/shg/ - Shiny Hunt GeneralWhat are you hunting?How's morale?What did you get recently?Over or under odds?Good luck anons.Bank closing edition.
great shiny or greatest shiny?
>>59538272In gen 2 it's basically a turkey
>>59538254Mewtwo in VC RedOkay, but running out of things to watchShiny Snorlax in Fire Red a bit agoI stopped counting past 1400 for Mewtwo, but I'll get it eventually. Then I'm moving to Ho-oh in VC Gold
>>59538272It's very high tier.You must remember that Giratina and Rayquaza exists.
Trying to get a shiny Unown in oras and need to find the mirage spot first. Is there a way to change the mirage spots quicker? Online says not to change your time or it'll trigger a penalty.
>>59538254>What are you hunting?type null x2 in USUMmudkip in sapphire>What did you get recently?some shinies in SV (lost one shiny pawmot because it just despawned after a few resets)got an uncatchable pooch as well while hunting for mudkip
Lati and Regi hardcarrying my ass getting the battle ribbons in Emerald
>>59538359I'm 1k in on Ho-oh, it's an easy reset. I might enable the fast forward patch though.
Just setup Groudon in USUM hopefully it's just couple weeks max
>>59538473Wormhole hunts all took me a couple days each at worst, with charm, so you should definitely get groudon in a couple weeksGranted I was unemployed and hunted 6+ hours a day but still
>>59538479
good times wormhole huntingfinding the guzzlord wormhole was more annoying than the shiny hunt itself
>>59538479No charm and limited time, but maybe bank shutting down will give more motivation
Flirting with the Zygarde DA hunt again. Did about 40 captures in the past and my caveman brain says that I'll get lucky soon because I was unlucky right before.
>>59538494I had to find the ultra beasts twice cause I wanted to skip the cutscenesIt wasn't too bad, but it was definitely a tad annoying
>>59538494>>59538519Shit meant to reply to >>59538493
>>59538507Complete Zygarde's animation to kick you out of the den is pretty badass
Prepping SP for that Arceus hunt. I know the shiny charm is broken in BDSP but I still feel naked without it and just need a Spinda swarm to get it. Aside from that, need to prep a Blissily with the necessary moves and friendship grind it.
>>59538507I have yet to claim a single legendary from DA. At best, I'll take regular Blacpheon since I don't have one with my OT.
>>59538631you never played usum?
>>59538627Grind friendship on a bunch of bunneary or other "cute" mons as well while you ride around with Blissey if you care about ribbons. You need a full team of max happiness "cute" pokemon to make high quality poffins or whatever they are in bdsp.
>>59538642I already got a Mewtwo from Fire Red as my ribbon fag and I maxed his contest stats in ORAS. I am worried because I skipped Gen 3 and 4 contests and just pumped him in ORAS which lacks sheen and I'm seeing claims that BDSP contests look at sheen for the final contests in case max stats mean I can't feed him more.What do you mean about the poffin requirement though, some high level NPC only help you if you have 6 max affection cute mons?>>59538637Ultra Moon so I got Stakataka. I have a traded exploding clown man but not my OT.
>>59538669To make high quality poffins in BDSP, there are no NPCs, it's more like solo curry cooking in SwSh but you can only do it in Amity Square and instead of NPC boosts, high friendship buddies who can walk there give you the boost. So overall easier to make good poffins if you finish off that immediate grind of maxxing friendship quickly. Also some ribbon autism: the gen 3 and 4 ribbons are unique to those games, with gen 3 having an additional ribbon for contests (artist's portrait one), although they are later all collapsed into the memories ribbon, similar to the battle ribbons. If you don't care about the gold memories ribbon, you'd just get one and the separate artist ribbon then be done, but if you wanted the gold one, you'd need to get the contest ribbons from 3 and 4 as well
>>59538920Oh and for what you want (maxing sheen asap with no regard to stats), you just want to burn high quality berries you buy from the battle tower in BDSP
>>59538395just got my mudkip!literally just started today and after only 9 resets (2009 in total), I got itI'm glad I didn't get a 2nd uncatchable pooch
6 failed giratina dynamax runs in a rowI'm going to fucking kms
>>59539100I believe in you.
>beat lance>head to kanto>make a beeline for route 25>wait for buneay swarm>catch shiny male in love ballat last the second half of my adventure can begin
>>59539108thanks it almost worked, got to Giratina with all 4 hearts and then at half HP it used ancient power 3 times in a row and buffed itself all 3 times and then double-hit my guys over and over until we all died lol
>>59539122Clefable works too. But I just import a Lopunny from Platinum.
