Official New and Improved General Shiny Thread

[Ipodcheese]

Hey do you guys tend to use the shiny charm?
I'm thinking of starting up a RE hunt but I want to know if it's worth to start without the charm.
*May the shine be with you*

[Master 92 1/2]

Hey everybody!
A few weeks ago I decided to complete a living pokedex so can get the shiny charm on Black and White 2. My question is to those of you who got it how you did it and how you kept yourself motivated. Answers appreciated!

Current progress: Caught 112/649
It may not be much but I'm beginning with mostly Kanto first.

After I get the shiny charm, I'm planning on breeding a shiny adamant 31 attack ived Heracross hopefully with the ability guts.

Good luck and congratulations for all of the new shinies!

@ JohnNiles - Thank you! I think I'll use that method

[JohnNiles]

@Ipodcheese: Depends on your tastes. There's nothing stopping you from REing and working on the charm at the same time. It hasn't paid off as well as I would've liked - out of 3934 eggs hatched (all but a hundred with the charm), only 1 shiny so far.

@Master 92 1/2: I broke it up into phases.
- main game
- post-game (including post-game routes, swarms, fishing, and suffering through trades with that celebrity)
- trade for version exclusives on GTS
- breed for earlier evolutions not available
- migrate from 4th gen games (including pokewalker).
- migrate legendaries (and traded for 2 because I was desperate)

After that, I was so exhausted that I took a break before going back to breeding. Currently hatched almost 2200 eggs for a Munchlax without success. -_-;;

Oh yeah, random observation- I am so jealous of the people who can devote most or all of their boxes to egg storage. I can't do it. I HAVE to fill them up with other things.

5 boxes for main playthrough and post-game
1 box for hatched/baby pokemon
1 box for fished pokemon
1 box to hold potential trades
1 box for N's pokemon and some random junk
1 box for Dittos and traded pokemon
1 box for pokemon used for breeding or resulting from breeding
1 box for my high-use pokemon
1 box for Dream World
1 box for Hidden Grotto and trades with whats his name, the celebrity
4 boxes, 1 apiece for the 4 previous regions
2 boxes for legendaries and shinies

And that leaves only 4 boxes for eggs. What's everyone else's setup? No need to spam, just put it in your usual posts.

[Lunafloon]

What's everyone else's setup? No need to spam, just put it in your usual posts.

I do pretty much what you do. By the end of White 2 I had all my boxes organised, 1 for N's Pokémon, 1 for shinies, 1 for legends etc. But hatching so many eggs to complete my National Dex has pushed Pokémon into the wrong boxes so I need to do a bit of a tidy up! Planning to trade some Pokémon, like my shinies and legends, to Black 2 when I've gotten shiny Snivy and made some progress in the game. Gives me more room on White 2 for breeding then :)

Back to regular updates, congrats to everyone who's found and hopefully caught a shiny since my last post a few days ago. Can't list them right now because sometimes a girls just too busy! But congrats all the same!
I took a couple days break from shiny hunting because I was feeling a bit burnt out and I wanted to play a couple of the game I got for Christmas since shiny huntings taken up so much of my time in January! But it paid off, first time EVER since I started hunting in 2009 (though I took a hiatus 2010-2012) that I've gotten 2 shinies in one month!

Started my Route 203 hunt today thanks to some great advice! Got a Wobbafett and a Diglett to use in case of a teleporting Shiny Abra! Originally caught the Wobbafett to use but found a Diglett in my box and though I may as well trade her over too and train her up in game (along with my shinies!) in case I get to a route with higher level escaping Pokémon! Wobbafett is just too hard to use in game, but since I caught him I traded him over as a back up! Also nabbed myself a Flaaffy with Static to try and boost my encounters with Shinx, since it's not only my most wanted shiny on the route, it also means more chance of Shinx = less chance of Bidoof.
Not counting so far, even though I planned to... Counting just makes me feel very stressed and demotivates me more than it motivates me usually. Though I may start counting tomorrow, only did about 20 RE's.
Also did a few Snivy's, about 30, I'm really motivated to get it but SRing does take a while so I feel like this hunt may take a month or 2, maybe more, unless I get super lucky with number of resets. It's a bit discouraging, but I've never really had a long hunt, longest being my just over a month long hunt at Village Bridge, which finally ended with Golduck. As for soft reset hunts, never had a hunt reach 10,000 SR yet, though I feel Latias may have been the only close one. Regardless, anyone here who's maybe had a hunt, SR or otherwise, that lasted over a month? Just hearing other peoples experiences tends to keep me focused :D
Regardless, starting Sunday I'm hoping to do at least 100 SR a day! Was originally 200 (which would make 1400 a week) but I feel as though that'll be too much for me, so I'll stick to 100 + as many extra as I can do :)

