokemon join cross region I've never tried

[somber phoenix]

for raids? we have played plenty with zekky

[swift hinge]

Oh sick

Sadly idk if I'll be available before the EU folks bounce.

Maybe I can try to get on for lunch

[somber phoenix]

its okay if not we have 2 weeks time for it. it is 2 weeks right?

[ember parrot]

si

[somber phoenix]

epic. Hey torchic. SWSH raiding.... perhaps later?

[ember parrot]

hmmmmmmmmmmmm

honestly yeah im down

[grand kestrel]

brother look at the garage

[grand kestrel]

we are on a roll today

[ember parrot]

mike this does not guarantee anything

[somber phoenix]

ima pin that for the duration

[ember parrot]

you know the dynamax adventures gods are merciless

[grand kestrel]

shhhhhhhhhh

[somber phoenix]

but mike is overdueeeee

[grand kestrel]

it's shinies today

[swift hinge]

I should really do the post game for Sword so I can do Dynamax ADventure

I've never tried

[ember parrot]

bro has been overdue for years

[swift hinge]

Seems fun tho

[somber phoenix]

oh wait nvm

[fathom stump]

what do you need to be able to do the raids?

[swift hinge]

In SV?

[somber phoenix]

eh. a good mon i suppose

[grand kestrel]

I have got one singular shiny marowak from dynaraids

[ember parrot]

in SV? literally any good counter thats lvl 100

[somber phoenix]

In SV level 100 starter like me is enough

in swsh we have rental mons

[swift hinge]

For these Ruin Beasts you don't even need a level 100 mon

It's only a 5 star

[fathom stump]

did i even get one mon to 100

[swift hinge]

Level 70+ is fine

[fathom stump]

i think i did

i'll try after dinners

[somber phoenix]

oh right yea level 70 works. I think for this its easy to use Skeledirge or iron hands.

[rose ridge]

What's on the menu

[grand kestrel]

our newest victim

[grand kestrel]

melted chien pao

[somber phoenix]

Chien-Pao battle would be up next rn

[swift hinge]

Good shiny

Easy raid too

Just don't care about stats because it uses Haze constantly.

[somber phoenix]

easy herba aswell

oh good tipp

we gonna wait a bit and then start some of the chien pao raids. whenever someone wants to join we are up to help

[swift hinge]

It also flinches with Icicle Crash

[calm helm]

Brian Hands actually worked, despite the Haze uses

[grand kestrel]

haul of today:
3 fridgibax
3 snorunt
3 cubcho
3 popplio

[left raptor]

Shinies I got last night while hunting for Snorunts:
2 Snorunts
1 Koffing
2 Charmanders

[swift hinge]

Brian Hands...

No it works. All you really need is one good full powered punch really

[calm helm]

Shatter the ice mink in one punch

[merry ibex]

drain punch + shell bell iron hands would like a word

[grand kestrel]

full haul of today:
3 fridgibax
3 snorunt
3 cubcho
3 popplio
1 Pawmo
4 Zweilous
1 Gabite
1 Farigiraf
1 Scream Tail
1 Florges
For a total of 21 shinies, biggest haul in one day for me holy

[merry ibex]

nice

[fathom stump]

full haul of today:
one (1) fribigax 😎 👍

[wise stag]

i got 3 frigibax, 3 snoraunts and 2 cubchoos. Realized that I only got male snorunts tho

*4 male snorunts

[somber phoenix]

My updated haul for the day. I am exhausted lmaooo

[calm helm]

Shiny Haul from yesterday:
Unown (C)
2 Treecko
Ducklett
Rookidee
Slakoth

Zygarde continues to evade me, same with Pumpkaboo

[somber phoenix]

if any raiders are up later to grind some more ruin beasts let me know. i want the herba

[swift hinge]

Herba addict

[somber phoenix]

https://tenor.com/view/oceansjonas-bear-in-the-big-blue-house-sniffing-smelling-gif-9077831805310939164

[grand kestrel]

yes

I want some more

[somber phoenix]

hell yea

[swift hinge]

Just ping me when y'all are spinning up

[somber phoenix]

Will do chief!

[merry ibex]

can you ping me also maybe

[somber phoenix]

oh yea sure. i think mark also wanted to, maybe torchic too. maybe enough for 2 full groups

dont know if xavier is still into hunting rn

[ember parrot]

i will be playing ff14 but it seems like you guys have enough

[swift hinge]

Gotta play FF14

I mean after all, 15 years later you finally have speech bubbles

What a cool and critically acclaimed MMO!

[ember parrot]

patch drop day innit

[somber phoenix]

@merry ibex @swift hinge how are we looking timewise like quarter past the next hour. so like in 30 minutes

[merry ibex]

Im available yea

Just ping me when its time

[somber phoenix]

ait we would ball now @swift hinge join us when you can. guessing you are at work?

[swift hinge]

Indeed! I will go on lunch in just a bit

[somber phoenix]

alrighty

[grand kestrel]

posting this also here

[swift hinge]

Oh that's a lot of methods for a sparkling sandiwch

I was only familiar with the last one

The triple pepper methods

[ember parrot]

why are there so many different images for all the same method

[swift hinge]

Different ingredient methods it seems.

[grand kestrel]

different ways and ingredients

just for example if you have less of salty herbas

[swift hinge]

Maybe you don't have Salty h-

Yeah

[rose ridge]

I should Wondertrade a bunch of mons and see if I can join you guys again lol

[fathom stump]

I found a baby!

[ember parrot]

I still need a koraidon for my living dex if you wouldnt mind getting rid of one lol

[grand kestrel]

bieeeeen!

[rose ridge]

damn you think I can spare one?

God I really want to get back into Pokémon

I used to be really involved

[grand kestrel]

never to late to get back on the grind

[rose ridge]

Yeah fr. I used to shiny hunt so much it was unreal lmao

Also comp breeding, but I feel that's not really a thing anymore

[grand kestrel]

anything comp is very time consuming

I still follow a lot of meta and draft league content but don't have time myself to invest into it

[rose ridge]

I meant moreso that competitive breeding is not really a thing anymore because you just kinda change their nature and their IVs with items lol

And perhaps even abilities? I don't even know, I fell so out of the content

Still love my random Phantump Shiny that I got while wanting to make a competitive Trevenant :D

[grand kestrel]

oh yeah

these days that's a lot easier

idk about IV's how that's changed these days

[rose ridge]

Bottlecaps or smth

But yeah. My insane shiny luck persists throughout these years btw. I didn't even look for any and had a full team for my playthrough in PLA, but the odds there are also not that bad I feel

My first shiny was a Sneasel in a space-time rift haha

[fathom stump]

not a shiny related thing but

?¿?¿E?=¿·"=¿?")=?=")?=

who tf thought this was a good idea

[rose ridge]

lol

[merry ibex]

i should try and do a shiny only walktrough in violet

[rose ridge]

I wanted to start over in SV

Not that it matters much since apparently I don't have any max mons anyway

[merry ibex]

can always create a new profile

[rose ridge]

Don't like that + no online, right

I can just yeet it

[fathom stump]

i rly thought i did 1000 steps and didnt work

doing the pkmn center trick

i will try again but if it doesnt work i'd gladly accept a trade 🥺

[grand kestrel]

1000 steps is not a lot

[rose ridge]

Did you walk the steps within Let's Go mode and also level it up once after

[fathom stump]

yes

well im on the pkmn center ceiling and he is walking in circles

[rose ridge]

Oh, I thought you had to walk 1000 steps with it.