>>59539128Failure number 8: we were 1 hit away from defeating Giratina and Mimikyu decided to use Curse and kill itself on our final heart.NPCs are designed to sabotage you, confirmed.
I decided to take a break from reseting my Sudowoodo tree sprinkling in Heartgold and MM a Dratini as a Battle Tree win-con Dragonite in Ultra-Moon.I hatched a wonderfully shiny little bugger, but he doesn't have his hidden ability. I'll keep breeding for a dragon dance sweeper, but I'll train this little monster into a choice bander.
>>59539328Here's the deets!
>>59539330Thanks for sharing my celebration, and good luck with your hunts everyone.Remember, never give up!
>>59539328You aren't gonna just capsule him?
>>59539341capsules can't give HAs, assuming he's keeping it in gen 7
>>59539100>>59539183Hang in there anon.Yes it blows dick, yes the AI is designed to sabotoge you. My favorites are when you get a wide guard mon that never uses it. Or when you're 1 hit away from victory or loss and the last mon decides to use a Taunt.DA is true suffering and I'm so glad I'm almost able to cash out with the collection.
>>59539341>>59539386I plan to keep it in gen 7, I think I'm about at the point where I'll keep most my mons in the gen I discovered them. Yeah gen 7 doesn't allow me to switch abilities to hidden.
>>59539442>DA is true suffering and I'm so glad I'm almost able to cash out with the collection.Nice! I'll keep it up, I've gotten stuff with worse luck.I always wanted to catch stuff in Beast balls but I don't have the patience for that. Luxury and Premier look good enough.
>>59539471Wormhole hunting in usum is great for beast balls since the games let you get harvest phantump/trevenant through SOS chaining and allow you to buy infinite beast balls at aether paradiseI have every wormhole legend in a beast ball with the sole exception of Kyogre, which is in a master ball because it looks cool (also the fucker kept wiping my team cause I forgot to bring a water immunity and ran out of revives)
More than 20 years ago, I found a shiny Tentacool on my emulated Sapphire playthrough. Since I don't think there's an easy way to transfer that to Bank, I decided to breed a shiny Tentacool now in Sun (I still don't have any Gen 8 or 9 games).I have the Shiny Charm and I'm doing the masuda method but I think I've hatched more than 150 eggs, probably close to 200 and still no shiny.
>>59540858the odds are 500 something keep going
>>59539442>Zygarde dynamax adventure>nice team with galarian M. Mime, dynamaxed Jynx and Mantine.>Mantine doesn't use wide guard a single time>looseFuck you, Elisabeth.I hate Dynamax Adventures so much that I'd much rather hunt with 1/8192 odds.
How many hours would it take to get the shiny charm on a new save in SwSh anons? I think I have most of the pokemons already on bank.I want to do a playthrough with a shiny team but not full odds.
>>59540887Maybe 10 hours from start to finish just to find/evolve the couple mons you don't have. You'll also have to get to the 6th gym to get the charm.
>>59540887that's not possible though
>>59540869Yep. I had a route I was willing to reset over, but the wide guard user was inconsistent. Either it would spam wide guard like God intended or it would attack every time. No inbetween.
>>59540869>I'd much rather hunt with 1/8192 odds.this but unironically, i would even hunt zygarde 1/20000 if i could just soft reset it instead of doing DA's
>>59540893that's kinda annoying, I do have 2 pokemons I will use from other games though>>59540896I don't get it
What is the optimal way to hunt outbreak shinings in scarlet and violet using two Nintendo switches? I've heard that having multiple people in the same world increases your odds, but I don't know if that is actually true.
>>59541159>having multiple people in the same world increases your oddsit doesn't
>>59541163That is a shame, but I found it's pretty efficient to have player to set up a picnic overlooking the spawn area with the outbreak, and have player one run to investigate it, run back, use the picnic but skipping the animation, so I can drop out in less than a second, then run to investigate after everything has refreshed
>>59541219It's already pretty efficient with just 1 Switch
>>59541270It's even more effecient with two.
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Grinding up the Happiny you get handed in BDSP into a max HP and Sp.Def Blissily for Arceus by moving it to Shield and Pokenjobbing it while I do other shit. Aiming for normal Giratina (already have event shiny in Home) and Shiny Arceus in Luxary Balls and Giratina is proving a good test to show I may need hundred of Luxary Balls
>>59543171What's the point of pokejobs? Can't you max EVs with vitamins via watt farming -> buying luxury balls -> vitamin vending machine? Literally never interacted with the feature
>>59543198Do multiple Pokemon automatically is why. I have other shit to do and other games to play so I'm not in any rush to build them up, only takes two days per Pokemon with Pokerus and Power items anyway.
is there a chart to make raimbow donuts with 4 stars and under?
