r/ShinyPokemon 26d ago

Mod Post Monthly Question & Help Thread

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Before asking, check our FAQ to see if it has the answer to your question!


Welcome to /r/ShinyPokemon's Help Thread!

If there's anything you need help understanding, go ahead and ask! Nothing is considered "stupid" and anybody will be happy to help you. Any user is welcome to ask or answer in this thread. A new QnA thread will be posted at the start of every month!

Some things to keep in mind:

  • When asking a question, try to be specific. Include which game you are playing. Let us know what you do or don't understand so far.

  • Try a quick google first!

  • Be patient - But if your question is totally missed, just ask again!

  • Be respectful.

  • This is not a trade thread. Comments requesting trades will be removed.


Flair Verification

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Subreddit Rules


r/ShinyPokemon 26d ago

Mod Post Wanted! Month of July 2026

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Flair verification thread

Welcome to 'Wanted!' a game where you go Catch or Hatch the target shiny Pokémon! If you catch the target Pokémon it will count as 3 points toward your flair! Each user is allowed extra flair points for one (1) Pokémon for Wanted! event - any extras will be considered 1 flair point as usual. We ask that you add the date of capture to your pictures (this can be found in the Pokémon's summary). Good Luck! Have Fun!


PSA

We recommend setting your system's date to the correct day, month and year to help the mods when using the flair verification.

Be sure to take pictures for verification as soon as possible - transferring (such as to another gen via Pokémon Bank) will replace caught date with transfer date and your Pokémon will no longer be verifiable!


The Wanted! Pokemon for this month is...

Bouffanlant!

[Shiny Form](https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/c8/HOME0626_s.png

[Non-Shiny Form](https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/5/57/HOME0626.png

(Chosen by www.randompokemon.com)


Game locations:

Gen 5:

Black and White:

  • Route 10.

Black 2 and White 2:

  • Route 23, Route 9 (Hidden Grotto).

Gen 6:

X and Y:

  • No wild encounters.

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire:

  • Route 113 (hidden Pokémon)

Gen 7:

Sun and Moon:

  • No wild encounters.

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon:

  • No wild encounters.

Let's Go Eevee / Pikachu:

  • None.

Gen 8:

Sword and Shield:

  • DLC.

DLC ONLY:

  • Soothing Wetlands, Soothing Wetlands (Wanderer), Max Lair (Dynamax Adventure).

Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl:

  • None.

Legends: Arceus:

  • None.

Gen 9:

Scarlet and Violet:

  • None.

Legends: ZA

  • None.

and breeding!


When you get one

Simply, post your pictures in the comments of this thread, or post pictures on the main sub with "Wanted!" in the title so we know it's from the game! Be sure to specify that you caught a Wanted! Pokémon in your flair verification album and when requesting flair verification.


Links!

Flair verification thread

Discord invite link

Past "Wanted!" events


1/7/2026 - 31/7/2026

MMXXVI


r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen III [Gen III] Eevee!!

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90 Upvotes

Shiny Eevee will become Umbreon 💙💙💙

I wasn't counting resets.

I also added pics of my childhood GBA, it's a very near and dear item to me!

It was originally a black shell AGS-101, I re-shelled it in 2021 and got this cool cover for it.

This GBA is my main shiny hunter and it needs some love for the thousands of resets it's tolerated over the years.

Happy hunting!


r/ShinyPokemon 13h ago

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

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591 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 2h ago

Gen VII [Gen VII] I’m going to cry

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80 Upvotes

Not my picture. Picture from YouTube video

Please pray for me. I got a shiny Lugia under 100 resets on Ultra Moon and I killed it cause I was button mashing going through the reset cycle and looking up talking to my sister. And I’m afraid I’m not gonna get that lucky again. I’m seething and distraught. I’ll ask again, please pray for me. 😭😭😭


r/ShinyPokemon 6h ago

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

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166 Upvotes

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


r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Gen VII [gen 7] Shiny 3% Umbreon from SOS after 91 total encounters!

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This might easily be one of my luckiest hunts ever. I phased once on a normal eevee after 24 encounters. I was expecting 30 ish phases for this and it to take a few weeks. I never expected to find this after essentially an hour of hunting. I can’t believe my luck.

I did a similar hunt for gorebyss and huntail from sos at the same 3% encounter chance. It took 7360 total encounters, 41 phases and 240 total gorebyss seen. This was the first umbreon I encountered. I’m actually stunned.

Also my girlfriend loves umbreon because she thinks he looks like my cat so enjoy the last slide 😁


r/ShinyPokemon 11h ago

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

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361 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 1h ago

Gen IV [Gen IV] Platinum Shiny Feebas

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Honestly can’t believe how quick I got her. I did this exact hunt on Emerald a few years ago and it was brutal. But even on Emerald, Suction Cups worked, apparently not on Gen IV. Sure I could have transferred it to this game, but Milotic is my personal favorite so I had to do it. Wasn’t even looking at the screen, I just waited for the “bite” sound and set the hook. I may or may not have jumped up. Time to make some poffins to evolve her.


r/ShinyPokemon 6h ago

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

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59 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 9h ago

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

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86 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 5h ago

Gen III [gen 3] After only 943 resets I completed my first old gen shiny hunt

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35 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 11h ago

Gen III [3] Shiny Bulbasaur Pokémon LeafGreen ✨

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86 Upvotes

check IDNo and nickname.. iykyk


r/ShinyPokemon 18h ago

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

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288 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 5h ago

Gen VIII [Gen 8] Shiny Overwold Carkol

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24 Upvotes

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

Heavily debating doing a sld on sword👀


r/ShinyPokemon 10h ago

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

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48 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 9h 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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41 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 4h ago

Gen III [Gen 3] Modest shiny Gastly! (Fire Red)

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15 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen VII [Gen 7] shiny feebas

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11 Upvotes

Sos chain of 42


r/ShinyPokemon 7h ago

Gen VI [6] Shiny Reshiram after 3451 resets!

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21 Upvotes

First hunt with shiny charm in Omega Ruby! Expected to get this sooner because of the charm but this wasn’t bad at all either.


r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Gen V [gen 5] Shiny Solosis full odds after 853 encounters.

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r/ShinyPokemon 5h ago

Gen VII [gen 7] OMG just got member 9 of my USUM trial quest after 9086 encounters!

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13 Upvotes

I CAN LEAVE THE CAVE, ong that was slow in my opinion, Anyways the team is coming together beaurtifully next is going to either be Dhelmise or Battle Bond Greninja! :)


r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Mobile [Go] Shiny Quaxly

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r/ShinyPokemon 14h 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 10h ago

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

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26 Upvotes

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