[grand kestrel]

you have to walk

[fathom stump]

I have to but this works

[rose ridge]

Just run a big straight

[grand kestrel]

'this work' he says when he questions why it 'doesn't work'

[fathom stump]

Also if you walk a bit the Pokémon just enters the pokeball again

This works bc everyone says it does?

[rose ridge]

idk, did it work?

[grand kestrel]

idk I never do it like that

I just pop it out in lesgo mode and let it clobber wild mons

[fathom stump]

We'll see in a bit, he's been walking for like half an hour now

https://tenor.com/view/ultra-sad-memes-complitation-gif-25942543

[grand kestrel]

oh dear

[fathom stump]

i'll wait for them to show up in a tera raid or in pogo

[grand kestrel]

just walk with it

don't stand still

[fathom stump]

brambleghast i do have one

and rabsa is wild just in the dlc area so i'll have to wait for a raid too

[grand kestrel]

man I turn the game on, and up shows a random shiny crabominable

[rose ridge]

just walk with it

[grand kestrel]

go touch some grass with it

[fathom stump]

i will touch them grasss

imma make a list with all the mon im missing

[ember parrot]

maybe lmao

i hope they're valid for HOME

[rose ridge]

Well they're legit

[ember parrot]

hmu any time whatever you wanna know/do

[ember parrot]

fair enough i guess lol

[rose ridge]

I need a push or two, can you do that?

[ember parrot]

im a great pusher

[ember parrot]

i just tend to be a bit overly cautious about the home stuff lol it would suck to get my account flagged

[fathom stump]

https://freenote.biz/7vlm744bff all my misses 👻

i will get to it today and get lots

[grand kestrel]

also here are my latest group pictures

[ember parrot]

i can go into area zero with you to spawn the iron mons

you can see how jank it is for yourself

[grand kestrel]

aren't you both voilet?

[ember parrot]

these are cuutee

OH true

i thought he was scarlet

well someone lock in for him then smh

[grand kestrel]

I can help with that

[fathom stump]

found gardevoir so one less to go! 💀

[fathom stump]

found so far: gardevoir, sand hippos, palafin, wigglytuff, coalossal, garchomp, cetitan, PAWMOT, magnezone, luxio, clodsire, maushold, tsareena, umbreon, iron valiant, grimmsnarl, blissey, oranguru, tyranitar, skrelp, dragalge, dedenne, muk, drifblim, electrode, happiny, petilil, surskit, vespiqueen, salazzle, frosmoth, weavile, abomasnow, Gothitelle, lucario, mareanie, zoroark, bounsweet, flabebe, deino, zweilous, hydreigon, staraptor, camerupt

[somber phoenix]

Yeaaaaa more shiny huntersssssse

[fathom stump]

btw that list is not shinies, is pkmn im finding to complete the dex 😂

for the shiny charm

[somber phoenix]

Ik

There was no way you would get all those without it in such a shorz time

[swift hinge]

If you need trade evos let me know I can help as well

[grand kestrel]

did you take a walk?

[fathom stump]

Babies

[fathom stump]

No I got it from a Tera raid

These two baby shinies I didn't look for them they just showed up while I was wandering

[somber phoenix]

hell yea

[ember parrot]

why hello there

phone jumpscare

this was like 15 encounters friend safari kinda crazy

[calm helm]

Train jumpscare

[grand kestrel]

adding this to the mix cause the previous lists don't really use a lot of bitter herbas. With this list you can mix and match all herbas besides a few exceptions

It seems the chien pao raid drops mostly salty and bitter, then sweet, low chance of sour and spicy

bit still quite good odds to farm for all of them

[somber phoenix]

sounds like we raiding again innit

[calm helm]

This is what I'm using, currently

[ember parrot]

oooh yeah this is the one i remember using

[grand kestrel]

🥺

[grand kestrel]

reminder: scoop up your shiny Wo Chien from TOMMOROW

[merry ibex]

Remind me again tomorrow

[somber phoenix]

Need more herbas.... herbs grind....

[rose ridge]

hi I want a shiny Wo Chien

[ember parrot]

mystery gift tomorrow!!!!

[rose ridge]

If I am even eligible

[grand kestrel]

did you beat at least 1?

I mean I´m not sure if that is neccesary in general

we´ll see tommorow...

[rose ridge]

I wasn't aware Wo-Chien was live, so no

I also didn't beat that Chien Pao we fought lol

[somber phoenix]

Its okay chien pao is live until next weekend sundays

The easiest way is to have a fire type and deemo on your team with his cracked torkoal

[grand kestrel]

he´s also the frailest of the 4 so prop the easiest to beat

[calm helm]

Afaik, it isn't necessary at all
Or well, I can't imagine it's necessary

[somber phoenix]

I dont remember how it was with zeraora back then in swsh. Since i participated i got it but idk otherwise

[calm helm]

I can't remember either, lmao

The wording entails that it's gonna be a Mystery Gift distro

[ember parrot]

With zeraora you had to participate im pretty sure, but I think from the wording of this event it gets distributed to everyone

I guess we'll find out tomorrow :D

[rose ridge]

I feel like a live sample

[ember parrot]

kinda

[calm helm]

Mystery Gift, so it doesn’t appear to matter

[calm helm]

Just got Small Pumpkaboo in Sword, hell yeah

(Shiny)

[calm helm]

https://tenor.com/gx5vDsghNCb.gif

Not gonna ping Irri at this hour, but all can claim it

[grand kestrel]

pro tip, if you have both games, you can get them also there

you can prop also reset your game to farm them

[rose ridge]

my baby...

This is my first one 😭

[ember parrot]

yayyyyy

[rose ridge]

I also have two other gifts wow

ok that really didn't take long

[grand kestrel]

looooool

[rose ridge]

Got another one 👍 Shiny Charizard

[rose ridge]

I caught a Frigibax :)

[grand kestrel]

[merry ibex]

wished I could nickname it but oh well

still happy to have ine

one

[calm helm]

If you’ve multiple accounts, same deal

[rose ridge]

They're sending them with evo items over Wondertrade 😭

[fathom stump]

Yes this happened to me last night a lot, shiny magmortar and some others that evolve via trade

Some guy sent me a deino so I finally got one!