>>59543414I'm gonna be honest I don't know why you'd even want rainbow donutsThey're worse with rng than just one flavor and those can get bad as it is
>>59539442>>59540869>>59540905You have to take the Wide Guard user yourself though
>>59543782Not if you were the only one who had an ice type for example. You can use all 10 wide guards begore Zygarde faints if your AI companions have shitmons.
>>59543782NPCs refuse to take good mons. They exclusively swap until they get shit, useless mons.
>Ally keeps spamming swagger on Giratina instead of using ice beam.
>>59543858>ally swaggers right before the boss is going to reset status>the boss keeps any buffs
>>59543941
Just got Shield to play again and seeing this game after all this time I think it looks better than SV and ZAI hope MM isn't too bad though...
>>59543798>>59543838You don't take the Ice 'mon if the route has Wide Guard. Also resetting the route and taking a different path changes the AI choices. If you're resetting a sub-optimal route for Zygarde or similar then jokes on you.
>>59544109It's the preferred MM game for most people over SV or USUM, but you miss out on marks (very rare) and Dynamax Adventures is really why most people still shiny hunt in it, feels like.
>>59544128>knowing the AI swap options are borderline set in stoneThis guy dynamaxes
does shiny type null even exist...
The time will come when you will have nothing but regret for """shiny hunting""". You're wasting your very limited time that you will never get back to acquire worthless pixels. I hate to break it to you but if I cared, I could just turn on Pkhex and get myself one of these shinies in a matter of seconds while you spent countless of hours doing so.How fucking pathetic.
Decided to do my first 1/8192 for a 35% koffing in fire red. How much of a dog shit time am I going to have?
>>59544575See >>59544512
>>59544512>How fucking pathetic.yes, very pathetic that you think you can use a cheating device as a substitute for real experiences and memories
Do any SHW regulars have Dialga's route saved for DA? Need to grind for a heavy Ball first but route join after would be appreciated.
>>59544791Wouldn't expect to hunt while joining up with random fren on /vp/, just the one run for a normal one.
>>59544791Pretty busy today, but I can get you that route if you hang around. Might have to be tomorrow.
>>59544905I highly doubt I'll roll a heavy Ball today, just curious for now. Will absolutely ping you again tomorrow if I get one today but not holding breath.
>>59544777trips of truth
Finished non Park legendary hunting in SP Shiny Arceus aside. Busy today today but just posting to say I'm up to trade my SP Palkia for a BD Dialga for that Home Shiny Manaphy tonight (EST) or tomorrow for this weekend. Happy to pseudo touch trade if you don't want to lose Dialga, pseudo because would need to exit game to dump it in Home and back first.
>3000 SRs for eevee>3000 SRs for darkrai>3000 SRs for torchicwonder which one will sparkle first
>>59545205Uncatchable Poochyena upon ye
>>59545158My bd dialga is in home right now if you wanna just touch trade that way
>>59545696Absolutely, just getting back into Pokemon with Bank dying so forgot you could do that. Just got back in so 100% up to do that this weekend, got things to do at home first but will check thread often.
>>59546203I'll be around, just post when you've got time
>>59546208QQGLARFPPDZUFC when ready, tried trade room but looks like it's a 90 second cap.
>>59546283Friend request sent
>>59546295Thank you.
>>59546311no problem anonGlad to help out
I will not get angry about dumb NPCs in my dynamax runs.I will observe them as cute, innocent animals making silly decisions.I will be calm and understanding. They are not malicious, they are not trying to piss me off.
>>59546931This is why I run with randoms online whenever possibleThat way my crashouts are valid
Is there a site/pc bit that can keep track of shiny hunting progrss and not a phone app?
>>59546986there's this website https://shinydex.com/you need to make an account tho
I'm considering breeding a shiny Tyranitar and Sylveon to send to Champions
>>59546996Neat, thanks a lot.
>>59547065Why? Both of them are 2 minute hunts in ZA
>>59546986>https://pokedextracker.com/Far cleaner, far less attention seeking and timewasting.
>>59547737I don't have the DLC
>>59547803nta but you don't need the dlc to hunt larvitar and eevee
Perhaps the real shinies are the friends we make along the way.
>>59547894I made 0 friends while shiny hunting...
>>59547894/vp/ is my entire connection to the Pokemon community, I have made no friends, merely frens.
