#shiny egg hunting

[magicmalcolm]

A BABY! (literally)

Chef, one order of a Brave Egg With A Tan.

It's Togepi Thursday!

[front-facing-pokemon]

[tart-miano]

COMFORT AU FULL SPEED AHEAD

[thegoldendoorknob]

I do this pretty regularly with friends over Discord, so I figure I'd share our group shiny hunting activities!

I've recently done it to help my friends hunt for Teal Mask restricted Pokemon until they get Home working for non-dlc again.

Feel free to make a fancier looking version if this catches on.

[camping-with-monsters]

SHE’S ASKING FOR UPPIES. SHE’S ASKING FOR UPPIES AND YOU’RE JUST GONNA KEEP SCROLLING!?

[rotclaw]

celebratory shiny roggenrola doodle for my boyfriend who finally hatched one after 1676 eggs

[whenthelightisrunninglow]

here comes a special boy! here comes a special boy!

encountered at a search rating of 102! very lucky

[shinysamurott9]

I had to drop into the city where my College is to sort out some stuff and on the way back I picked up some DS Games, including Pokemon Ranger and Gaurdian Signs. Out of curiosity I checked the save, both because of course you do that when you pick up old second hand cartridge games and because I wanted to check if this cart could still redeem a Manaphy Egg, a literal once per cartridge event.

Ranger Net was actually unlocked, which is usually a bad sign as that likely means the Manaphy mission has already been done. BUT, from what I can tell, even though they unlocked the event missions, they never actually did them. I think I have a legit Manaphy here.

Uh shoutout to Eoin for never doing these apparently

[bitchking-of-angmar]

She is beauty, she is grace

She took me 1069 masuda eggs to find over the course of months bringing me to the brink of sanity 😭

[tropeifier]

Originally posted online on August 6, 2016.

Do Daycare About Shinies? Page 9: (Diamonds and) Pearls After Swinub

[dragonspiral-tower]

shiny snubbull on my 666th egg :)

[front-facing-pokemon]

I keep thinking that I don’t want to shiny hunt any more but then I somehow find something to shiny hunt. I have hunted so many things and my luck is absolutely insane for some reason??? Like I hunted every scarlet paradox and most of them I got in the first sandwich. A couple were second sandwich, roaring moon took 4. Then in my most recent hunt I got three shiny hoppip and a shiny yungoos in a single sandwich when I was hunting the entire hoppip line. Like legit HOW????

honestly, back when i did shiny hunts, i didn't even use sandwiches and i was still getting them relatively quickly. the longest hunt i did was the trapinch hunt, and that was probably because i never got any outbreaks and i was hunting it in an area where trapinch were like a 20% spawn while simultaneously using the masuda method. i don't think i had the shiny charm at that point, either—all things considered, before my jangmo-o hunt, all of my hunts were super inefficient by typical shiny hunting standards, and i still got all the ones i wanted. i think shiny hunting in sv is waaaaayyy easier than in all the other games just because of outbreaks raising the chances so much, sparkling power sandwiches, the picnic method to unspawn all the pokémon still working, and being able to see shinies in the overworld. that last point means i've just gotten an absurd amount of just random shinies of pokémon i did Not even want. so. i think it's something about the game giving Everyone absurd luck. which i support! it encouraged me to shiny hunt At All. i never would've shiny hunted on any game before this one if it wasn't so easy—and varied enough to make it fun, as opposed to just spinning around in circles and waiting like 30 seconds per encounter so that i could get into the fight and then run and everything. i think sv really streamlined the shiny hunting process and made it really nice. no point in keeping it difficult, tedious, and inaccessible forever, right?

fucking thing indeed. hell yes

[coconutcows]

No but like it actually is a big Issue that they Shiny Locked all the returning legendaries in the Indigo Disc DLC

Nintendo/Gamefreak/The Pokémon Company know there’s an entire dedicated subset of fans who’s goal is to collect Shiny Pokémon. Shiny Hunting is already a process that truthfully is so tedious and lengthy that not everyone can do it. You have to have a lot of patience and be able to have a lot of time available (it can be done alongside other things but you do have to pay some attention to the game still) and they still go out of their way to make this nearly impossible.

Shiny Locking didn’t even exist until gen5 and for a while they only locked the current new Pokémon while previous ones were still huntable. It’s even more ridiculous when most of these Pokémon are available as Shiny in Go (and if it’s some weird way to try to people to play Go, well not everyone can do that for multiple reasons, but especially when Niantic ignores making the game more balanced for all player types)

Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Mewtwo, and Mew have all been around for 27 nearly 28 years. There is no reason to Lock them anymore (especially considering Mew can only be legitimately hunted by buying a Japanese Copy of Emerald or paying for the All in One #151 research in Go)

Did you know Manaphy, a Pokémon released in Diamond and Pearl has been around since 2006?? Do you know how many times it’s been available as shiny??? Never. Seventeen Years and the only way you can legitimately obtain a Shiny Manaphy is by getting a copy of Pokémon Ranger and moving the Egg around until the codes will be right.

There’s no reason to keep locking Legendaries, especially the regular legendaries. If this is about them wanting to keep them for giveaways that’s stupid. Wait and hope the one you want is available as a gift and if it’s not sit there and wait some more.

At the very least they can leave the regular legendaries unlocked and save the Event/Mythical Pokémon for giveaways, but even if they do that they have to actually give away the Pokémon. God knows when Hoopa, Volcanion, Marshadow, Zeraora, Zarude etc etc are going to be given away again

[daisybell-on-a-carousel]

🫂 it's ok. I'm sure it was just a trick of your eyes

Wahhhhh

[felidaeng]

baby's first badge-quest is going well

[wildflowercryptid]

i need to head to bed, but i'd like to share the 3rd shiny i've just randomly stumbled upon in scarlet.

i'm making up for never encountering a wild shiny pokémon in any of the other games, i guess.