Good luck everyone on your hunts also!

[Shiny Lord]

OMG I just hatched a shiny Male Koffing after only 215 eggs with shiny charm using the masuda method. It has Modest Nature and has Good Perseverance. Photo 153.jpg

#109 Koffing [Modest]
IVs: 0 - 19 / 0 - 29 / 29 / 0 - 29 / 10 - 29 / 0 - 29
Stats at Lv.1: 11|0 / 5|0 / 7|0 / 6|0 / 6|0 / 5|0

[Cpchris]

Congrats to Cyada on Audino!

Today...Ugh, today...Work. BLEH. I'll bite my tongue and suppress any potential anger at a coworker until I have a better idea of what actually happened, but I ended up having to switch my shift around (I covered his shift, someone else covered my original shift which was a different and better job)...So I was there from 11am until after 11:15pm, rather than getting out maybe around 10 or 10:30...I was kind of planning to just finish a few more SRs once I got home, but after I found out they needed me to cover this other guy, I kind of knew I'd be getting home to late to finish them.

So I did 75 SRs this morning =\ 975 total...Really wanted to hit that 1k mark by doing just 25 more tonight...I guess on the bright side, I still did 25 more than I planned on doing.

EDIT: Congrats on the Koffing, Shiny Lord!

[!jirachi!]

@shiny lord so the shiny charm is worth the time to complete a full pokédex?
how long does it take to complete it? I already have 306 out of the 649 obtainted...

[Shiny Lord]

Yes it is worth while to get the shiny Charm. I've done 2 successful mm's(only one went over odds and not by much) and I've gotten 4 successful random encounter shinies with it(3 of which took less than 1000 RE and all under the 1 in 2070 odds) I don't know if I'm just lucky or what. It took me I think 5 days to complete the pokedex. I just traded over or migrated pokemon from my other games and hatched for lower evolutions that I needed. THe only thing that was a pain was trading multiple pokemon from my White version to my White 2.

@shiny lord so the shiny charm is worth the time to complete a full pokédex?
how long does it take to complete it? I already have 306 out of the 649 obtainted...

[!jirachi!]

Yes it is worth while to get the shiny Charm. I've done 2 successful mm's(only one went over odds and not by much) and I've gotten 4 successful random encounter shinies with it(3 of which took less than 1000 RE and all under the 1 in 2070 odds) I don't know if I'm just lucky or what. It took me I think 5 days to complete the pokedex. I just traded over or migrated pokemon from my other games and hatched for lower evolutions that I needed. THe only thing that was a pain was trading multiple pokemon from my White version to my White 2.

ok but since I don't have much pokemon on all of my game it's gonna be a hard time catching...

[Shine]

I do have the Shiny Charm, but I haven't tried to do any RE/MM with it, so far it's only SR.

Got Shiny Kyurem within 5 days, but for Cresselia, it's almost one month and she still hasn't shine yet XD

2 boxes for legendaries and shinies

I need a total of three boxes plus two rows on the next box, just for my shinies

What's everyone else's setup? No need to spam, just put it in your usual posts.

Aside from the shinies, I usually just put everything randomly, but I put them based on the wallpaper.
For example, Pokemon that looks like they can live well in the forest, goes to the Forest box.

I do have one box reserved for N's Pokemon + a few legendaries, though. There's also one box reserved for lv100 Pokemon.

