monday edition
>Sparkling power level 2 donut >Found nothing for three days My game is broken
>>58930231Honestly something weird with my game too, shiny 2 alpha 2 and been resetting this bug portal for 2 days, always get a shiny pinsir with like 10 resets and then nothing else even though theres 4 scythers and heracross spawning in. This shouldnt be statistically possible i expect some dataminer to say on Twitter that the game is actually bugged.
>No donuts or anything>Found several shinies within 30 minutesMy game is fine
Still trying to get a Grookey. About 1000 eggs on SV, I hope it doesn't take 2000+ like Oshawott
How many resets did yours take?If you're not sure, just guess based on average hours per day, number of days.(S1 was around 55 seconds per reset under ideal conditions, S2 is 45 seconds)
>>58930419
>>589304196000-8000
>>58930424We're in the same boat then.Miserable hunt.
Up
>>58930409>500 moreI will never get a shiny Grookey...
I finally got Cobalion, and now the 5 legendary shinies have been hunted. I'll post a pic later
Now i wait for the Blazikenite and i think i'll be done with this game until i get a Switch 2
>>58932098grats bro
>>58930419Why not sandwich hunt it?
>>58932300show me how you sandwich hunt arceus, anon
>>58932305Sorry I replied to the wrong post. >>58931944
>>58930231Are you going up to a horde of Pokemon and running away then going back and repeating? If not, you’re using Sparkling Power Level 2 wrong.
I just want a female shiny Glaceon. I don’t care if she is not XS I just want one. What ball should I use if I find her?
>>58932934Beast
>>58930419You can get a free one on Discord bot which takes you 3 mins.
>>58932934Dive
>>58932951Meaningless.
>>58932951Meaninfgul
>>58932951It's Nintendo's fault for allowing this and nothing is happening in the players game, so it's not hacking
Okay motherfucker, you have given me 3 shiny Sandlashes now, 2 within the last hour.Make Zapdos have slightly darker beak and feet so I can be done.
>>58932951I admittedly have used these a few times but not for the Pokemon, rather just to get free items like Apricorn Balls and Gold Bottle Caps.
>>58932951good for you, bro
bump
>>58931944>500 more>still no shinyI give up
This took me an hour of resetting the same Hyperspace Zone with a Sparkling Power Normal Lv. 3 and Alpha Power Lv. 2 Donut (I wanted a male specifically), but I’m glad I stuck it out for one of my fav Megas.
>>58934807>gender + alpha autismI know that feeling. Congrats anon.
i found her while looking for an XS shuppetcaught her in a luxury ball and haven't thought of a name yet
>>58930231>>58930268I'm almost 100% sure there's a bug that makes either the donuts or the fast travel / teleport spawning shiny pokemon in hyperspaces stop working (or both at the same time)I have hunted every single pokemon that can mega evolve as shiny alpha and I have almost 25 full boxes of other shinies so this is from personal experience.One of the many instances It happened, I remember this one because it was the last: I was hunting shiny alpha eevees, managed to get a hyperspace where I could teleport out and in and respawn a group of 6 eevees, and I had a shiny normal lvl 2, alpha power lvl 3 donut. My method was turn on the game, teleport until I got a shiny alpha, see it if was female, then reset if it wasn't, catch if it was, wait for the respawn and continue. I always got a shiny alpha (or more, and regular shinies) in the group consistently after 15 minutes of spamming A. After catching 4 shiny female alphas, it basically stopped working. I spent one hour doing the exact same thing I was doing before, without spawning a single shiny. Tried again the next day for a couple of hours, no shinies. It seemed statistically impossible.I tried everything, fast traveling, physically moving out and despawning the group, KOing the whole group and waiting their respawn multiple times, setting up the save in various places, I have no idea what triggers it but I definitely think there's some sort of bug
>>58935092Thanks! I rolled 2 Alpha females before this one and thought “Why did they have to name it Drampaaa?”
>alpha 2 donut>get shiny beldum pretty easily>meanwhile alpha 2 + shiny 2 donut>day 3 of hunting shiny mudkipMaybe I should just try for a different portal layout. This sewer one sucks.
