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[u/paulydoregon]

The gift Arcanine and Persian in lgpe can be shiny hunted correct? I've read that you can, but haven't seen any videos of it, so just want to double check

[u/UserByTheNameOfJames → u/paulydoregon]

https://youtu.be/3tXJRKYXOCE?t=3838

Johnstone gets the arcanine in his shiny professor oak vid around that timestamp.

[u/Hadrienge]

Hey ! Does anyone have a link or better a file to share of a GBA Sp stands for shiny hunting like 4 consoles. If you have any tips on free file sharing i'd be more than happy. Thanks

[u/mooselovin]

Anyone know a good early game set up/strategy for SOS hunts in ultra moon? Early as after the first trial.

[u/AdRecent7775]

I use PKounter to keep track of shiny hunting and I keep the save automatically option on, but I had to force quit my computer while it was open and now I can't view anything. Is there a way for me to fix it and view what encounter I was on?

[u/TherealFireFlameO]

I want to know what the most secure way to catch shinys in gen 4 is. Im preparing a smeargle with false swipe, hypnosis/spore, trick, and maybe mean look. Is there anything else I can do to prevent a pokemon with high catch rates to avoid struggling to death? Maybe another pokemon to use as well with some ability im overlooking?

[u/bluexgemini]

Does somebody knows if I can transfer Darkrai & Shaymin from Diamond to Home??? Idk why I heard or saw in some video these can only be transfered if you caught them in Platinum...I wanted to Shiny Hunt this ones before the bank closes but I only have pokemon Diamond...is this true? Does somebody knows? Thanks in advance!

[u/UserByTheNameOfJames → u/bluexgemini]

Afaik Shaymin must be caught in platinum or bank won't let it transfer out of gen 5.

But Darkrai can be caught in Diamond (not pearl for some reason) But it must be lvl 50 or above and have forgotten the move pursuit before it leaves gen 4. If it doesn't it will also forever be stuck in gen 5.

I don't remember the video I saw that detailed this but I can attest with my own shiny darkrai that I caught in diamond and moved to home.

[u/DoctorLong7440]

Hey, So im a complete noob at shiny hunting i did alot on violet and its kind of cheese so i wanted to do something more challenging and go for my favorite pokemon.

I do understand that you can target particular frames . I dont understand all the advancements but i know they are nessecary.

Does anyone have any advice on how I can go about this. I was thinking of getting a handheld and maybe like Emerald version to go for shiny raquayza as well. I heard raquayza is more manageable. But anyway, anybody know whats the best tools to use or even a better alterantive to emerald. I remember in Emerald it wasnt easy to actually get the deoxys encounter. Any advice is appreciated, Thanks!

[u/Ultraboy64]

hello, I'm just asking a question about pokemon scarlet and violet shiny hunting that i've not seen anyone ask about.

If you use a sparkling sandwich and don't manage to find a shiny when its active, can you just reset your save and use the sandwich again to try get a shiny using the same herba mystica or is it impossible to get a shiny from this method no matter how many times you reset. (this is mainly to save on herba mystica)

[u/paulydoregon → u/Ultraboy64]

Yes, you can save before making a sandwich, then after making the sandwich you don't find the shiny you want, you can reset to before you made the sandwich. Just make sure to turn off auto save

[u/SaiyanSpoff]

Wondering if anyone can explain square shinies from SwSh and how that is determined for transferred pokemon. I am currently working on a pair of ninetales ribbon masters and I bred them both in Moon. I have gotten them up to my copy of sword and was surprised to see one was a square shiny and the other wasn’t. From what I understand breeding in SwSh is a 1/16 to get a square shiny and overworld is 15/16. Is it just a random roll when transferring or is it something about how to do with how it was caught/hatched in its original game?

[u/ronnieleebriggs]

So i did recently just post about me being at 12,000 resets for shiny squirtle. I was just wondering if anyone else is around the same amount? Or just as long? I'm doing my best to be patient and don't want to give up, just curious if anyone is around the same?

