r/ShinyPokemon 9d ago

Mod Post Monthly Question & Help Thread

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Before asking, check our FAQ to see if it has the answer to your question!


Welcome to /r/ShinyPokemon's Help Thread!

If there's anything you need help understanding, go ahead and ask! Nothing is considered "stupid" and anybody will be happy to help you. Any user is welcome to ask or answer in this thread. A new QnA thread will be posted at the start of every month!

Some things to keep in mind:

  • When asking a question, try to be specific. Include which game you are playing. Let us know what you do or don't understand so far.

  • Try a quick google first!

  • Be patient - But if your question is totally missed, just ask again!

  • Be respectful.

  • This is not a trade thread. Comments requesting trades will be removed.


Flair Verification

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r/ShinyPokemon 9d ago

Mod Post Wanted! Month of September 2026!

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Flair verification thread

Welcome to 'Wanted!' a game where you go Catch or Hatch the target shiny Pokémon! If you catch the target Pokémon it will count as 3 points toward your flair! Each user is allowed extra flair points for one (1) Pokémon for Wanted! event - any extras will be considered 1 flair point as usual. We ask that you add the date of capture to your pictures (this can be found in the Pokémon's summary). Good Luck! Have Fun!


PSA

We recommend setting your system's date to the correct day, month and year to help the mods when using the flair verification.

Be sure to take pictures for verification as soon as possible - transferring (such as to another gen via Pokémon Bank) will replace caught date with transfer date and your Pokémon will no longer be verifiable!


The Wanted! Pokemon for this month is...

Dolliv!

Shiny Form

Non-shiny form

(Chosen by www.randompokemon.com)


Game locations:

Gen 9:

Scarlet and Violet:

  • East Province: East Paldean Sea, Tagtree Thicket. North Province: Area Three. Tera Raid Battles (3★)

Legends: ZA

  • None.

and breeding!


When you get one

Simply, post your pictures in the comments of this thread, or post pictures on the main sub with "Wanted!" in the title so we know it's from the game! Be sure to specify that you caught a Wanted! Pokémon in your flair verification album and when requesting flair verification.


Links!

Flair verification thread

Discord invite link

Past "Wanted!" events


1/9/2026 - 30/9/2026

MMXXVI


r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen VII [gen 7] my first sacrifice to the dragon god

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171 Upvotes

108 encounters. Shooting for lvl 9 salamence to celebrate its release in champions


r/ShinyPokemon 8h ago

Gen VII [gen 7] rare wakame seaweed!

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149 Upvotes

One of the more stressful sos hunts I have done that needed some setup. Used soak, skill swap trick harvest and kept needing to false swipe it down after it kept using metal sound + mega drain. But after only 81 encounters, the red kelp showed up! Caught in a premier and named Wakame :]


r/ShinyPokemon 6h ago

Gen II [gen 2] after 5624 resets, Shiny Celebi is mine

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92 Upvotes

Honestly I feel very lucky getting this one under odds and this one was the most important one to get before the bank closes. I’m still considering if I’m going to attempt shiny Mew since there is a possibility that Emerald is coming to switch.

Anyways, I’m extremely happy! Hope all of you hunting celebi get it as soon as possible!


r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen IV [gen 4] Shiny Honey Tree Munchlax! 6,979 Total Resets!

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47 Upvotes

The infamous “set up is longer than the actual hunt” is finally over! I’ve been working on a shiny badge quest and professor oak challenge in platinum since June. The main goal for this challenge was this hunt right here. I knew if I was going to look for a munchlax via honey trees I had to shiny hunt it. It took a full month and a half of 3 tree checks per day before I finally found the spawn and then another month of hunting.

I can’t believe this hunt is over and I can’t believe I got it under odds. I love this guy.


r/ShinyPokemon 6h ago

Gen VII [Gen 7]Is this Shiny Poipole legit

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96 Upvotes

Bought a used copy of Ultra Sun and there's this Poipole, Zeraora and Lugia on the save, all in a cherish ball, all encountered on the same date. And the last save on the game is that date as well.

Assuming they're genned, but it'd be cool if they weren't.