>>58935239I had a similar experience rolling 3 fucking female shiny Furfrou while looking more a shiny male. This game has a sick sense of humor.
>>58935247there's a sewer that you spawns you in the middle and the fast travel respawns 4-5 groups of mons at the same time, it's honestly the best hyperspace in the game, every other sewer layout sucks
anyone want to evolve some shinies of your own that need to traded hit me up, I need to evolve a feebas and a porygon
>>5893537120 mins or so
>>58935371Ready when you are
>>58935392nice, join me at this post's number
>>58935398I'll leave and give the other item to evolve porygon 2, joining you at the same number in a sec if you wait
>>58935404Sure
>>58935405thanks so much anon
>>58935408Thanks to you too
>go to sleep with macro on at wild zone 20>wake up to shiny alpha Scolipede and Ariados>"cool">catch them, train them, box them>leave the macro on again >AGAIN wake up to ANOTHER shiny alpha Scolipede and Ariados duo Huh
1,143 eggsno shiny
Do some spawners in hyperspace need to be "activated"? Sometimes I'll be doing the fast travel method and a spawn group that's just out of loading will not spawn. But if I walk up to it, get them to load in, and begin to fast travel again, they will now load in.
>>58935456also my pro controller drifts now rip 2019-2026
>>58935464What you're describing is like the old method to hunt beldum in the lysandre labs before the dlc, you needed to activate their spawn before starting the fast travel, so it makes sense it would work the same way, it's very inconsistent in hyperspace though
whats the best way to collect eggs in violet? i saw people saying to check the basket every 5 minutes but sometimes it only takes 3 minutes to get 10 eggs
>decide to shiny hunt something from the Baxcalibur line>this hyperspace layout>dogshit everything its shuffledGoing back to SV is looking appealing right about now.
>>58935587I hatched the 3 shiny starters and the method I used was save game -> get egg power -> picnic with ditto + starter-> check eggs every minute or so for 15 minutes (usually ending up with a full box of eggs, sometimes more, sometimes less-> run around and hatch those eggs until they're all hatched, reset the game if no shinyAs far as I know the basket maxes out at 10 eggs, so as long as you check the basket before reaching that amount you're fine, the amount of eggs you get per minute is random and egg power increases the chances for more
>>58935603why reset? egg power 2 can be infinitely bought
>>58935603How long does the box take to max out with egg 3 though (got an arseload of herba, not arsed "wasting" it on egg 3). I usually check every 5 mins, get about 2 and a half-ish boxes (sometimes almost a full third box, others anything between 3 and 10 into a new box).
>>58935587Check every 4 minutes
>>58935605because I don't want to spend time releasing 30+ pokemon in a game that doesn't have mass release, the method I used is the fastest eggs per hour>>58935608it's random, it can take 2 minutes, it can take 5
>>58935616you can release 60 at a time with home
>>589354561,195 no shiny
>>58935623And you can delete the whole box of failure in one easy reset.
Can someone help me evolving my shalpha Haunter? I can give you a non alpha for the help.
>>58935642what game?
Man this thread is incomprehensible to me now. I stopped playing ZA right after getting the mega bracelet and haven't been here in months.
>>58935649Sorry, it's in ZA. Forgot to specify.
>>58935651>I don't play the games and I don't understand what's going ontypical /vp/ poster
>>58935654using post number >>58935642 as the link code?
>>58935654I can help you anon, no need to trade me a shiny after, join me at this post's number
>>58935662nvm, go with this anon >>58935660
Where's /wfg/?
>>58935671dead. i remember hosting raids on wfg back in 2020
>>58935660Thank you so much, anon!>>58935662The other anon helped me out, but I really appreciate your help too!
