#Personal Shiny Hunt

[coconutcows]

I wouldn’t call Shiny Hunting in ScarVi “Easier” per se, than any other Pokémon Game, just more obvious.

Because if you hunt a specific Pokémon, it’s just like any other hunt. Due to RNG it’s going to be either really quick or a gotdamn slog, because with any shiny hunt it’s guaranteed eventually as long as you keep going.

However due to all Pokémon spawning in the overworld, and each one being rolled whether it’s what your looking for or not, it’s much easier to find them, like you’ll be quite likely to stumble over a lot of random ones, especially if you have the shiny charm.

One of my best tips tho is if a Pokémon has a very subtle shiny, auto battle everyone you come across. I also recommend looking up Shiny Sprites so you know which ones are hard to find. I know some people like being surprised by how the shiny looks but that’s how I found my Shiny Plusle. If I didn’t know how subtle it’s shiny is I never would’ve thrown my Gallade at every one I wouldn’t have found it

My second best tip, if you just want a shiny and don’t care what it is, is to designate an area and circle it repeatedly. I found 3 shinies in the hidden cave where Iron Valiant/Roaring Moon spawn, and 2 near the cave in Indigo Disk where Torchic spawns doing this, although I do have the shiny charm.

(Pokémon Database has a shiny dex that shows every Pokémon’s shiny sprite from home in order of dex number and each Pokémon’s page has a section to show all sprites regular and shiny over the years, sometimes I look over it when I’m bored to refresh my memory)

[fauvester]

little moshang fan kid <3

spoiled, aloof, a bit of a bitch, terminally 'weak constitution'-ed, lowkey lazy, prefers reading his dailies in the office and pretending to do paperwork to fighting

[front-facing-pokemon]

[ganymedesclock]

So that #Syrin the Dread Blade tag, thats a new one. Seems like a interesting character, a sentient sword, how did Tyler happen upon them? What does the sword look like, and does it have any special magical abilities? How do they like the other members of the party? Do they actually speak or do they have a telepathic voice?

Technically it's just a tagging misconception; I haven't tagged Syrin reliably before because his nature as a sword does mean he's kind of attached to Taylor. But he is his own dude!

A short primer: magic items in this setting tend towards a level of awareness. Magic is essentially what souls are made of, ergo, if you stuff enough magic in anything, it starts to have a soul, and behaves accordingly. Entities as fully developed and chatty as Syrin are rare; far more common is that magic items tend to feel just a little bit haunted, inclined towards some things and away from others. It's a bit creepy if you're not used to it; enchantments are commonplace and widely accessible, so that 'not being used to it' is more a statement on if the individual is used to handling a particular thing.

Syrin himself is the ostensible opus of the previous Lord of Darkness, a Dark Sword that was meant to contest and cancel out the legendary sword of light wielded by the hero. Ostensibly, because for unknown reasons Syrin was left in storage the eve of the fateful battle. Being groomed exclusively for this purpose by someone he regarded as a father and then abandoned for ten years definitely wasn't traumatic or terrifying for someone with the cognitive level of a child, we promise. Especially since Syrin needs to eat.

Syrin's construction, and what leads Taylor to point out he's a bit like a 'needle', is a crystal-bladed thrusting sword with a hollow core. Despite its delicate looks, the blade is actually both quite sharp and highly durable; the thin tube at the center being essentially his mouth, by which he is supposed to drink blood. His victims', if he can get it, or, failing that, magically drawn from his host. As a result his blade itself ranges from grayish translucence to dark red if he's gorged to fullness.

From there, he has the power to generate and shape a kind of magical flesh, allowing him to weave more elaborate forms around his core body, the sword.

As you can guess, this gives Syrin a somewhat unpleasant and brutish first impression on people, as he has no verbal filters, was raised by a would-be conqueror of the world, and is dependent on blood and thus interested in more fights than not. I've described him before as like a preteen on xbox live who talks up a nasty game mostly out of loneliness and a need to be liked, where you can tell the kid themselves is not as bad as the people who taught them all those words and that they were "funny".

Deep down (and not all that deep, like I said, no filters), Syrin is a vulnerable child who was groomed to do violence and got no experience with it until strangers came to loot the dangerous ruins he was held in, at which point he did what you'd expect a strong but sheltered child to do faced with a home intruder, and killed/devoured that individual in a panic. His first kill being no glorious conflict or victory approved by his father, but essentially a desperate scramble in the dark with himself on the edge of fatal starvation messed him up even more than ten years of silence.

Enter Taylor and party, who happen to pass through those same environments. Syrin makes an attempt to body-snatch Taylor that fails due to the latter's particular properties, and Taylor, being both a good-hearted person and a stubborn busybody, feels obligated to bring this chatterbox with them and attempt to bully him into developing some sense of tact while Syrin attempts to Corrupt His New Wielder To Violence.

This doesn't work because Syrin has no real ideas how to go about corrupting someone besides loudly telling them to stab things more, while Taylor is an apprentice surgeon and mortician who is a lot more desensitized to bodies and their workings such that if they have a weapon, they'll at least consider it as a solution to most problems. So the punchline is that Syrin is more often thrown/flabbergasted by Taylor than vice versa, while the latter just sees him as a sort of annoying kid who's easily talked into almost anything as long as you compliment him first.

