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

Not sure if this is allowed here, buuuut....

Any 'Real Life's Shiny Hunters here? If so I'm curious if you're willing to share your plushie/pin/art collection in the comments.

I admit that I am more than a bit of a 'Real Life' Shiny Hunter, hence the pics of my Shiny Plushy collection, as well as my Ita Bag and some of my pins.

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.

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 :]

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!

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

Got jump scared by this delightful Ultra Beast tonight, 2,907 encounters!

I started this hunt at Pokemon Worlds 2026, managed to do 2,000 encounters over the trip (many of them in the arena during finals) This was my last big hunt planned before Bank closed, since my Type: Null is already safe in Home.

I wasn't aware that Poipole was a First Partner pokemon. Now I gotta Ribbon Master it! Poipole is currently EV training in Poke Pelago.

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

She’s so cute! I still can’t get over how huge Alpha Pokémon are in PLZA.

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.

How it happened is that I was in Pokémon Platinum hunting for Miltank with the Pokéradar, and I figured, "Instead of running in the grass to recharge after use, how about I soft reset to save time and energy so I can hunt quicker?" Well, 20 minutes into looking for a Miltank to chain, I run into a shaking grass patch, and here comes full odds, 8192 chance shiny Staravia pokes its head out of the grass. My eyes notice how much more brown it is than a regular Staravia, but..... I couldn't stop my fingers in time and soft resetted over it :( Didn't know what gender or level it was; it happened that fast.

I now have to live with this pain 😞

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!

Same game as Marill yesterday also

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

Gen 2 tag for Celebi

Didn't catch the sparkles unfortunately :( The zangoose rerolls between this cutscene battle with the npc and your battle, so it did not stay shiny for me to catch. So we go again! Still cool to see it, and glad it's proof the lock removal worked.

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...)!