[swift hinge]

MonForge.Fun

[calm helm]

And they’re all ads

[somber phoenix]

Holy shit pokemon does have adds now when wondertrading. Where the addblock at

[rose ridge]

hehe

I thought if I started a shiny journey again, I had to

[somber phoenix]

Wohoooo

[rose ridge]

Did it full odds because I have never done 5 or 6 star raids before

But I didn't mind

[grand kestrel]

that is a sick shiny

[swift hinge]

Really good shiny yeah

[grand kestrel]

I just boot up the game and there he was

I didn´t even know what his shiny was

oh wow each of his forms are different shinies

[somber phoenix]

Tried this one after the roaring moon one. Its better to hunt the outbreaks of the ones that are just in one color. Not just random

[somber phoenix]

I dont use sandwiches all the time. Just get the charm and you can do outbreaks etc without any sandwiches. Or the dlc and go to the cafeteria

[calm helm]

Admons might honestly die from Gen 10, assuming it’s Switch 2 exclusive

[rose ridge]

I don't have a charm 😭

[somber phoenix]

Then we will get you one

[ember parrot]

yeah charm helps so much

and is not super hard to get

[ember parrot]

i genuinely dont think admons will ever die sadly

[calm helm]

Probably not, there’ll be some way to crack the Switch 2 safely 😭

[grand kestrel]

we can also help with sharing sandwiches in group sessions

I loaded up a fat stack of herbas with the chien pao raids

[rose ridge]

I have this genned Charizard now I could take to Chien Pao raids

But I kinda don't wanna use it with randoms because I don't wanna advertise this shit

[grand kestrel]

they are everywhere dw

[somber phoenix]

Fair. Just use it with us ig. Then again i saw some posts that using them is bad etc and band worthy

[grand kestrel]

nnnnever mind

you can also play support tbf

be a healer or set up the sun with koraidon

like koraidon has been a very good asset for the raids

[somber phoenix]

Get a torkoal with drought and you will be the mvp for all of us

[grand kestrel]

Orichalcum Pulse also sets up the sun

[rose ridge]

Would need to know where to get these mons because nothing I encountered has been anywhere above 50 lol

[grand kestrel]

• gives Koraidon a boost

[ember parrot]

serebii.net

look up the mon you want

go from there

if you need to level just use your candies i guess

[rose ridge]

candies

[ember parrot]

uuuuuuhhh

4* raids should also drop plenty

i think

just find some you have good counters for

[grand kestrel]

I have 999 exp L candies

I can help if needed

now tommorow is the last day for Chien Pao raids

from monday it's Ting Lu

[somber phoenix]

Wasnt it 2 weeks of raids per mon

1 more week. You little fals informstion spreader

[grand kestrel]

what

oh yeah

for some reason it felt like the wo chien was only a week

[somber phoenix]

Nah we just started a week late

[grand kestrel]

OH

that's why I didn't remember

[calm helm]

Afaik, genned/admons aren’t ban worthy so long as they’re legal (legitimately possible, but cloned), because how would Timmy with his new Switch know that it’s genned

[ember parrot]

no the wo chien was shorter im pretty sure

[grand kestrel]

I guess yeah a week and a half only

[rose ridge]

Back then, I'm pretty sure, the GTS had like verification if you could even put it in or not. I would be surprised if Wondertrade doesn't also have it

Like, for example the Pokémon cannot have moves it usually wouldn't be able to know

[calm helm]

I know Scarlet and Violet stops illegal mons from being traded period (except Shiny Bloodmoon Ursaluna for some reason?), but afaik, the game doesn’t care so long as it’s technically legal

HOME does care, though. If it’s missing a flag called a “HOME Tracker”, then it’s not coming into HOME

[rose ridge]

Joining Random Tera Postings is so inconvenient

You never get in, and you also cannot refresh the page except when it's a full moon

I think I would be more fine with it if Tera Battles as a whole wouldn't be this unresponsive on top lol

[grand kestrel]

full moon?

you just wait a few minutes and then press X to refresh

also if it doesn't let you in just keep trying to enter the same one, you'll get in eventually

[rose ridge]

Once every blue moon is a phrase

[rose ridge]

wait a few minutes

Yeah, but why.

[grand kestrel]

oh xd

[rose ridge]

All of this doesn't make the menues any more responsive

[grand kestrel]

because gamefreak I guess

[rose ridge]

I honestly don't know how Tera Raids in general passed QA testing

[grand kestrel]

it's so bad

[rose ridge]

I love it especially when it goes

"Hydreigon "

ty game

[grand kestrel]

yeah and then no text lmao

[rose ridge]

I feel like Tera Raids desperately try to go away from the turn-based format, and then sync up anyway, which means you either get to sit there and do nothing, or you did your thing and suddenly have to wait a year or two because some kind of threshold was met in the previous round

[grand kestrel]

you make a move

and then have time to go for a coffee

[rose ridge]

Or the menu goes fast enough it feels like you were skipped(?)

[grand kestrel]

my favorite is when it does 5 moves and you still were not able to even select 1

[rose ridge]

I made the mistake of going into a fight with a mon and I wasn't quite familiar with the moveset so I checked the moves

I think I got interrupted by 3 things while I pressed Y

You think I will ever be able to play again

[grand kestrel]

voided

[somber phoenix]

Just one of the 100 things to happen during a terra raid.
Mine is the ui completely exploding and never coming back

[ember parrot]

ikr it sucks so bad

[fathom stump]

Whenever I get the raid I need I can't join 😭

[grand kestrel]

just keep clicking it

[ember parrot]

keep clicking it when it takes a whole minute for it to load the can't join message lets gooooo

[rose ridge]

Yeah... trying to click raids but I just can't make it in

[fathom stump]

Yeah it just says I can't join

I still need the car engine pokemommmm

[rose ridge]

Do you want mine

[fathom stump]

You play scarlet so we'll have to trade a lot 🥺

[rose ridge]

Not sure if we can even trade a lot considering I don't have shit

[fathom stump]

Skrelp I got him from pogo but many others I just don't have anywhere

I couldn't find the gd apple pokemon either

[rose ridge]

I love how my Koraidon is just

gone

Where did it go

[grand kestrel]

wh

[rose ridge]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[grand kestrel]

didn't you have a box full?

[rose ridge]

They probably implemented a check

I used my Koraidon in a Tera Raid and the Box full of Koraidons dissolved

[grand kestrel]

LOL

[rose ridge]

I now used it in the past few Tera Raids as well and

Where is it

Like okay, I get it, getting rid of dupes is fine

But where did my actual one go lol

Like 15 battles later

[ember parrot]

Did you catch the second one already

[rose ridge]

I don't know

I genuinely do not recall what I did in this game lmao

I am not even mad, but it's gone

This game sucks ass lmao

[grand kestrel]

you can find him in area zero

at the bottom

[somber phoenix]

Backside of the entrance to the finale

[somber phoenix]

Shiny of the today: Voltorb (Completed line caught)

[grand kestrel]

Shiny of the day Tentacool and Tentacruel :D

[swift hinge]

I just got these buckos myself

Peak shiny

I got a ✨ Toedscool as well

Top tier mon.

https://tenor.com/view/toedscool-pokemon-scarlet-violet-running-gif-27666827

Isn't there a mode where you can control Pokemon in this game...?

