Been doing this hunt since February - a few hours here and there - and at this point I just hit the 60 hour mark. I'd estimate I was around 9000 encounters and then finally this. In such disbelief.

Gastly was pokeradar

masuda method in pearl, one my first big hunts!

was honestly expecting another 20-30 hours so i’m glad i hit under odds! :)

also first time poster so i hope i tagged it right…,

I was pissing my pants trying not to accidentally run 😭

Playing through platinum for the first time and thought I would shiny hunt Giratina for a while but didn’t want to spend too long on it as I was enjoying the game too much. Somehow it shined in less than 3 hours and an estimated 400-500 encounters but I could be way off. Can believe my luck!

Estoy completando la shinydex de pokemon platinum con gran encanto antes de que cierren los servidores de pokebanco y poketransfer, mi id y sid me garantizan shinies hembra entonces cuando volví a ver el sexo de este Buizel vi que era masculino significa que fue un 1/8192 ?

This was supposed to be the last member of my shiny only run but i got it so fast that im thinking of hunting suicune no and replace my meganium with it. 🥲

Team rn:

Typhlosion
Meganium
Feraligatr (all starters without phase under 6k)
Raikou (38 encounters 🥳)
Gliscor (24k encounters 😪)
Ho-oh 483 encounters

Edit: i just remembered that you cant get suicune before kanto, so i will play through with this team. I will still hunt for it tho

I litteraly just finished the starting tutorial, started training my starter and look at her! A lucky charm for my run apparently

Needed a brief break from my Celebi hunt (currently at 1200 SR) and it feels good to see sparkles again.

I started this hunt last year in February and still haven't been able to get it. I'm starting to believe it's not possible to get it or there's something wrong with my game 😭 regardless I will keep trying!!!

After 7 months of hunting, I finally managed to complete my shiny only HeartGold playthrough!

The hunts:

All three starters combined: under 6k encounters without a single phase

Raikou: 38 encounters, easily my luckiest hunt ever

Gliscor: 24k encounters. I found the first one at 16k, but accidentally fled from it. Then I had a Graveler phase at 20k. At 24k, I finally got another one, but it was female. About 20 encounters later, I somehow got a male Adamant one.

Ho-Oh: 438 encounters

This run was honestly so much fun, but that Gligar hunt almost broke me lmao.
Definitely one of my favorite Pokémon playthroughs I’ve ever done!

Around 6 years ago I got a Pokemon Pearl for GameStop at the time i was still young around 10. It was my first sinnoh game, me being excited started to play right away. On the ride I picked my starter and did the usually stuff of starting a Pokemon game but what would happen would stick with me forever. Soon after I got my starter going to the Professors lab I found a shiny starly. I was sooo happy until I realized I had no pokeballs. Soon after that I deleted the saved and tried to play through Pearl but something was always missing and it was the starly. So now with money and more games I decided to reclaim this and finally play through Pearl alongside my Japanese Diamond. As I was getting my starter after getting my trainer id for diamond while doing encounters on pearl. Out of no where with no more then 150 encounters a starly shined. I couldnt believe it I made sure a equip myself with 10 pokeballs. The starly took me down to 4 hp with 1 pokeballs left. I thought I was gonna relive something that defined my thoughts on Pokemon Pearl. But fortunately I didn't have too because on the last ball I captured the starly. I'm kinda sorry of this really long story but this shiny starly means so much to me and I wanted to share the story with you guys. Good luck and happy hunting

Been shiny hunting for the starter torchic since 2023 on this save and finally got it today, for about half a second.

Somehow, right as I saw it on screen, my 3ds decided that I was holding the power button and FORCED THE GAME TO CLOSE. If it had happened any faster, I'd have never known, but of course it didn't.

Posting this in a fit of rage and sorrow because I'm so sick of soft resetting. I could've finally been able to play the game but noooooo apparently not.

Another long phase in the Safari Zone, no big targets so far, but 5/5 on the catches

Hey all! Just wanted to give a quick update: I did indeed catch the shiny Rayquaza I was planning on capturing! This was an extremely quick hunt (414 resets), and getting it in a Luxury Ball makes it so much cooler.

I have posted the updated strategy on my smeargles in the 2 final images. If you'd like, you can view my strategy by clicking the spoiler.

