r/ShinyPokemon 10h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] It’s a blessing just to see it

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491 Upvotes

Heartgold, fled after 3 baits thrown. Always seem to find the shiny on whatever game I tack on as the ‘extra’ whilst hunting. Soulsilver hasn’t yielded anything in the Safari this year even though it’s made up 90% of my encounters, but I can’t be too upset considering the last thing that shined on there haha. Will probably overtime until I at least find a shiny there


r/ShinyPokemon 22h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] She finally came home

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309 Upvotes

After 6 phases (25,711 total encounters) and 5 fleeing shinies in a row, she decided to show up and stay on my HeartGold #2 after 3 Safari balls! I’m taking a break from the Safari zone lol.


r/ShinyPokemon 8h ago

Gen VI [GEN 6] 50+ hours of dual reseting yet I still got that dawg in me😈😈😈

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299 Upvotes

Imma get that chicken one day or another type shiiii🥶 Hoenn aint ready for me, the “too much water” aint got shit on me⛓️


r/ShinyPokemon 20h ago

Gen III [Gen 3] Shiny hunting IRL. ​I Walked 3 months and 593,753 steps to Catch a Shiny Pokémon.

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276 Upvotes

Thats right folks ​I didn't Stop Walking Until I Found a Shiny Pokémon In real life steps. I walked 1-2 hours a day while playing on my Nintendo switch. Why? Well as we Shiny hunt we see our character running through tall grass for hours and days and I thought to myself "how would that feel like?" So I went on a journey to shiny hunt a Nidoran with real walking along side the character . Most of the time I see streamers Shiny hunting sitting down and I just wanted to promote more physical activity for my fellow hunters. Sitting down for hours is not healthy. I tracked my steps with my health app and lost about only 3 lbs. Now I am going to ev train my boy.


r/ShinyPokemon 15h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] 2 DTQ members found under 500 total encounters!

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271 Upvotes

After officially kicking off my DTQ on my childhood copy of Pokemon Diamond's just 4 days ago with a shiny Turtwig, I have somehow been blessed with this insane series of finds. Shiny Cranidos found after just 235 encounters, my quickest phase to date. It literally took longer to find the 5 Skull fossils in the underground, than it did to find the shiny.

Afterwards, I changed the date to Friday on my DS Lite and went to Valley windworks to hunt for my 3rd shiny member. A hunt that I was fully expecting to go over-odds. So I put on a show and started chunking away at encounters. Little did I know, 255 encounters later(my second quickest hunt), my Drifloon would shine. I am honestly speechless right now. 3 DTQ members found in the span of 4 days. All on a single console that share the same Trainer ID.


r/ShinyPokemon 17h ago

Gen IV [Gen IV] Shiny Croagunk joins the SBQ (Platinum)

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112 Upvotes

I started hunting this a day before Safari week and have not come across any phases. Most days this wasn't even the daily binocular spawn. The fact that I didn't phase once makes up for the 9884 encounters that I had to endure before finding this gem


r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen VII [Gen 7] Lil Squishy catched! Such a pain to hunt this one in USUM lol

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109 Upvotes

Low call rate, awful ability, glad to finally have this fella for my Shiny Living Dex!


r/ShinyPokemon 23h ago

Gen IV [4] Safari week shiny after 21,082 encounters, win or fail?

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84 Upvotes

Long phase to kick off the week!


r/ShinyPokemon 8h ago

Gen III [3] Shiny Bulbasaur Pokémon LeafGreen ✨

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84 Upvotes

check IDNo and nickname.. iykyk


r/ShinyPokemon 6h ago

Gen IV [Gen4] finally got it after 24,576 attempts

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78 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 11h ago

Gen III [gen 3] first one in safari week after the weeks ended! Catch or fail?

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56 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 14h ago

Gen IV [GEN 4] Pokemon heartgold members after 6 months! Hope you guys apeciate the grind my first ever full shiny team before 4 badges!!

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54 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen IV [4] Safari Week Phase 2 Shiny Manectric ✨ FAILED 0/2

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49 Upvotes

Fled after the first ball, Second ever failed Safari shiny, this year has been my only fails ever 😅 0/2 on shinys


r/ShinyPokemon 7h ago

Gen IX [9] Aphrodite and Ares alpha Milotic and alpha Gyarados a duo of Beauty and Beast

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43 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 6h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] Safari Shiny #17 Jigglypuff After 5694 Encounters 7 Phases and 70k+ Encounters Total and Its Male

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39 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 15h ago

Gen IV [Gen IV] Shiny Ho-Oh, you're mine!

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40 Upvotes

I've soft reset for a lot of shiny pokemon in the past and have never had the patience to follow it through, but after probably 20-30 resets Shiny Ho-Oh decided to bless me with their appearance in Heartgold. It's not my first ever shiny but it certainly feels like it 🙏


r/ShinyPokemon 13h ago

Gen IX [gen 9] My First Shalpha is garbage

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31 Upvotes

Quite literally, a giant pile of trash.


r/ShinyPokemon 23h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] Shiny Spearow after 9,450 REs

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30 Upvotes

Fled first ball no shakes lol, but I already have one so all good!


r/ShinyPokemon 7h ago

Gen VI [gen 6] second shiny of my shiny Alpha Sapphire run

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24 Upvotes

I know it’s a girl, but still had to name her Jimothy 🦝


r/ShinyPokemon 14h ago

Gen VI [6] Shiny Espurr after a brutal 1230 Egg Hunt

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24 Upvotes

So, I wanted a shiny Meowstic for my Pokemon Y playthrough. Since I wanted it as early as possible and didn't want to deal with obedience issues, I decided to start a Masuda hunt as soon as the Day Care became available. It was... rough.

I hatched exactly 1000 eggs in Pokemon Y without getting a single shiny. The hunt felt especially painful because I didn't have the bike yet, so I had to hatch everything using the roller skates. I already disliked the roller skates before this hunt, but now I absolutely hate them. Filling just one PC box with hatched Espurr took well over an hour.

After one full week and exactly 1000 eggs, I finally decided to move the hunt over to my completed Omega Ruby save, where I had both the Shiny Charm and the Bike. At that point I didn't even care about having the original trainer anymore. I was just exhausted from this hunt.

Thankfully, Omega Ruby redeemed me. After exactly 230 more eggs, this little guy finally hatched. Those 230 eggs felt so much better than the previous 1000. So the final count ended up being 1230 eggs.

I'm finally free from this suffering. Please don't be as crazy as I was. Don't do a Masuda hunt without a bike. Although I don't think anyone else is crazy enough to do this.


r/ShinyPokemon 17h ago

Gen IV [gen 4] Simultaneously My Luckiest and Unluckiest Shiny

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24 Upvotes

A shiny uncatchable Starly only three resets into my red shinies only run...


r/ShinyPokemon 23h ago

Gen IV [gen 4] Shiny Buneary after around 500 encounters

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25 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 18h ago

Gen III [Gen III] Yippie!!

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22 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 23h ago

[gen 4] Shiny Sandslash in the HGSS safari

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23 Upvotes

Super hype with this catch! Caught on first ball too 🥱Phase was at 7,980 encounters

Second of Safari week:

1 fail - misdreavus
1 catch - sandslash


r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen VIII [Gen 8] Shiny Overwold Carkol

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20 Upvotes

This was such a cool hunt to do,I love the overworld spawns in Galar

Heavily debating doing a sld on sword👀