[calm helm]

Yeah, the Synchro Machine in the Blueberry Academy only

[marsh leaf]

The way Tentacruel is looking at you lol
It's like it wants to eat you

[grand kestrel]

[marsh leaf]

Anyway, nice catch y'all

[rose ridge]

Found him

[rose ridge]

One of my faaaves

huzzah

I hope they don't take this one from me too

[swift hinge]

All your hacked Koraidons thanos'd

You filthy cheater

[calm helm]

https://tenor.com/bsi10.gif

My mind jumped to this scene

[rose ridge]

No, also my legit one

I wasn't really mad they removed the dupes, it's easily detectable and I had no connection to them, I find it quite amusing

I just do not know

Why I used it for raids like 15 times and THEN it bleeped

But after a google search, apparently I was not alone with that

[somber phoenix]

wait so. you are unable to ride on it?

[rose ridge]

No, I have my riding Koraidon, but I have no actual "Pokémon" Koraidon

Except the one I caught today

[somber phoenix]

then those 2 are your legit ones. if you actually lost yoru riding one you could just delete your safe lol

[rose ridge]

those 2

Well

One.

The riding one isn't actually a "Pokémon" is it

I mean

Fighting-wise etc

[fathom stump]

i still dont have the fighter miraidon either then :0

just the riding one

[somber phoenix]

you can unequip your riding koraidon and use it for fighting. thats why i asked if you couldnt ride. cause yea. you can not ride on any other possible koraidon or miraidon ever i believe

[ember parrot]

oh yeah lmfaoooooo

iirc there should be a button in the party screen to convert it

[fathom stump]

i always thought i had used miraidon

but then i also thought i was thinking of pokerogue lmao

[ember parrot]

but dont do that if you have the second one

[fathom stump]

we should check out pokerogue again, maybe its been updated

[swift hinge]

There is a conversion button yes.

[grand kestrel]

true...

[grand kestrel]

Some more shots of catches today: Chikorita, Bayleef, Meganium, Sawsbuck (his kid Deerling I caught the other day)

oh and this guy wanted to be there as well

[ember parrot]

mike i love your pictures they're very cute

[grand kestrel]

I'm constantly discovering new ways to take pictures in this... quite limited mode

[marsh leaf]

Those pics are indeed pretty cute

[grand kestrel]

EGGIES

They play together now

[somber phoenix]

Ig switch 2 just unlocked easy mode for mike lmfao

[grand kestrel]

oh I can still spend hours not finding something dw

the blueberry food sometimes give better luck that sandwhiches some hunts

but it's been happening often now I just boot the game up and a shiny pops up within 10 mins which is wild

[fathom stump]

this is fake news

[swift hinge]

I found a shiny Tentacool, Tentacruel, Toedscool, Alolan Grimer, and Alolan Muk in one sandwich (30 minutes)

It took me THREE FULL sandwiches to find a SINGLE Shiny Galarian Slowpoke

[somber phoenix]

Yea that does happen doesnt it.
Voltorb did pop in like 10 minutes in with no bonus power while exeggecute didnt with a power 3 sandwich

[rose ridge]

I put all of my 3DS mons into Pokémon Home, lots of shinies from my past hunts 🫶

[grand kestrel]

My shinies of today: Mareep, Flaafy, Ampharos, Tadbulb, Bellibolt , Pawmi

and he also showed up

[calm helm]

(Not so) fun fact!
If I wanted to shiny hunt Deoxys in Emerald, I’d be shelling out €460 minimum in CEX: the cheapest GBA, DS and 2DS, Pokémon Emerald and Pearl (the cheapest of the Sinnoh games), and that’s before getting what’s needed for the 2DS (since I’d have to homebrew it to get PokéTransporter and Pokémon Bank)

An additional €17 for an SD card and a reader, since my laptop doesn’t have an SD card slot from what I can see

[grand kestrel]

is deoxys shiny locked in ORAS?

the answer is yes

[swift hinge]

Does Deoxys require a working clock

[calm helm]

Good question
That Pomeg glitch probably needs it

[grand kestrel]

Shiny Ducklett, Corphish, Crawdant, Geodude, Duskull, Snorunt ✨

and there was a shiny staraptor that final gambitted itself

[merry ibex]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonScarletViolet/s/C2a2AfRv0q

[somber phoenix]

ohhh. is that less then the first one?

[merry ibex]

no idea

[left raptor]

Yeah, Wo-Chien had 3.5 million at this point and 6 million by the end

[calm helm]

Less, but Chien-Pao hits harder

[grand kestrel]

It's also frailer though

plus it was a longer timeframe

[rose ridge]

From what I gather this is up to the 11th, while it runs until the 17th, which might explain the steep drop-off

[somber phoenix]

Shiny of the day: Farigiraf and two Mienfoo

[merry ibex]

i've gotten shellos (the blue one), magikarp and mareanie

[grand kestrel]

my would be minior exploded

[somber phoenix]

Addition: Glimmora, Garganacl

[grand kestrel]

Some of my new shinies from the last few days

Tommorow the Ting-Lu raids start

[merry ibex]

no clue what pokemon to use

[grand kestrel]

I'm using Arboliva

resists ground and has a good special attack which hits Ting-Lu's weaker side

even tho vessel of ruin will already give a SpAtk drop

[merry ibex]

if someone brings a pokemon with mold breaker thats no issue

[grand kestrel]

don't think mold breaker work against those abilities

[calm helm]

Azumarill for me, tbh

[somber phoenix]

Shiny of yesterday: 3 Fennekin and 1 random Makuhita. No torkoal or graveyard dog cause screw switch 1 ig

[grand kestrel]

it does run heavy slam...

[calm helm]

Hmm, change of plan then lmao

[somber phoenix]

What was it. Fire terra right? Might aswell run kyogre with drizzle

[grand kestrel]

no terra ground

Kyogre is ofc a good pick for this and the next one

it's been hitting quite hard so I'm also running reflect on my arboliva

[somber phoenix]

oh was it the reindeer looking thing. then yea i will look and see

[grand kestrel]

contrary leaf storm serperior is also doing crazy work

[somber phoenix]

Me who needs to even get a mon for it first

[somber phoenix]

Shiny collected since last time: 3 Chespin, 1 Drillbur, 2 Paldean Wooper

[calm helm]

Nothing new from my end, but completed a trade for Shiny Poipole and Type:Null (both were legitimate, but some RNG manipulation was used for them) in exchange for my Shiny Meltan line from GO

[grand kestrel]

The catches so far this week

[somber phoenix]

man when i get my switch 2 this shit is gonna be so easy

[grand kestrel]

the boosted ones were easy but the other ones cost me many sandwhiches (and then the outbreak ran out cause of midnight lol)

[somber phoenix]

ah that is unlucky i had that before

[grand kestrel]

and for some reason it's always the starters that were annoying to hunt

[somber phoenix]

cause they can only spawn on certain places usually

which makes it a pain if its a cliff or small area

[somber phoenix]

Add Luvdisc to this list. Anyway i just noticed. I can just use ogerpon for this raid event no? still strong mon

[grand kestrel]

yep that´s a decent mon for this

[swift hinge]

👀

[somber phoenix]

Chien Pao is now up for grabs everyone

[grand kestrel]

[calm helm]

And unsurprisingly, the moveset is the same as the one we fought

[rose ridge]

hiii!