[josecariohca]

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[tactician]

ummm i just had the wildest shiny luck ever...?! THREE resets into a hunt for a shiny hgss starter, this little golden chikorita appeared. she was not shy in the slightest... she showed up and she turned out and i LOVE her for that.

since you see 3 starter pokemon per reset in hgss, i saw 9 starters total! nine. dear god. i'm still in shock. shoutout to my mom, who came up with the name 'buttercup' teehee.

this hunt is actually part of another long-term shiny hunt challenge that i want to take on! i'll talk more about it under the cut. :3c

ever since i wrapped up my leafgreen badge quest hunts (still working on the plot and training everyone up!!!), i've been trying to decide on my next full odds shiny hunt challenge. i knew that i wanted to revisit my fav region - johto - but decided that i'd take a break from the badge quest format. i just wanted to Shake Things Up A Bit, you know? after going back and forth on a lot of ideas - from dream teams to monotype challenges - i finally settled on something that i am really, really vibing with.

as a lot of you know, silver is my favourite pokemon character. he's been my fav ever since i played silver version as a little kid!!! so i decided that i'd name my character 'silver' and that i'd shiny hunt for the entirety of his team. i decided to take it a step further and include all of the pokemon that he's ever had across all of the games.

to be clear, it means that i need a shiny of EACH of these pokemon. i want the full johto trio, all 3 of those legendaries (especially ho-oh, given the amazing pure hearts and rainbow wings event in pokemas ;;), and a shiny tyranitar (who i will be hatching eggs for lmao).

it's definitely going to be a difficult challenge but i'm really excited about it, because it already means a lot to me on a conceptual level. it's a fun way of showing my appreciation for silver, johto, AND pokemon as a whole. :D

i actually didn't mean to start this challenge at all today... buttercup appeared while i was trying to acclimate myself with ds soft resets LMFAO like i was FULLY still in setup mode - so i am taking that as a fortituous little sign.

i'll be doing soft resets for totodile and cyndaquil in my spare copy of soulsilver and, once they join me, i'll trade them over to my main file where chikorita is vibing away!

[vickysaurus]

Journalist: "And we're back live at the Emperor's Castle! In light of Scooter Crane's retirement, today's ceremony will confirm Raine Whispers as the next head of the Bard Coven."

Raine: "Do I have to be on camera?"

Darius: "For Titan's sake, just say something."

"Uhhh, I am honored to work with Emperor Belos in preparation for the Day of Unipy."

"Uh, I mean, Unily! I mean, uh- oh no, this is going all wrong. Get me outta here!"

Darius: "...Just cut the feed."

"How are you supposed to be head bard with stage fright?"

[head-full-pokemon-thoughts]

Shiny hunters, I saw people argue about this on Twitter and getting very heated about it. Where you do stand on the matching balls to shinies debate

[shinysamurott9]

Gen 4 Anorith is kicking my ass but I've been ending every hunting Session with a sandwich and run through Area Zero in Scarlet. ngl I think this might be my preferred way to hunt in SV.

[coconutcows]

I know finishing research in Arceus boosts your shiny chances of that pokemon, but when I finished Sudowoodo’s entry last night I didn’t think those chances extended to Go

[professionalsafetyhazard]

if I was, uhh. A researcher researching shiny Pokemon. Would you catch some shinies for me?

Okay first off if you’re researching shiny Pokémon you can buy from an ethical breeder. If you’re researching wild shiny Pokémon though your best bet is typically to actually. Yknow. Go observe them. In the wild. Because as soon as you catch them and take them out of their natural habitat you’ve already skewed the results of whatever research you’ve done.

TLDR; no ❤️

[sl33py-g4m3r]

what would be a good nature for fidough? moreover what should my "starter" for this run be? just fidough? or igglybuff? azurill? ralts?

I think those are the only fairy types I can get my hands on near los platos~~ unless I'm missing some~~

hadn't caught anything yet mainly cause I'm too busy lately helping my sibling w stuff to play; and by the time I can, I shouldn't cause I need to be up during the day to help them.

backwards sleep schedule time not advisable~~

I think azurills nature is going to be adamant w huge power as the ability, wigglytuff too is modest w competitive, ralts also modest w synchronize, fidough, I have no idea at all....

I've got ideas for a team I just don't know if it's any good yet~~~ and I've not used fidough so this'll be interesting~~

I do have a question tho~~ aside from the fidough nature thing~~ or two actually~~

If you catch a pokemon that's tera type matches the type you're running a monotype of, can you use it? or just purely use the type given? thus not being able to use say, a digglett cause it's ground but tera type is fairy, so it's not viable to be used. gym leaders do this tho...

also when do you start "the teal mask" DLC? is it supposed to be end game content? can you start it earlier in the story? when should it be done? last game I did it end game~~ and "the hidden treasure of area zero" is in fact end game content~~

the playthrough is at a stall at the moment~~ rip~~

[strawbebbyy-shinies]

SHINY MANAPHY!! In 1786 egg hatches. I'm kind of in disbelief honestly - this is a shiny I always kinda felt I would never get, it's so fucking cool to see it on my game - and in less than 2000 eggs, too!! Approx. 3600 non-manaphy encounters and no phases.

My thoughts on this hunt are that it's not as bad as people make it out to be. It's easy to get into a rhythm with it and if you have a show or something to focus on, the encounters stack up surprisingly fast.

[saberamane]

Pokemon...I've hatched 6,724 Hisuian Zorua eggs. Please give me my shiny already. I've done everything right, I should have several by now. I'm only asking for one...

I refuse to start the DLC until I have it.

[snoruntfan]

Well there’s my luck for this month 😅

I wasn’t even shiny hunting!

[proudfreakmetarusonikku]

FUCK MY LIFE I tried the mindfulness thing which I can only do with shiny hunting personally and I found my target in like ten minutes like by any normal standards that’d be “lucky” but no it fucking isn’t I can’t distract myself from the pain now