>>58935671dead, there's no breeding in legends za and for most people shinies that don't have your OT are worthless, so there's not much worth trading
>>58935673>>58935675youd think wfg would be popping off since the only way to battle is battle royale which are basically multis and wfg used to fw multis heavily
>>58935587when I was trying to get my shiny sprigatito, I was checking every 1-2 minutes with egg power 2
>>58935671It's rough buddy.Before spending most of my time here, I spent time there. Things are a lot different from the friend safari days when that place was popping.
>>58935729i was promised a wfg revival when za came outhopefully gen 10 revives it
120 Zapdos captures, no orange feet yet.
Can Galarian zapdos be shiny?
>>58936565Nope.They gave them out for an end-of-life tournament during Sword and Shield.All locked shinies are only available in Pokemon GO these days, very gay.
>shiny hunting galarian Mr mime in za>have a zone I can fly reset>first mr mime is a female>"well, whatever. It's a 50/50 split, so I'll get one eventually.">five female mr mime and not a single male in the like twenty minutes of calories I had, fly resetting so it took more like two hours overallWhat the fuck, why? I even got a shiny capsikid and gogoat, but couldn't get a single male MR mime.
>>58936599desire sensor is a bitch
>>58936565sure in GO!
>>58936599May as well make a Sparkling Power Lv. 3 Donut. You’ll probably be pissed when you finally find that shiny only for it to be female. At least you can reset for a male using the Lv. 3 Donut.
How I be lookin at niggas who unironically say the word “Shalpha”
>>58937031same but I look at you as well for writing like a retard
shalpha autism is weird when alphas aren't even competitively viable due to their size making them easier to hit
Please Frigibax just be shiny alpha male I'm tired of running in circles.
>>58937186Bigger = cooler is the male grindsetBigger = better is the female grindset
>>58937312I want my shiny femboy gardevoir to be xxs
>>58936607Counterpoint, the first shiny fennekin and shiny alpha fennekin I found were female, when I was looking females. Anon's getting fucked by the RNG stick HARD.
I am going to shiny hunt alpha eevee for shiny espeon, what ball should I use to catch it?A comprehensive list of apriball for eeveelution is appreciated.
1,360 eggs no shiny
>>58937391it's green so either a green ball, pokeball, luxury or premier
>>58937394are you sure you're using masuda? do you have the charm?
>>58937391Dream ball or heal ball. Love ball if you really want an apricorn ballhttps://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bvIx7Q2Lxp7efHRrUh48WkuwirNlKardwSHVz_R8kA0/htmlview
>>58937391Friend ball>A comprehensive list of apriball for eeveelution is appreciated.Nigga just use this like a normal person.https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1bvIx7Q2Lxp7efHRrUh48WkuwirNlKardwSHVz_R8kA0
Pray for me I am trying for a shint Cyndaquil in Crystal
>>58937403>trying for a shintMore fibre's always a good bet. gl
>>58937403good luck, anonit's a good hunt
>>58937397Yes
>>58937433damn, that's really bad luckI've never went that high on a masuda hunt. Not even in White 2 when I tried to get a shiny rioly with masuda and shiny charm, where the odds were higher
>>58937306>an hour later get shiny alpha male ArctibaxHey that's the next best thing. Always remember complaining on /shg/ boost your chances of getting what you want.
Need luck or more perseverance anons, lend me your energy.
>>58937512here you go, brodon't waste it
>>58937512Depends. What are you hunting?
>>58937614I'm in the mines.I've done tougher hunts before, in ZA I did alpha mander prior to donut dlc. These hunts just tend to suck.
>>58937031
Finally, was not able to play for the past three days due to work. But finally, a female shiny Glaceon.
>>58937799Why does she look like she's 10 seconds away from getting raped by ugly bastards
>>58937835Bro the game takes place in France that wouldn't be an unrealistic event.
Season 7 has begun, go get that Blazikenite and flex your shiny mega Blaziken. Not alpha mega blaziken, shit looks like ass
>>58937862So fast, last couple seasons i just got the mega and dipped but before i always went for A rank.
>>58937829Congrats anon, glad you got it!
>>58935592This is why I took my chances during the SV event with boosted chances Frigibax, got me a full shiny Baxcalibur line
Welp my special scan gave me this fuck. Time to hunt.