Oh another one

[swift hinge]

https://tenor.com/view/smallant-thumbs-up-gif-4870778074607588964

[grand kestrel]

https://tenor.com/view/clodsire-e-p-wooper-pokémon-wallpaper-gif-3554147944202710021

[ember parrot]

yayyyy

[merry ibex]

clodsire is so goofy

i love him

[rose ridge]

his fat forehead

[swift hinge]

d colon

[somber phoenix]

Took me like half a day but today I got 2 Tarountula shiny. peak shiny design

scratch that. as i wrote this a THIRD one spawned...

[rose ridge]

I got me a handful o' woopers

[grand kestrel]

https://tenor.com/view/wooper-love-paldean-pokemon-pokémon-gif-14626503995534036081

[calm helm]

:D

[calm helm]

Well, I’ve caved and decided to do a ShinyLocke of Violet (though with slightly altered rules to the usual Nuzlocke, like allowing repeat encounters in the same area, but absolutely sticking with Duplicate Clause for the entire evolutionary line)

[merry ibex]

nice

gluck

[grand kestrel]

@here hallo, I want to pitch an idea here for anniversary and see how many people are up for it.

I want to pick an evening (prop thursday) where we come together and see how many shinies we can get in S&V with sandwhiches.

With all the herba farming I´ve been doing, I would provide all ingredients myself and make groups for everyone that wants to join (and just reset and make the sandwich again for the next group).

I would have loved to say hunt for every type, but it´ll most likely be only 10 of them (7pm to 12 am I was thinking).

[merry ibex]

i m down

[somber phoenix]

Aha im down

dont need to think of a time frame for monday then

[calm helm]

7-12 stream time?

[grand kestrel]

yeah in the evening

[calm helm]

One final question before I confirm, is that today, or a Thursday?

[grand kestrel]

thursday anniversary week I would pick

as an event for anniversary

[calm helm]

Oh anni week, whoops

[somber phoenix]

well yea mike duh. i thought about monday cause it is anni week but thursday might be a bit better. (i have an exam on friday so lul)

[calm helm]

I am off work that day, and would need an excuse to get off my backside to hunt for the last couple mons I need in SV

[grand kestrel]

it´s also mostly open in the schedule when I´m checking the calender

[calm helm]

Should hypothetically work for me on Thurs, but don’t fully count me in

[grand kestrel]

It´s kinda just, join in when you have the time

[somber phoenix]

like always

[rose ridge]

Reminder that you can safely ping @-everyone in forums, @-here only pings people online at that very moment

(and everywhere it's not safe for you to do so, you don't have the rights to :^))

-# this does not apply to Guardians or GFs lol

[grand kestrel]

oh right

[grand kestrel]

@everyone for those interesed, a shiny event for anniversary!

srry for the double ping for those that already saw it

[somber phoenix]

Heh pulled a me

[fathom stump]

Baby

[somber phoenix]

Peam.

[merry ibex]

been 5 minutes of the blue berry academy shiny meal and i already have 2 shinies

being shinx and noibat

[grand kestrel]

I did some rockruff hunting and evolved them

and here I thought you could get dusk form by just evolving it during the dusk hours

nope it has to have own tempo which is a seperate things from all it's other abilities

guess I'll just hunt for the dusk one itself another time

[somber phoenix]

That was a thing in sun and moon i think aswell

[grand kestrel]

ultra sun and moon is where it debuted

I remember cause it was a pre order bonus lol

I just forgot it was a thing

[somber phoenix]

usum, schmusum gen 7. thats why you should always do research. Or safe in general after the last catch

[grand kestrel]

well the funny thing is at dusk it just doesn't evolve in this game

[somber phoenix]

Cause time doesnt work like it did in past games

Obviously they were unable to do such a thing

[merry ibex]

chi yu today i think

yep

[grand kestrel]

a lot easier than the previous ones

pour water on it and it dies

[merry ibex]

time to rock out my azumarill

[grand kestrel]

yeah low hp semi defense stat

belly drum azumarill goes brrr

granted it needs the proper teammates to setup

[merry ibex]

what moves does chi yu have

[grand kestrel]

heat wave, ruination, snarl

uh

not seen any else so far

oh dark pulse, flamethrower

[somber phoenix]

Lets farm some tonight?

[grand kestrel]

si

[somber phoenix]

Peam

[calm helm]

Ruination is scripted, so Heat Wave, Snarl, Dark Pulse and Flamethrower

[grand kestrel]

it can still use ruination later during the battle

[merry ibex]

i've never seen it happen

[grand kestrel]

I have

multiple times

[calm helm]

It always opens with Ruination, but whether it’ll happen a second time depends on how hard you rock its shit

[somber phoenix]

Eh. Easy setup kyogre with drizzle and then 1shot that fishy

[grand kestrel]

Kyogre definitly staple mon for this

[somber phoenix]

Next week i was originally planning to do some more shiny hunting, we should raid there. Kyogre raids... until everyone has the pink whale

[grand kestrel]

if it's early next week sure

[deft loom]

Where are my Sword and Shield Raids?

There are so many legendaries left

[somber phoenix]

yea i meant those

(lets just do all week evening raids until all of us have 1 shiny legendary atleast lul)

[grand kestrel]

I can only do three days next week cause I leave for a long trip :(

[somber phoenix]

bros travelling again

[somber phoenix]

https://discord.gg/fgG36jqq?event=1410908941008769045
Fellas dont forget to join us for shiny hunting.
It says sandwiching but we will not gatekeep you from hunting in another game alongside us ofcourse. So get those shinieeeees

[grand kestrel]

Now I know everyone and their mother will probably be playing silksong tommorow

BUT

tommorow evening I will sit in stage providing FREE herbas in scarlet and voilet for everyone that wishes to join in on the hunt (ofc you can choose other games to hunt, whichever you prefer). I'll be setting there well into the night so feel free to just hop in or out.

I hope to see you there and if not happy gaming

The hunt continues...

[merry ibex]

cant wait

[somber phoenix]

i have bought easy mode i will be having a time

[rose ridge]

holy shit

I have raid but maybe there's a chance

[grand kestrel]

good tip, try and prepare your outbreaks to the max before the hunt starts tonight for full odds from the word go 🗣️

[somber phoenix]

updated the list. any shinies you catch today count towards the list.

[merry ibex]

https://tenor.com/view/magikarp-shiny-pokemon-legends-arceus-gif-24996256

[grand kestrel]

Thank you all who joined tonight for the great hunt!

[grand kestrel]

Get your shiny Ting Lu lads!!

[somber phoenix]

Hunting soon. just gotta make some food or something im starving

[rose ridge]

Picked up my Mythical Cereal Bowl™

[somber phoenix]

Yippieee

[rose ridge]

Surprise Trades taking up my time lmao

(good for the dex it's alright)

[somber phoenix]

lol

[rose ridge]

I was catching a Sunflora for my dex when some big ol blue eyes stared at me while I was doing it

Got a Shiny Charcadet :3

[somber phoenix]

@grand kestrel @ember parrot @left raptor @deft loom any takers for tonights legendary raidings?

