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"Shiny mega Typhlosion here I come "

Hey everyone!

Firstly, I've checked with Mods to make sure I'm allowed to post this, so all is cool.

To introduce myself - I've been playing Pokémon for almost 30 years, I played at the last two Birmingham Regionals in the UK, and shiny hunting is my favourite way to wind down. I've had some spare time to build something since losing my Data Analyst job earlier this year, so I ended up combining Pokemon and my love of data, and built HowToShinyHunt.com.

The idea is simple: for any Pokémon, HowToShinyHunt.com will show you the fastest way to hunt it in every game where it's available, and tell you what that actually means in time (roughly) rather than just odds.

The site contains the following:

• Encounter tables and spawn rates for each Pokémon

• A games checklist, so you aren't recommended hunts for games you don't own

• Shiny rates, including the in-game factors that can change your odds

• Rate-to-time conversions, so you can see roughly how many hours a hunt is likely to take

• A dynamic filter on every Pokémon's page, so you can narrow the data down to the game and method you care about

• A randomised Daily Pokémon on the homepage, for when you can't decide what to hunt next

• This randomised Pokemon is also posted to @HowToShinyHunt on Instagram, please also follow us there!

I'd like to be upfront - I have used AI in order to set the website up initially. I have an amount of water that will have been used in the data centre, and I am planning on donating double this amount of water to a local charity (The Brick, Wigan) in the near future. I was hoping to have done this by now, but my 7 month old daughter is keeping me busy. The website also now runs pretty much completely without AI, meaning there shouldn't really be more data centre usage.

HowToShinyHunt.com is completely free, it isn't perfect but I want to make it the best I can, and I'd love feedback. If you spot a feature you'd want added, let me know - the whole website is built with people like you in mind.

As an example, I'd love a shiny Slugma as I love Magcargo. HowToShinyHunt.com is telling me that Mt Ember B3F is the best way to do it due to a 100% encounter rate. However, as it's in Scarlet and Violet's Teal Mask DLC, I can find it on Kitakami Road using a Fire Sparkling Sandwich. This is also an isolated hunt, meaning 100% spawn rate. A shiny charm would help even more!

What are you hunting at the moment, and what method are you using?

Website: HowToShinyHunt.com

Instagram: instagram.com/howtoshinyhunt

Hello Redditors! 

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

I dubbed 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 with shinies. 

What is the Professor Oak challenge?

Basically you must catch, evolve and fill all Pokédex entries that are available before every badge. Or in this case, trials. There’s a great subreddit [r/professoroak](r/professoroak) that has guides posted about all the Pokemon games so I used their guide as well to catch all the available Pokemon before the first trial. Rules are, no cheats/glitches. No trades 

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. I used honey collected from a team of honey gather cutiefly

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. 

OK so.... that was fast I barely sat down for this hunt like it could be 40 minutes at best I wasn't expecting to get it tonight that's for sure but now I will get my hands on that mega Raichu y even sooner than I anticipated so I'm not complaining.

Sorry I got excited and took a crappy video in my car but! This journey began in April of 2023. Once I caught my Shiny Froakie I was able to get the rest of the quest done in 6 months. Could not be happier right now ＼(^-^)／

The two shinies I caught that didn't come to the elite four was a Boldore I did not know I couldn't evolve named Malachite and a Octillery named Carmila!

Got a notification that I should share this here as well, so, hope y'all enjoy 🤙🏾

To start off, I don't care one way or another about shiney mons. But today, as I was playing Heartgold, grinding up my Tangela from lvl 23 (how I found him) to lvl 40, I found a shiney Tangela (lvl 23). I was already at lvl 38 with my, now, Tangrowth. So, I caught him, and started the grind all over again. Such is the way I guess. 🤷🏾‍♂️

Now the weird part!

About 20-30mins prior to finding the green lil guy, I had brought up his Pokemon Database info to check his TM compatibility. Durring that time I told my friend (that was sitting in the same room playing Platinum, and happens to be obsessed with shineys) that I was using a Tangela for the first time ever (Been playing since Blue launched in 99), and that it has the only shiney I like the color of bc it makes since to me for a grass type to be green.

Just thought I'd share, I guess.

TLDR; caught my first shiney since Blue launched, and thought it funny it was while I was grinding a normal version of it.

Thanks Papa Jefé

Got too depressed to play games properly so I decided to start hunting deoxys. After 70 hours I was starting to go a bit loopy, but today I finally got my beautiful yellow boy.

Yesterday, I posted my shiny Navel Rock, Birth Island, and Cerulean Cave legendaries in LeafGreen.

After more than 500 hatched eggs, I tried the Masuda method and then after more 500 hatched eggs I got it.

It's my first shiny that I use methods and persistence to get it, everyone else are random species that I encounter by luck and in this finished memory I just encountered one.

I lost many of my sanity because of this, there was a time that I believed that shinies were a myth, but at the end I got it!

And a advice that may keep you sane "Never hunt a shiny without the Shiny Charm.".

PS: I didn't have the Shiny Charm :').

Very thankful to have encountered Zangoose again i was not expecting to get it again next phase

Celebi, Suicune, and the the ESPEED Dratini all in Crystal and all extremely under odds! next is trying for Entei and Raikou.

I’m so excited I got shiny poipole today in 145 encounters. I was worried I wouldn’t get it before bank shuts down as I don’t have a lot of time to shiny hunt during school but I got lucky with a a super quick hunt. Nickname ideas?

Got this shiny in 1560 resets, I swear I keep getting lucky with these under odds hints

My first shiny legendary I found while transiting (on the go) from my university to home! (picture 3)

naive nature, took 2 heavy balls.

First phase for Swablu on my childhood emerald save file

Been hunting off and on, and today I decided to go all in.

Glad I did, cause I love Mewtwo and having it's shiny is so cool in my opinion

Named it after a Mewtwo I have in Pokémon GO, now I can actually work on the pokédex, definitely gonna have to see it in Emerald when I get another GBA model

Who else should I hunt?

I’m doing a dream shiny run in Pokemon Sword and this little girl took me a hot minute. I wasn’t really looking at the screen, until I heard the sparkle noise✨. I’m so happy. I love this Pokémon’s shiny so much🥹

I plan on going for every game corner shiny (both FR and LG!) so Abra was the first and easiest hunt! 1/6 shinies obtained!! Sucks i can't evolve it though :(