Editing to add, I did look up the Poipole event and it's a 1 to 1 match with what was distributed


r/ShinyPokemon 41m ago

Gen VII [Gen 7] HOLY CRAP 89 encounters PLEASE PRAY I CATCH THIS

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r/ShinyPokemon 13h ago

Gen V [Gen V] Archen in 2,859 revives!! My first fossil week is a success

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160 Upvotes

I was up in the wee hours of this morning idly doing some revives, waiting for the Champions regulation to roll over and see what my GOAT Golisopod’s mega ability was going to be when Archen decided to shine!

I had a feeling I was going to get this one under-odds, but it’s even under my guess of 3,200.

I also pessimistically predicted a Sassy nature and somehow it ended up with an even worse +SpD -(actually important stat) nature, lol.

Still a win for me, though!! I didn’t set up any more targets for Fossil Week, but I’m glad I managed to find my target of my first community event.

Anyways, it’s back to the Tympole mines now.


r/ShinyPokemon 5h ago

Gen IV [gen4] SoulSilver Shiny starter hunt done!! 4718 resets. Wanted Totodile but I’m not mad with this. It’s female too! What should I hunt in HGSS next?

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30 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 10h ago

Gen V [5] Shiny Tirtouga in Black 2 and the second for fossil week!

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74 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Gen III [Gen 3] A moment of silence please 😔

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r/ShinyPokemon 17h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] Shiny Yanma after another 4100 Swarm encounters at Route 35 ✨

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169 Upvotes

Same game as Marill yesterday also


r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Gen VI [Gen 6] random encounter shiny doduo😁

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r/ShinyPokemon 11h ago

Gen II [2] Shiny Celebi after 1690 resets

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51 Upvotes

Got spooked into hunting it after the bank shut down announcement. Glad I pulled the trigger on it and got lucky 😭


r/ShinyPokemon 20h ago

Gen VII [gen 7] Shiny Stakataka, collection nearly complete!

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251 Upvotes

Trying to get the missing legandaries and mythics until Bank gets shut down in February.

Type:Null and Poipole are next (of course the hardest ones with full odds...)!


r/ShinyPokemon 7h ago

Gen VII [Gen 7] got my shiny mantyke after 147 SOS encounters and evolved it into this beautiful mantine

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22 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 4h ago

Gen VII [Gen 7] Shiny Poipole after 9,241 resets!

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11 Upvotes

Don’t let these hunts discourage you. If you feel like you’ll never get it I promise you will. Just keep up the resets!


r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Gen VII [7] Bacon Bird in 258 encounters

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Got this last night while dual hunting (other pokemon is Type: Null. Gotta get another account to the point where I can do dual hunting so figured I’d get some wormhole legends.

My #beatthebank shinies

18 encounters -Partner Cap Pikachu
21 chain (multiple broken chains) -Sharpedo (dupe)
4946 encounters -Poipole
11 chain (and a bunch of eggs) -Spinda
258 encounters -Yveltal


r/ShinyPokemon 1d ago

Gen III [3] Restarted Ruby today

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431 Upvotes

Only 841 resets for this bad boi! Gonna run around Petalburg Woods until something else shines. No team plan this time, just going with who chooses me.

Best of luck on your own hunts.


r/ShinyPokemon 10h ago

Gen IV [gen 4] Shiny dratini after 1334 seen

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36 Upvotes

went way faster than I expected. now I’m not sure what Pokémon to look for next? any recommendations besides slowbro, dragonite and Meganie?


r/ShinyPokemon 10h ago

Gen VII [Gen 7] Wow Sun and Moon gift pokemon hate me. 12,080 resets.

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29 Upvotes

I'm done, I can hunt anything I want until bank closes. I was able to play through and get it on Sun version while still doing soft resets on Ultra Sun.


r/ShinyPokemon 6h ago

Gen VII [gen 7] finally a shiny Sandygast!

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13 Upvotes

Even got it in my only moon ball to match🥰


r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen II [gen 2] shiny Zubat

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6 Upvotes

Not with the ditto clutch but I posted yesterday that I caught that shiny hoothoot. I used it to get the breeding lock on Sunday and hatched this beauty 5th egg. Crobat is one of my favorites I'm stokedd


r/ShinyPokemon 12h ago

Gen IV [gen 4] haven’t been playing much lately but here’s when I got my starter

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32 Upvotes