[grand kestrel]

I am available tho will be a tad late

[deft loom]

I can do around 10pm I think

[ember parrot]

I am also not home rn

Also not sure if I'm feeling raids tonight sorry

[left raptor]

I might be a bit late, but I could do a few raids

[somber phoenix]

ok then we do some later perhaps

[left raptor]

Ok, I can join now. I'll be there in a minute

[somber phoenix]

Shiny Jellicent get

So turns out. When you have a legendary pokemon or ultra beast in your first slot and talk to Peonya in the raid den. She will ALWAYS give you the route to that legendary in your first party slot.
That is why I had Rayquaze everytime i talked to her.
So we can always recover a Route.

[grand kestrel]

for tonight I will prop not make it

[somber phoenix]

me neither. parents are coming home late

[rose ridge]

holy shit

[fathom stump]

https://x.com/SerebiiNet/status/1966372663259242503?t=Prece1yVXlcqz6RTrTCaWw&s=19

Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet)

Serebii Update: Shiny Miraidon and Shiny Koraidon will be distributed at Gamestop in the US and EB Games in Canada and Australia from September 26th 2025

https://t.co/NWlAdn5F0o

X · Sep 12, 2025, 5:25 AM

[ember parrot]

WHAT

hello????

i would like these too

[somber phoenix]

I just saw these too and thought the same fucking thing

As soon as this gets announced for europe my ass will get violet for the shiny miraidon

[ember parrot]

LOL i was thinking the same

but these surely will come here too

wouldn't surprise me if it is like sword and shield where they'll give you the opposite box art shiny

[wise stag]

It is

Violet gets Koraidon and Scarlet gets Miraidon

[rose ridge]

Shiny Koraidon kinda hot

[somber phoenix]

Oh wait you are right. shit then i definetly need to buy violet

[calm helm]

I need both of the lizards

[merry ibex]

same

[somber phoenix]

Me on my way to get all gen 4 and 5s shiny pokemon because you can still get them via a fanserver connection legally

[ember parrot]

also since chi yu is now out dont forget to get your shiny treasures of ruin everynyan!!!!!!!!

[somber phoenix]

Oh trueee

[rose ridge]

hello baby

[ember parrot]

she's so gorgeous

[somber phoenix]

we have reached all 4 of them now. what do we do now

[swift hinge]

I might be missing some

I better check before they vanish

[calm helm]

Wait for Shiny Korai/Mirai

[somber phoenix]

mark found out that a store in france will also have codes so i will assume that the other european countries also have to go through that

cause why not just do it via the internet

[calm helm]

Yeah, but how many will ask you to show the console and HOME Menu to them?

Not that Ireland will get shit anyway

[ember parrot]

what game store in the netherlands is gonna get it bro wtf lmao

if we go without any codes i might actually end it all

[merry ibex]

i dont even think sweden will get it

[somber phoenix]

Toys r Us my only hope

the only store in the last 10 years to get codes here in germany

[calm helm]

American friendos will have to come in clutch for me

[somber phoenix]

the biggest scam is that you get 1 code. and it depends on your console. i just want both. i hate tpc sometimes

[calm helm]

Your version, not console

[somber phoenix]

eh yea thats what i meant oop

but yea could have been mystery gift instead but ig stores want people to go in, not buy shit, and leave again

[marsh leaf]

Didn't Toys'R'Us file for bankruptcy?

[somber phoenix]

in germany that just means they wont pay their shit back. (They still exist around here so i would assume so atleast)

[fathom stump]

https://x.com/AlexCardinal21/status/1970165382272180462?t=-qroj5OiqUUNezTGXm_rkw&s=19

Alex Cardinal (@AlexCardinal21)

GameStop started distributing the codes or you can go and ask for it. Code won’t work until Friday.

@PokeEventNews @PLDHnet @makio_jroses @soulsilverart @HiddenPowerPod @pory_leeks @palkiaorigin @Light_88_

*Not my pic/post*

X · Sep 22, 2025, 4:36 PM

[somber phoenix]

yea france is the only confirmed country in europe rn. cause the store they get it from is owned gamestop or some shit

i really hope they have it here somewhere somehow. i just want 1 code rather then nothing

[fathom stump]

https://x.com/pokexperto/status/1971284228622192835

PokéXperto (@pokexperto)

GAME ha confirmado en España el evento de Koraidon Shiny 💫 y Miraidon Shiny 💫 en Pokémon Escarlata y Púrpura:

📆 26 de septiembre a 15 de octubre
🏬 Tiendas GAME (España)
➡️ Debes llevar tu Nintendo Switch con Pokémon Escarlata o Púrpura para recibir un código por cada juego

X · Sep 25, 2025, 6:42 PM

Spain is getting the shiny legendaries at GAME

[somber phoenix]

Apparently you can only get the shiny ruin pokemon until tuesday! If you havent already, go and claim them asap

[calm bobcat]

Shiny hunting rn got an old event got 2 riolu with sandwich been trying to get a munchlax and then gonna get three magby and three elekid I hope

[calm bobcat]

Found 2 shiny elekids which is good

[grand kestrel]

Last day peeps get your shiny ruin mons!!!

[drifting monolith]

oh

[drifting monolith]

boot up game, connect to internet and mystery gift?

[somber phoenix]

si

[drifting monolith]

ty for reminder, cuz I forgot about it lmao

[somber phoenix]

in other news. I just made this work. I am now proud owner of a Gen 5 shiny Giratina

[swift hinge]

Straight up panicked yesterday and quickly closed Silksong to get these shinies

Turns out I already got them like over a week ago

Coooool

I should go check GameStop

[somber phoenix]

You should check if they allow you to get a couple more codes for your old pals in the shiny hunter channel (Please help us we are on dry land here)

[swift hinge]

When does the GS promo end...?

[somber phoenix]

15th october

[swift hinge]

I'll call around

[somber phoenix]

much appreciated

[drifting monolith]

I'll ask at the GAME store I usually frequent

[ember parrot]

little late for that innit

(pls pls pls ask if you can get some for us pls pls pls pls pls)

[drifting monolith]

got them!

I kinda wanna hop back on the paradox shiny hunt for the other version on coop

[grand kestrel]

[somber phoenix]

same

[drifting monolith]

i still have over 100 of each Herba

[grand kestrel]

same

[drifting monolith]

Ok, so the GAME I usually visit doesnt check which game you own, and it gives 2 codes per switch (if you lend a friend the switch and ask for the codes, you technically can get more codes)

Point is, I got 1 spare code for now, I'll ask my parents to get some more for the region locked people

[ember parrot]

🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺 🥺

[merry ibex]

👉 👈

[drifting monolith]

Look at this beauty :D

[grand kestrel]

[drifting monolith]

Who was country locked out of the shiny box mons again?

[somber phoenix]

Me and torchic. I think mike aswell

Any country that isnt france or spain i think

In europe

[fathom stump]

i'll try to go to several stores

[somber phoenix]

Bless your hearts guys. We are living on the edge with this event man

[drifting monolith]

I know another GAME store that is 40mins away from me, I could go there for some extra codes

Btw, code is E506 7JWB S2FK BCCH @here

[somber phoenix]

Im not home so someone take this

Like torchic or mike. First the ones thst cant get any natively

[fathom stump]

i dont know if my stores will give me codes for both games

[rose ridge]

Whaaaat

I also want a code

D:

[fathom stump]

but i'll try to get more than one koraidon

[rose ridge]

(I will not yoink it)

[merry ibex]

is for me?