>>58937994Roaming is shiny in go rn btw
>>58937994I thought he was shiny locked
>>58938021Don't know where you got that info from. The one in the special scan wild zone can be shiny hunt in ZA.
>>58938025OhCringeIt was better when he was shiny locked and you could only get him from golden week raids
>>58938029You're cringe. Fuck you. Fuck Gamefreak. And fuck shiny locking shit. >shiny locking is good bro trust >mfw its been 16 fucking years and I still have no shiny Victini
>>58938021In ZA? Only the gift Gimmi is locked, other chests are fair play
>>58938034Victini is cringe. We need more shiny mew distros
>>58938049Just shiny hunt the one in emerald. >but I need to cheat to get the mapYour own secret.
>>58938052>Just shiny hunt the one in emeraldTransferring pokemon from gen 3 to home is aids. Also I'm not playing through a Japanese copy of emerald and heart gold
>>58937994>its in the sewers>they only come in pairs>there's only 3 groupsFinally an actual dogshit hunt.
>>58938064There are no dogshit hunts, only dogshit hunters.
>>58934762>almost at 3000 eggs and still no shiny monkeyI don't think I'll ever get it but I'm too far to stop now
>>58938124Take a break and fap to some loli bro
>>58938140>Take a breakIf I stop now I will never come back to it. I'll play some fun vidya once I get it>fap to some loli bronot a fan lolianon
>>58938154Me personally when I shiny hunt i do ~100 at a time and then spend the rest of my day doing what ever I feel like. If I'm soft resetting I do 100 soft resets, if I'm breeding I do 100 eggs, if I'm dexnavving I do 100 dexnavs, if I'm hordesing I do 100 hordes. My only exception is dynamax adventures, I do 25 dynamax adventures because that's 100 encounters
>>58938268nta but I feel like doing only 100 encounters per day on any hunt is too little for me and I get paranoid that I'll never get itbut when resets take more than one minute to do (example: resets for a starter in BW), 100 encounters can take you like 2 hours, while in other games, you can do 300+ encounters in 2 hours
>>58938087There are definitely dogshit hunts, but they aren't in ZA.
Shiny Hoopa event when?I never realized that thing was so cool looking.
>>58938849pokemon daytrust the process
not a shiny but one day left to grab this one
>need research level 10 for all Pokemon in PLA to get a shiny charm>only finished around 80Somebody kill me
>>58939353Level 10 is piss easy, just do the tasks that give double points and you can finish a mon in like 2 battles
not a shiny but got myself one of these puppies (pun intented?)my DSlite's buttons are kinda not working properly and I never liked the feel of them either so I bought FAT DS insteadI wish I could have the money to buy one of those DS with capture card but they're so fucking expensive...ignore the nintendogs stickers, gonna remove them lol
>>58939585fuck forgot the pic
>buy a cheap turbo controller for doing teleporter spam>set it up to teleport back and forth between throh and hawlucha spawns>go off and do shit for like twenty mi ures and it's dropped like 200 calories in a tier 3 zone>three shinies, all of which are hawlucha (I already have more than I want)On one hand I know it's more efficient than me (that's why I bought it), on the other fuck shiny hawlucha.
>>58940030Oh shit, it kind of has macro support too. It's not automatic, but I can map multiple inputs to a single button.Now I can bench reset, not that I have any intention of doing so.
1,547 eggs
>>58940163congrats anonyou finally got it
>>58939585Are DSs as expensive as 3DSs nowadays? I kinda want to grab one as well.
>>58939332Is there anything special about this if you don’t have balltism
>>58940207only the pokeball.
>>58940207If you don't have PLA then you can have one from Hisui I guess?
>>58940200No
>>58940200I would say it depends but I think the first DS doesn't sell for that much unless it comes with a capture card
>fire red and leaf green are getting a switch release and home supportThese fuckers better not have home support ready for the gba games before za.