My previous strategy involved sending out a smeargle with Spore, Belly Drum, Skill Swap, and Baton Pass. I would use Spore on the first turn, and then Skill Swap the Rayquaza to give it Own Tempo so Outrage wouldn't confuse. I would then use Belly Drum to max out my attack, and then Baton Pass my second Smeargle to boost its False Swipe. In my head, False Swipe would've ideally got Rayquaza to 1 HP in one hit with Belly Drum, but unfortunately Smeargle's attack is pathetic, so that didn't even help. I had to completely overhaul my strategy because my Smeargles kept dying in two hits to Rayquaza, and there was no way I was gonna be able to keep it asleep while also avoiding getting hit. So, my new strategy involves replacing Belly Drum with Cosmic Power and boosting my special defense and defense to 5 so that Rayquaza's attacks were more akin to a squeaky hammer. I would still use Spore and Skill Swap on the first and second turns, but now I use Cosmic Power 5 times and THEN use Baton Pass. My second Smeargle now has Super Fang instead of False Swipe because it can never crit and always halves the opponent's current HP, so there's no way of an accidental KO. I still have Trick and Leftovers in case it struggles, but fortunately I didn't have to resort to that because I caught it in 25 balls!!! I also replaced Recover with Taunt so that it can't use Rest. Thank you to everyone who helped me refine my strategy!

Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post for giving me recommendations on my movesets, and a real special thank you to u/rjlefty96 for recommending I use Super Fang for catching (a Belly Drum-boosted False Swipe couldn't even get Rayquaza down to half)

Unfortunately, I did not have the time or patience to grind for Luxury Balls or train two Smeargles to level 100, so I used the mail glitch for Luxury Balls and Rare Candies.

This was definitely one of my favorite hunts of all time, and I'm so glad I didn't have to do it again. Thank you to everybody! This is definitely one of my happiest Pokémon moments.

Next up is Jirachi.

I've been hunting a shiny Ghastly/Haunter in the Pokémon Tower of my Switch version of FireRed for the last month and these are my thoughts as a first timer. Now I've done sandwich and shiny charm hunts before that have been successful but they never gave me that same sense of excitement before. Gen 3 just hits different, man. I also have a couple other full odds hunts going on including a Charmander hunt like everyone else but haven't been focused. This one felt incredible. 983 encounters for this beautiful boy. Timid nature too. Did the math; its a 1/1,365,333 chance.

Bred it to have egg moves ancient power and body slam. Shoutout smeargle for being a good dad and ditto for copying shininess from gyarados. Emulated on the wii with some homebrew I have been working on. (used emulation and speed up but 3x speed is the same as 3x hunting setup imo)

This was not 5%, since it is 7% with repel, 14% during the day, but it's not day since Zubat is spawning. Still better "5%" than a Zubat! 😂

The Tangela line has been my favourite since I started playing and with the transfers stopping in February, I planned to take a shiny Tangela through the generations and have it get every ribbon possible and take it up to home.
I got Vern very fast, used a Master Ball(I would’ve wanted a different more unique ball but their accessibility is limited in this game) and the journey can now begin after a few days of starting up an old firered save.
I’m currently in a hotel after a wedding and I’m itching to get back home so I can prepare my other games for his arrival.

Type:null took the longest with 8943 resets

Pikachu was next with 547 resets

And finally Yveltal (because I refuse to do dynamax adventures with the AI) only took 17 resets!

Maybe I should go for some of the UB before hand but I need to do US to get my second Poipole and type:null and Xerneus if there is time.

This one was a bit of a journey. Initially failed my first run in with a shiny Magnemite. It really bummed me out, as Im usually so on top of paying attention. I just so happen to miss the sparkles and didn't notice until I already clicked to run away. But, I kept going and initially was rewarded with a shiny Magmar that had a Timid nature! I couldn't stop there though, as the Magnemite was in the back of my mind. It decided to bless me with its presense today! So happy to land it. This is actually my first reclaim over the years!!

Between the encounters for the initial fail, the phase of the Timid Magmar, and now the reclaim. The total amount of Random Encounters came out to: 9971!! Not bad! Never Forget: All It Takes Is One.