[fathom stump]

probably tomorrow i can go to a couple, or saturday

[somber phoenix]

I think we might need like 12 codes

[drifting monolith]

If youre fast

[rose ridge]

Markeles can you reserve one for me 🙏

[grand kestrel]

for which game is this?

[drifting monolith]

The one you own

[somber phoenix]

Any

Itll decide on your game version

[grand kestrel]

ah

[drifting monolith]

If you play scarlet, its a miraidon
If yoy play violet, its a koraidon

[somber phoenix]

Actually. Everyone let us try to get 1 each atleast. Then we can idk decide who needs it more. Like the shiny dex completionists

[ember parrot]

im gonna yoink it

-# yoink

[merry ibex]

no

i did it

[ember parrot]

wtfff

(congratssss)

[grand kestrel]

it´s fine

[ember parrot]

i'm pretty sure they're still expanding to other countries as well

[grand kestrel]

fact remains these are very limited

[ember parrot]

they announced for italy like 2 days ago i think?

[drifting monolith]

Tomorrow im going on a shopping with my mom, I'll ask her to get some more codes

[grand kestrel]

I still hope Europe gets some more places

[rose ridge]

sexy

[ember parrot]

hotttt

[grand kestrel]

hot

[drifting monolith]

Love it

[merry ibex]

thanks xavier

[drifting monolith]

I think there were scalpers selling codes on amazon or smth for crazy moolah

[grand kestrel]

of course there are

[drifting monolith]

[fathom stump]

no never

(yes)

[somber phoenix]

Yea 80 euros on ebay for a code. Also a looooot of fakes going around aswell

[grand kestrel]

shame that gamemania (Benelux game store) went bankrupt, maybe they also could have aquired some codes

[somber phoenix]

Once germany gets announced ill ride to any stores i can aswell just in case it happens. Since the event only has 2 weeks left lmao

Brooooo. German pokemon site of Bisafans COLLECTED hundreds of stores so far, and asked them if they were to get codes. Most said no some said maybe. What dedication damn

[ember parrot]

game mania used to host all of these yeah

very sad

[grand kestrel]

yeah cause they used to bring these codes to the autumn conventions we have each year

[calm bobcat]

i wish i could get the koraidon and miraidon

[somber phoenix]

shouldnt it be atleast possible for you to go to a store?

[ember parrot]

https://x.com/SerebiiNet/status/1974124423121940528

Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet)

Serebii Update: Another Pokémon Scarlet & Violet SHiny Koraidon & Miraidon Distribution location has been confirmed.

Intertoys stores in The Netherlands will distribute the code until October 15th 2025

https://t.co/NWlAdn5F0o

X · Oct 3, 2025, 2:48 PM

YAYYYYYYYYYYYY

i will try to see if i can snag duplicates

[grand kestrel]

bruh

well that's good at least

[somber phoenix]

T-12 days until its over

[wise stag]

maybe in 2 months or so,they'll announce something for my country...

[rose ridge]

SHiny

[somber phoenix]

Gamestop restocked the codes...

[fathom stump]

Sisisisisi

[somber phoenix]

well another one got it atleast

[ember parrot]

they did the same fucking thing as in the USA!!!!!!!!!

i'm gonna fucking kill myself

-# i went to 2 stores and they were both all out

[grand kestrel]

NOOOOO

what a clusterfuck

[somber phoenix]

gonna end it all. nothing for germany yet. and i dont think there will

like its said to be here. but no german knows where. We got switzerland stores who gave them out. but not like other 1000 stores germany wide

[fathom stump]

https://x.com/SerebiiNet/status/1975579070604976313

Serebii.net (@SerebiiNet)

Serebii Update: Pokémon Scarlet & Violet's Shiny Koraidon & Miraidon distribution has been announced for Germany. Get it at Smyths Toy Supertore until October 15th 2025

https://t.co/NWlAdn5F0o

X · Oct 7, 2025, 3:08 PM

[somber phoenix]

i dont have a smyths toy

welp this is where i quit shiny hunting ig

never gonna complete my shiny dex

[wise stag]

It says Switzerland's distributor is Softridge. There's one single Softridge in the entire country:)

[somber phoenix]

Okay thats.. thats so mean. They better have like a morbillion codes for people.

[grand kestrel]

where is belgium ;-;

[calm helm]

Apparently legit (yeah, it’s Twitter unfortunately)

Will report results as soon as I get them

[ember parrot]

Did you end up getting something out of it?

[calm helm]

No :(

[grand kestrel]

eyo they are lining up for me

[somber phoenix]

and thats why belbium wont get the serial codes. you are stealing all the shiny luck

[grand kestrel]

my country doesn´t even have codes!

[grand kestrel]

so nice it happened twice

[somber phoenix]

exactly. that is why the country wont get them in the first placwe

[somber phoenix]

I am so so so happy

Shoutou to the goat Glatze for checking for me

[grand kestrel]

My blessings go to @drifting monolith for getting this beauty for me

[ember parrot]

Would anyone still be able to look out for 1 code for me? 👉👈

[cosmic stump]

Got a homie

I hope that you can do those big raid battles with multiplayer people at some point i would be hella down to farm those

[somber phoenix]

Saaame.
I also got 3 shinies yesterday after everyone left

[calm helm]

There's already AFK shiny hunting methods for this game, lmao

[calm helm]

What appears to be the "rules" for spawns in ZA (no spoilers within the block of text)

I've had Shiny Fletchling spawn at that purple splot, backing up OP's research further

If needed, I can ask OP for the respawn maps, but that's basically it

[left raptor]

Just found my first ZA shiny!

[merry ibex]

Does the shinies make a sound if they appear? Also nice zekky

[somber phoenix]

Ye. Very visible aswell

[deft loom]

I almost missed my first one

sound was hearable > me not knowing whats going on

|-> shiny on a lantern spotted

[calm helm]

Shinies don't despawn unless scared off, knocked out or more than 10 are spawned in the world at a time

https://x.com/Sibuna_Switch/status/1980306261213393163
Shiny mechanics

Anubis (@Sibuna_Switch)

This mechanic is resistant to player KO, flying, sleeping, rebooting, etc.

Final update:
There is only room to store 10 uncaught shiny Pokémon.

If your entire shiny storage is filled, you'll still encounter shiny Pokémon, but any you do not catch WILL erase older Pokémon!

X · Oct 20, 2025, 4:12 PM

[somber phoenix]

biggest problem : shiny pidgeys and fletchlings around the map. half of them run before you can even get close so watch out.

[merry ibex]

why is there a limit on how many shinies you can store?

[somber phoenix]

appreciate that they even store shiny pokemon now

they could have just not afterall like in every other game. plus 10 is more then enough

[calm helm]

10 is plenty tbf, and you can leave them be for another occasion too (though as Anubis said a few times in that thread, it isn't recommended to do that)

[rose ridge]

Andi heard a shiny at the very beginning of the game and couldn't find it, it never despawned and it was just the Vivillion on the rooftop lol

Got it muuuch later than when he first heard it

[merry ibex]

what does the jingle sound like

[grand kestrel]

burulee

you´ll know it when you hear it

[calm helm]

Same as PLA, simply put

If you know that jingle, then you'll recognise it here

[somber phoenix]

its the sound of a heartattack nosedive from a bird in the cold harsh winter lands

[rose ridge]

You will know it.