>>59538272Enter
>>59538272fug still reigns supreme imo
Why does Game Freak continue to make the worst kinds of shinies? Who actually gives a shit about the ones that are a tiny shade different in color or the ones that are some hideous shade of bright green?And the fact that these two don't color swap when they're shiny is a fucking crime.
>>59547949gamefreak is really bad at most things.
>>59547954Well ya we know they can't make a good game anymore. But picking good shiny palettes seems like something that any moron could manage without making something truly awful.
>>59547946My only shiny of him is via event, I wanted to hunt him in UM but I wanted a normal one in a friend ball since balltism wasn't activated until XY so Hg one was in a timer ball. If I knew I would drop Pokemon for a decade then easily get a friend ball one via ZA, I'd have hunted him in UM.I am grinding Dynamax Adventures so maybe I'll get lucky.
>>59547965I hunted one in soul silver and tried to get him in a luxury ball but I failed...had to masterball it...
>>59547967Yeah, I wouldn't do 1x balltism pre BW. Living dex and critical captures are the only way it's tolerable.
>>59547972it's fineI love hunting 1/8192 shinies and I can get another one in my HG copy if I ever get to finish my badge quest I started years ago...I'm stuck hunting for Raikou/Entei
>>59547894I made friends but then decided I didn't want to spend time with them anymore, but I'm somewhat anti-social and dislike having to pretend to be insanely liberal just to not offend anyone.
VC Ho-oh come on man I want to finish my VC dex and it's down to you and Lugia.
>>595480703 more days.Then the snow begins.
>>59540858well, here it is. I don't think I've reached the 300 eggs mark so all in all, not that bad. It knows Rapid Spin and has 5 perfect IVs, and luckily enough, the only IV that is not 31 is Attack.Already evolved it into Tentacruel and I'm gonna move it to Home after backing up my save file.
>>59548145You're not gonna get it at least the royal ribbon?
>>59548159I don't care much about Ribbons. I just wanted to have the first shiny I ever found for real.
>>59548172oh, I see. Well congrats then
>>59548177Thanks anon.
I got a shiny suicune on melonds but the save file won’t update(stays at 0 kb), what do I do?
Finally!after 1514 SRs (3028 in total since I was double hunting it), type null shinednow I only need to get another one in my other game
>>59548236NiceHow were you hunting? I'm planning on hunting it in ultra sun but I'm not sure if it's worth filling my boxes first
>>59548245>How were you hunting?what do you mean by how?I just put a jolly nature synchro as a lead in my party and started resetting
>>59548250did you fill your boxes to skip the first time they try to give you the mon? I've heard it drastically reduces the time for each reset but haven't looked into it yet
>>59548344to be honest with you, I don't remember if I did or not. I think I just declined the offer and that's itI finish that game many years ago and I just picked up to hunt thisI was hunting it in the aether HQ, not on poni island
>>59548347ah yeah if you're on usum that means you filled your boxes before wicke tries to give it to you the first timeI suppose when I get to that point I'll just detour and do some magikarp breeding in Sun to fill boxes
>>59548370then I guess thats what I didI had a lot of boxes full of breeding rejects from SM in the bank so I just put them in the game
>>59548376Yeah I screwed myself in that regard by porting my whole bank to Home when it opened up
already got full odds poipole, xurkitree, and celesteela from UM and am now suffering on zekrom and regigigas once that one's done>just get the shiny charmno chance I'm buying ANOTHER game for the privilege of grinding that out. lend me your power instead because these are the last two things I want before bank shuts down>just do DAs in SSno lol that shit sucks
>>59548404Did you get the hat pikachu?I simultaneously love and hate it
>>59548465I only get shinies I care about (which look good), and I don't really care about that one
>>59548467ValidPersonally I found it neat enough to hunt, permanent proof gamefreak fucked up a shiny lock
>>59548404Don't buy another game, just put cfw on your 3DS and finish the dex that way.
>>59549146You don't even need to do all that to finish the dex, why bother?
>>59549194You don't need to post, why bother?
>>59549198Now now, don't get mad because the act of pirating is too strenuous. I can hop on my S9+ and hand out what you need bro.
>>59549202You don't need to post to do that, why even bother?
Breeding for origin dex in SP now, have my JP ditto and the shiny charm before doing in case I pop shinies.
>>59549308I'm here for you, my main man.Trade it up
>>595491463DS hackers are the vegans of video games. I don't care that you hacked your console, I'm not doing it, get fucked and quit recommending it because you have a cultlike obsession
>>59549796go buy another game then
