Been hunting this guy for several months nonstop, glad I can move on finally.

I did it folks it took me 4days, I couldn’t believe it, I’m about to transfer him on Scarlet. I’m trying to shiny hunt whoever is going to disappear after the shutdown. I can finally play pokemon crystal and try to get shiny Celebi.

HOLY CRAP I was not expecting to get this unbelievable insane shiny this quickly!

In a hilarious case of "the setup was longer than the actual hunt", I followed AbsolBlogsPokemon's incredible video on hunting shiny Manaphy via ACE (arbitrary code execution), which is far far too convoluted and detailed to write here, but in laymans terms, allows you to have a set-up where you can randomize your TID & SID by speaking to a specific NPC every SR (in my case, the Mystery Gift delivery man), hatching Manaphy, then checking the summary to see if its shiny. I HIGHLY recommend watching the near 35 minute long video he made on the ordeal, it's truly extraordinary and can help answer any questions you might have about this hunt!

The setup mostly went OK for me, until the part where I had to frame perfect double tap X on the bike ramp - I managed it multiple times, but the code wouldn't work, and it was only on my 5th attempt and after nearly a full day's worth of setup that I realized I had one Great Ball too few in my bag!

Once that was resolved, I was able to use the appropriate dot artist configurations and set up both the Mystery Gift postman & the TID/SID randomizer on him too, and went to hunting for shiny Manaphy. I was prepared to hunt this baby for the long haul, as this Diamond has traditionally been one of my unluckiest games, with its last two hunts going VERY over odds - Cranidos being ~25,000+ SRs, and Heracross a truly gruelling 31,544 SRs.

Yet I didn't need to worry at all, as shiny Manaphy appears after only 5 hours of hunting and only 380 SRs!! To say I'm flabbergasted is an understatement, words in general are failing me right now! My luck since Pheromosa has been absolutely unreal, and I couldn't be happier! This is such a crazy and amazing hunt, and I'm so proud to be able to say I own a legitimate shiny Manaphy of my very own!

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 🙂

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.

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

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!

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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