I am a bit miffed the shiny tutorial didn't even play the sound lol

But you hear a quiet version of it if you send it out I guess

[flat nova]

It also plays a quiet ambient sparking/shimmering sound :D

[merry ibex]

Was trying to find a gible

[calm helm]

I’m surprised it didn’t, but I’m sure it would if you dipped from the area

[flat nova]

firbst shiny! :D

Incredibly annoying bc the sound played as I was being chased by 4 alphas, and he was OUTSIDE the zone

I preferably want to hunt shinies in this game without the use of cheese strats

[drifting monolith]

First shiny in ZA: ||the scripted side quest mareep. Still waiting for the funni sound||

[rose ridge]

You 😭

[drifting monolith]

That's a weird ass Metapod

Congrats!

[rose ridge]

The weird thing is I heard the Shiny sound twice after another

So idk if it had troubles loading or if there's another one lmao

I will come back later again to this place to check

[flat nova]

It can play it twice

Once when it initially spawns, again once it enters your camera view/proximity

Oh my god

I just got 2 shinies in the span of 15 seconds 😭

They were right next to each other 😭

Ironically, both are not the one I was looking for, but I'll very much take it, I like these ones

[rose ridge]

I mean moreso I didn't move and it just played twice. Didn't see another shiny so I will bet it just acted out lmao

[flat nova]

Valid

I saw a friend fall into an area a shiny was and it played the sound twice for the same guy

[undone ledge]

I still have yet to encounter a shiny aside from the unreachable pidgey

[grand kestrel]

ZA Shiny Charm get

[somber phoenix]

wtf

[grand kestrel]

golden tip: if you find a shiny, save your game and if it would run away, just reset and it'll be there again for you to try and catch

[flat nova]

I booted up the game, walked into a wild zone to kill an alpha and then I-

there's just another one

[undone ledge]

FUCKING

FINALLY

this pidgey has been teasing me ALL game

[merry ibex]

🎉

[flat nova]

rabbit, but pink :D

this was the first buneary I've seen in the game, too 😭

[undone ledge]

Keke what IS your luck

[flat nova]

high, as always :D

Never when I want it to be though

proof that it's the first buneary I've caught

also yeah the sound played before the video started, it does play twice

[merry ibex]

gotta share that luck with us kendo

[flat nova]

you can pry it from my cold dead shiny hands :D

heeheehee

[undone ledge]

I was just resetting a wild zone for an alpha gogoat and-

lol

[flat nova]

I entered the wild zone to show a friend Alpha Patrat could spawn here and I-

[undone ledge]

Bruhhhhhhh

Imagine when you get the shiny charm all your shiny spawns just drop to 0

😭

[flat nova]

that would be kinda funny

this also means I've gotten 6 shinies in my first day of playing the game

which is additionally very funny

and most have them have been from this zone, by accident 😭

[undone ledge]

😭

In wild zone 3 you can just constantly go in and out of the tower there to very easily reset all the spawns there

[flat nova]

yeah, I heard

I kinda don't wanna use cheese/afk strats when I do start hunting, but it's good info to have

[undone ledge]

I also never really do anything like that lol

[undone ledge]

This one was just by pure accident LMAO

I needed an alpha gogoat for a side quest

[flat nova]

I feel like warp-resetting is fine if you're actually going in and looking around otherwise I feel like it's kinda boring 😭

[undone ledge]

It’s just extremely funny how it’s a shiny alpha LMAO

just completely not what i was there for

[calm helm]

Yeah, Zone 3 is nutty

All those from one night

Some are even Shalpha

[somber phoenix]

wtf

[grand kestrel]

holy

[flat nova]

yeah, I could never 😭

takes all the fun and/or suffering out of it

[merry ibex]

https://www.reddit.com/r/PokemonZA/s/gCyr2jtOEk

[somber phoenix]

that is for the controller you can put settings on

[grand kestrel]

that´s so funny

[merry ibex]

only 460 battles until im done with that stupid research task...

[grand kestrel]

the battles are the hard part

[merry ibex]

yeah i know

my highest score of battles in one night is 52

[undone ledge]

fuck this game 😭

im shiny hunting the pokemon in my team

I have a froslass 🫠

[grand kestrel]

time to hunt another one :)

[swift hinge]

Wait

Isn't that good...?

That's a male Snorunt and you have a Frosslass

[merry ibex]

Pretty sure he wants shiny froslass

[swift hinge]

Oh. Confusing wording, my bad

[merry ibex]

First shiny with shiny charm

[rose ridge]

https://www.tumblr.com/egberts/799478063399387136?source=share

if i fits i'm soup

where the hell do you think you're going?!

-# #pokemon #need somebody to help me give this guy to my girlfriend cuz we only have one copy of the game lol #we need a trade middle man

▶ Play video

Tumblr · Nov 6, 2025, 3:08 PM

[grand kestrel]

sniped

[somber phoenix]

We should hunt again some time

[grand kestrel]

Found the first big shiny boi in the ZA DLC :D

[grand kestrel]

The next one!

[somber phoenix]

i see its easy mode

[grand kestrel]

the gind to get to them is a bigger hassle than the actual hunt

[somber phoenix]

eh. tbh shinies arent worth anything anymore. you get them super fast these days

[calm helm]

Shiny Alphas are easy mode with the DLC, it's still an RNG-fest though

[grand kestrel]

even outside of shiny boosts, the soft resetting is different because of the speed of the switch 2

[merry ibex]

wish I had that speed 😔

[grand kestrel]

😭 😭 😭 😭

it´s been years since I lost my original one...

even tho this one will be stuck in ZA lol

[somber phoenix]

why would it be stuck

[grand kestrel]

can't be imported into other games

except home and maybe champions I guess

[somber phoenix]

what

why

[grand kestrel]

nobody knows but that's how it was specified

in a sense now it's stuck in ZA, we don't know if they'll be transferable to later gen games but I sorta doubt it

but they definitly can't be transfered to SV that's for sure

[somber phoenix]

oh well previous ones yeah thats a thing

would be dumb if not. first time that would be the case since gen 2 to 3

[grand kestrel]

wait so a pikachu from gen 9 cannot go to gen 8?

I thought that was possible but maybe I missremember

but it is still dumb that ZA can't at least go to SV

[somber phoenix]

idk how they change stats or abilities. tho then again you can always just readjust things so they are just lazy to have a system in place for that

[grand kestrel]

they did it for PLA so I'm deffo confused why it's not for ZA

[ember parrot]

yeah i think this has how it's always been

once you port a game to a higher gen you can't move it back

[drifting monolith]

huh, weird

i managed to port some galar mons that I originally caught in Scarlet into Sword for the dex entry and a free ribbon (the galar champ one)

[calm helm]

Anything from Let’s Go can’t move back upon going to another game
Anything moved to ZA can’t go back after the move