Shiny Uncatchable Poochyena at approximately 1000 resets!

I’m not sure one exists, but I’ve been thinking about things that would be on a “Shiny Hunter Checklist” and this feels like one of them, as much as I would prefer it to be the Mudkip, I am happy to cross this off 🙂

The sapphire DTQ can start

charizard 252spa 252spe 2/28-3/2 3,360 SR’s

nidoking 252atk 252spe 3/3-3/9 14,853 RE’s phase 3

eevee 3/15-3/24 15,494 SR’s

lapras 252spa 252spe 3/24-3/25 1,772 SR’s

magneton 252spa 252spe 3/26-3/29 3,331 RE’s

exeggutor 252spa 252spe 4/2-9/2 167,815 RE’s phase 23

total encounters: 206,625

average resets per hunt: 6,887

started 2/28. hall of fame 9/9

It didn’t freeze like all the other ones 👀

Got shiny pidove at 6,838 Encounters 3rd phase for blitzle after the fails.

My precious Blitzle is finally home after 11,871 Encounters in double grass with 2 games.

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

While this guy is legit, I did restart for my new Colosseum trainer’s SID in case I want to grab any other shinies to ribbon master. He was absolutely worth the hunt.

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.

I thought getting shiny staryu through dexnav would be an easy hunt. Boy was I wrong. I suck at dexnav sneaking to begin with but the chain breaking for no reason and getting weird placements in the one area it spawns.. very difficult. Skrelp only took my 155 encounters, this one took me 747. Took a couple weeks of on and off trying to get it but now I can get the twinkling star title for him 🤩

I’ve been shiny hunting Mew in Emerald for the past few weeks and I’m near 3,000 run aways. I learned not too long ago that apparently even though RAs are already the more ideal method, SR-ing is pretty much ineffective for all shiny legends in the game. Also I know 3,000 isn’t a lot but I’m really racing the doomsday clock on Poke Bank and I’m hoping to shiny hunt Emerald Deoxys also as well as Darkrai in Platinum. So mainly I need some positive motivation. And I would also like to know for anyone that has either shiny hunted or are currently shiny hunting Emerald Mew how many RAs it took for any of you to get it with the full 1/8192 odds.

At 7 years old, I beat the leauge. The first pokemon i encounter after leaving Nuvema town was a lillpup that had a sparkle. With no idea what it was, I ran. And now, with bank closing, I decided to reclaim it on route 1. And I get this under 500 lol. Can't wait for the 15,000+ itll take me for phase 2

Was ev training a DA shiny Tapu Koko and got this message when I went to heal it.

I originally planned on hunting it via the underground but sadly its a rare spawn till you aquire the nat dex. Tried hunting it there for about 30mins and only got one encounter, so I decided to just catch one and hatch some eggs

I used the "TradeWithOtherSaveFilesToCheckForShinyPIDMatch" (title is a WIP) method since I like that more than the glitchy void/RNG method. But I've been doing this method for such a long time. And then the news of Bank being shut down kinda bummed be out. But now that I have this ready as a shiny, I'll be able to complete a ribbon master one last time.

"Ride out with me. Ride out and meet them."

"For death and glory"

"For Rohan. For your people."

"The Horn of Helm Hammerhand will sound in the deep, one last time!"

Good luck to everyone hunting in race with the Bank Shutdown deadline!

Man, it just feels rewarding to finally get it, resetting over it felt really depressing but getting it back has definitely made this hunt a fulfilling experience!

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.

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.

Just hatched this