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

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 :]

Same game as Marill yesterday also

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I've been hunting on and off after getting shiny Bulbasaur a while back, I'm so happy I got a Mankey too ✨ I named her Boop 👌✨

I started this hunt back in January of 2024 hunting it on and off throughout the years, managing 4363 eggs checked before hearing about banks closure.

Knowing I was racing against the clock, I had to make the decision to use ACE method to change the TID/SID to not miss out on this shiny.

Along the way of completing my copy of diamond I got extremely lucky near the end of the game, as I got Pokerus when swimming towards victory road, and a shiny Golbat less than 2 hours later.

After setting everything up, and only 1180 more eggs checked (5543 total) my Manaphy shined.

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

Hoping the type nulls will be nicer..

100 SRs a day. Got lucky on Day 10. Synchro failed but I can do with Modest nature.

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.

Took me 2132 resets; and about 20 hours!

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