>>58940631nintendo is so weird manjust literally put them all on the eshop for 20 bucksFR/LG - HG/SS - Emerald - BW2hell even put XY S/M its literally printing free money, i will never understand why they dont do this
>>58940631Lemmie guess 30 bucks each? Hell even 20 each is a fucking scam.
>>58940694Funnily enough the two games they're putting up are $20 a pop. So maybe we'll get more of the games as stand alone releases.>>58940702Yea, $19.99 usd. You can check whatever currency you use on the shop right now, and they'll be out on the like 27th or whatever.
>>58940710Man what a joke of a company. I at least hope they baked any past events into the game for those buying.
>>58940717They did it with crystal on the 3ds, so maybe.
>>58940631oh hey, at least that may solve their Spinda problem if they put RSE later on sale
At 167 soft resets for Shiny Latios in ZA, kinda getting bored now and want to farm Beast Balls and other Shinies, should I just abandon the Latios scan for now? It might take me a while to get it again but I’m getting really bored of it.
One week until Gen 3 shiny hunts on Switch I guess, will you reset for a shiny starter /shg/?
>>58941016Commit
>>58941074If I didn't waste my time in 1/8192 odds hunting for shones back in the day, what makes you think I'm going to start now? I tried, I don't have the required autism to do so and find it enjoyable.
>>58941074>1/8192 oddsversus>Guaranteed shinies and 1/585 oddsAre you retarded? The only reason anyone should ever reset in a Gen 3 game is to go through the long process of getting a Colosseum shiny for a shiny true ribbon master.
Are shinies locked on this game or not?
>2 alpha shiny goomys>1 alpha shiny noibat>0 alpha shiny dratiniPlease you piece of shit game.
>>58941234None in Gen 3 iirc?
>>58941234iirc shiny locking didn't become prevalent until gen V. Its why you can shiny hunt shit like Mew and Deoxy in the gen 3 games. Again fuck Gamefreak for shiny locking shit for no real reason.
>>58941074I don't like soft resetting for starters
Shiny deoxysbros.. we are so back
>>58941249>finally got one to spawn>it even spawned with a non alpha shiny dratiniRemember /shg/ always complain to the general for a luck buff.
>>58941645I'm glad, I can now say this. I went benching for one in the city (no hyperspace/donuts), just looking a regular shiny Drat and ended up with an alpha shiny.
>>58941680LuckGOD...
>>58941074I'm good.I would only buy this if I could transfer mons from newer games there for ribbons. 20 bucks for a ROM and they didn't even bother adding online battles/trades.
>>58941234No, but it's 1/8192 odds with no way to boost them. Even if all of the events are unlocked, I believe only Deoxys would be worth hunting in it. If events aren't unlocked then I would have to imagine there's a better way to hunt any shiny Pokemon you could get from it.
>>58941074I will surely go for the shiny Charizaard.
>tfw it was realokay, that's nice and all but what about the events?
>>58942087Hopefully a surprise withheld for Pokemon Presents, otherwise will be a harder sell at least for me
Do you think we'll get all of gen 3 with their events?Huntable Mew sounds cool.
>>58942533I wish I could say yes but sadly this is GF we're talking about
its cheaper to buy a used switch 1 and the digital frlg than to get a physical gba version
>>58943001I'm glad I got a bunch of them back in 2014 when I got my first jobI regret not buying gen 1 and 2 cartridges tho...
we are so back
>>58942533No, you're only getting FRLG, because it's the 30th anniversary.
>>58943895We got red and blue virtual vonsole 10 years ago for the anniversaryThen a year later they added yellowThen a year after yellow they added gold and silverThen a year after gold and silver they added crystalRereleasing the old pokemon games yearly is literally the easiest money printer gameplay has and the only reason they stopped is because Nintendo was scared running the 3ds in its native GBA mode would make it more vulnerable to hacking
Still no luck on my shiny Cyndaquil in Crystal, its so pokover for me
>>58944678you're fineI've been trying to get a shiny snivy in pokemon black for years, on and off. I have done like 6000+ resets at this point and it takes like 71 seconds per resets so doing 100+ resets takes more than 2 hours
>>58944685yea I dunno if I'm that dedicated. I'm close to just grabbin one with good DVs at this point just so I can play the damn game. Maybe I'll just start a super soldier program and breed one up later.