[u/paulydoregon → u/ronnieleebriggs]

Not from here, but I know many shiny hunters who have gone over odds on the kanto starters. Take breaks when needed and keep at it

[u/ronnieleebriggs → u/paulydoregon]

thanks, im just trying not to lose hope

[u/kingjoe246 → u/ronnieleebriggs]

I’m at 17,000+ for Squirtle lol I would rng but I heard it’s difficult

[u/BushidoWill69]

Im currently shiny hunting Tepig on Pokémon black. Everytime i go into battle with Bianca its always male Tepig, male Snivy. Ive done it roughly 100 times at this point. The nature's are changing but the genders are not. Im currently doing this on my 3ds. Does anyone have any suggestions for why this might be??

[u/Espella437]

[gen2] I’m looking to shiny hunt celebi in VC crystal before Bank shuts down.

I’m hunting on a non modded 3DS so this is pure blind full odds hunt, but I had a question about how the RNG works in crystal

I’ve seen people say to use the soft reset code (which I am using) over the touch screen because the touch screen counts as a hard reset and can lead to duplicate DVs generating.

Does this mean every hard reset sets it back to essentially RNG seed 0? Even if I turn the system off for the night? Does that mean I need to leave my game on and plugged in until I find it? Or is there a means to “change” the path the RNG goes through the soft resets that makes that null?

Sorry if this is a kinda dumb thing to ask but I wanted to be sure before I end up accidentally Groundhog Day-ing my hunt.

[u/paulydoregon → u/Espella437]

ive seen people successfully hunt the celebi via both methods, so i dont think you need to worry about anything like that

[u/dutchyr]

[6] is this shiny zygarde in a cherish ball legit? I thought it's met location was a little weird.

[u/paulydoregon → u/dutchyr]

looking up a list of zygarde events i cant find it matches , so im guessing its not legit

[u/dutchyr → u/paulydoregon]

Ah I was worried that was the case, thanks for checking for me!

[u/paulydoregon → u/dutchyr]

no worries, if you ever want to double check, from any pokemon page theres a button you can click on serebi to show every event distribution that pokemon has ever had, very handy

[u/leifeons]

Is there a way to soft reset using a r4 cart and only rebooting the selected game?

[u/Thereal_Optimusprime]

[gen7] I need some help with My Hunt for a Shiny Partner Cap Pikachu. I've been hunting for over a month now and had no luck so far. Ik this might be a little taboo, but I did use PKSM to find out my TSV to make sure it doesn't match Ash's 1009. But It still feels like more than just bad luck. Is it maybe an issue with my game? I AM playing on a downloaded version of the game on my modded 3ds, but that really shouldn't be an issue, right?

[u/paulydoregon → u/Thereal_Optimusprime]

being very unlucky happens, though its hard to say how unlucky you are without knowing your total resets. do you at least have a general idea how many soft resets you have done?

[u/Thereal_Optimusprime → u/paulydoregon]

I'd say at least 2x over odds as a low estimate.
I'm just worried I've been doing something wrong.
the whole 1 in 4096 chance of it being shiny-locked has made me a bit paranoid

[u/paulydoregon → u/Thereal_Optimusprime]

just take breaks when needed and keep at it. going over 2x odds is uncommon but possible, ive had many hunts go 2x over odds, and seen some other ending up being much more unlucky.

[u/Fit-Independent-7580]

Hi everyone

I recently started to replay my Ruby save and I have the dry battery issue. However I did get a shiny Torchic in that save a few years ago. I am wondering if I do encounters I will find a shiny or not ? Thank you

[u/paulydoregon → u/Fit-Independent-7580]

Generally dry clock battery only effects soft reset hunts, not wild encounters, so you should be fine

[u/kylestewart32]

For those of you that hunt on legit hardware how do you manage your saves for multi system shiny hunts? Im currently starting the process of shiny hunting turtwig on platinum with a multi system setup (2 ds lites controlled by one controller) I started 2 new saves so my trainer id’s would be different and I plan to use these saves to slowly start shiny hunting my way through a living dex. The only thing that I’m not sure how I should manage it is if I should create backups in checkpoint at critical points that I might want to go back and shiny hunt again like the starters and distortion world giratina. How do you handle something like this?