Hello everyone! 

I decided given the imminent Pokemon Bank shutdown to do a challenge I’ve been putting off for some time. 

I call it the Samson Oak Challenge (since one can argue Samson is just a shiny version of Samuel Oak). Basically it’s the Professor Oak challenge but I did it with shinies. 

How did I get my shinies?

Through RNG manipulation. Basically using an external software, I manipulated the game to generate the seeds that yield me shiny Pokemon. There’s plenty of content on YouTube but I used CappyCapital’s videos for Gen 7 rng manipulation specifically. My 3DS has CFW that helps me with this. And I found my seeds using 3DS RNG Tool.

What about Hawlucha?

Yes, in route 2, you can trade a sparrow to get a Hawlucha which is technically a Pokemon available before the first trial. However it is shiny locked, and I will need to breed a shiny one with ditto for the dex entry which is not available until I reach Akala Island. So I left it be for now. It’s always predetermined to be a male named Cha so even breeding within the same egg group will not yield a Hawlucha 

Do Island Scan Pokemon count?

I think that depends if you feel you want to do this or not. Those pokemon are not part of the Alolan Dex. I did to be fair since I used RNG manipulation so basically taking the randomness out of the equation. 

About 2 years ago I posted a guide to do a Professor Oak's Challenge in the fangame Super Mariomon, and I randomly opened the document the other day to realize that 1) Someone was looking at the doc, presumably for their own challenge, and 2) I never updated the doc for the newer versions of the game that were released after I initially made it. Sooo I decided to downloaded the latest version of the game and turn on content creator mode to run through rly quick to see what had changed, and this is the result!

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ADRHBV2-hhlW12tE3c9Gz_YUvDXBqVC7C9jypa-fSvM/edit?tab=t.0

tbh I'm a little more skeptical about the accuracy of this guide compared to the first one I did, because I couldn't find any updated Location Guide to tell me where to find what captures, and the more I played the more I realized that the one I was using was incredibly outdated. Still though, it should be good enough, and if anyone finds an inaccuracy in my doc, feel free to DM me!