>>58944707it took a lot of years and hunts to build up the patience for full odds shinies so yeah, this is not for anyone
>>58943868No we aren't. Lets not kid ourselves.
>>58943383When did the prices get so high? I bought my of frlg copies in 2020 and they were both $35. I remember in 2019 I tried to buy a copy of emerald for $50 but the seller cancelled the order because they lost the game
>>58942533I've had a vision, shiny Mew will be the FRLG HOME Pokedex reward.
>>58944678I salute anyone who hunts full odds, I did Cyndaquil and Celebi in Crystal and it was painful. Even the 1/64 breeding was a pain.
>>58945779>shiny mew is the frlg home pokedex rewardThen what is the RSE reward? Shiny Jirachi or shiny deoxys?
>>58945898hopefully jirachiyou can get a shiny deoxys if they decide to release the aurora ticket
>>58938124got it a bit after 3k, this one was painful
>>58930231why use a 2 and not a 3 are you retarded?
What's the meme around shiny hunting unown in frlg?
>>58946041I don't know about a meme but unowns in frlg have increased odds for some reasonI think it's certain unowns because the form is tied to the personality value which also determines the shinyness of a pokemon so if you want a certain letter, it might have increased odds dependingsome are 1 in 9000+ odds, others are 1 in 15000+ odds
>>58945906And you can get Mew if they do Faraway Island.FRLG reward will be Shiny MissingNo and it will corrupt your home save
>>58946113kino...
do you guys think we will get any mystery gift shiny on pokemon day?
>>58946219I never expect anything
>>58946219What they should do is distribute mythicals like they did with 20th anniversary but without Gamestop code shit, just internet distros and make them "permanent" as long as Switch/Switch 2 online exists or send them through HOME gifts
should i hunt, lugia, arceus or mewtwo today?
>>58946685yes
>>58946731i think i'll try to find god today
Are shinies that easy to get in the Legends games? I don't even have a shiny charm in PLA but I already caught 5 of them.
>>58946811>Are shinies that easy to get in the Legends games?Yes
>>58946811because the game spawns a lot of pokemon at the same time so the chances of one being a shiny increasesit's not like in the past where you could only check one pokemon at a time
>>58946811Yes. It's better this way honestly. Let shinies not be rare anymore.
>>58946739Good luck anon, are you on S1 or 2?
>>58946847i started this hunt on and off back on switch 1 but i am on a switch 2 now so it's so much faster!
>>5894685241.7s was my fastest resets. Average was probably 50s per reset for the first 2.5 weeks.When I started the game still crashed 30% of the time on start up. The last 1.5 weeks of the hunt was 45s average when it was fixed.7300 resets across a little under a month, I was booking it.
>>58946861>7300over odds but not too bad! i am terrible at keeping track of resets especially for hunts this long but im close to a hundred today
>>58946875I was afraid if being one of the poor bastards that goes 3-5x over odds. Once you're over it feels like an abyss. It means you were chosen as the 1/??? people to not get yours yet.At odds you have a 63% chance of having seen it, meaning you are less lucky than the other 2 people who got theres. At 7300, I had an 83% chance of having seen it by then and 5 other people had already gotten theirs, so to speak.It's the only way I was able to cope since I may have been predestined to be that 1/50 people who goes 4x over.
>>58946891see this is why i don't count lol
>>58946901It's hell resetting.I'm sitting on almost 200 encounters for Zapdos in DA, please get orange feet soon.
>>58946922>DAthose are so miserable when you lose at the end. i got phermosa in under 30 runs playing with a friend. the ai is so dogshit. good luck anon!
>>58946927DA is true cbt, as you noted they're God forsaken. Good luck on Arceus anon, piss llama awaits.
>over odds for the past 5 hunts>already over the odds for a SOS hunt in USUMI really should go back to ZA