As for MM-ing, I usually just hatch 5, then if there's no shiny, release them all, then grab another 5 eggs, hatch them, if no shiny then release, and so on. So I never need any box for them. I usually just have 1 spare slot on a box to put the last one that hatched, before saving and turning off the game (I gets tired too you know XD). And I don't have to worry about miscounting, since each Pokemon that hatched is nicknamed with number, for example the first one that hatched is 001, the next one is 002, and so on.

[RaichuArcanine]

Hey guys I'm posting here for the first time since having eight teeth out at once on Tuesday. In a lot of pain but hopefully something will shine soon to make up for it. I'm on 16,500 RE's in the Ranch and have paused my Blitzle MM on Black 2 at 632 eggs with the Shining Charm to hunt for what will be my first ever successful SR legendary-Virizion. Congrats on all the recent shinies including City of Delusions lucky finds. I'll probably go back to doing 500 RE's in the Ranch today and spend the rest of my hunting time SRing Virizion. I'm actually counting SR's this time and am currently on a small 23 SR's. Good luck to everyone including Lunafloon on Snivy-he was my first SR shiny ever and Bianca's talking can get annoying but it's well worth it in the end.
EDIT: As for my boxes set up I have one box for foreign pokemon, one box for my shinies, one box for DW females and everything else is just placed in any box.

~RaichuArcanine~

[2rsa]

I've reached 1650 SRs for Volcorona.My last exam is tomorrow,so after I'm finished with the last exam,I'll have more time for hunting.Good luck everyone! ^-^

[dan2point5]

YEEESSS!!

After 9,349 RE's shiny Mankey just appeared. After 2 ultra balls he was mine. So happy since it was the one I was hoping for the most! Even happier that it appeared before the 10k mark haha.

Good luck to everyone else this weekend.

[City Of Delusion]

._. I'm at about 1700 eggs and nothing! I really want my blue cow already but I just have to be patient which is hard since I tend to be less patient with shinies I really want lol. Anyways, I know I've kinda been against the shiny charm but after alot of thinking I'm finally gonna get it. Mainly because I have ALOT of targets and I want them done by 6th gen but before I spoil myself with the charm I'll be SRing for shiny Latios, The Sinnoh trio, Cresselia, Heatran, and Registeel. I need them to complete the dex and I would just rather get them with the normal odds :] Gratz on Koffing and Audino and good luck everyone

[Littlemyuu]

I got the shiny charm little while ago, got shiny Durant out of it. now I try to get Tentacool, my first ever shiny

[Dangertrout]

ok, i think I have enough time for a quick vote for next month's CH. I'll tally up the votes on Monday and post when the voting is over. As always, please PM me your vote.

#1) River of Love: Obtain a shiny Water type while Surfing or Fishing
#2) Burning Love: Obtain a shiny Fire type via RE/SR/MM
#3) Year of the Snake: Obtain a shiny snake via RE/SR/MM
#4) Happy Valentines Day!: Obtain a Red or Pink Shiny via RE/SR/MM
#5) Couples: Obtain a shiny couple via RE/SR/MM (example: Illumise & Volbeat, Tauros & Miltank, etc)
#6) Grab Bag: Obtain one of 8 randomly selected pokemon via SR/RE/MM (List will be posted only if this option is the winner)

[ChipperDipper]

ok, i think I have enough time for a quick vote for next month's CH. I'll tally up the votes on Monday and post when the voting is over. As always, please PM me your vote.

#1) River of Love: Obtain a shiny Water type while Surfing or Fishing
#2) Burning Love: Obtain a shiny Fire type via RE/SR/MM
#3) Year of the Snake: Obtain a shiny snake via RE/SR/MM
#4) Happy Valentines Day!: Obtain a Red or Pink Shiny via RE/SR/MM
#5) Couples: Obtain a shiny couple via RE/SR/MM (example: Illumise & Volbeat, Tauros & Miltank, etc)
#6) Grab Bag: Obtain one of 8 randomly selected pokemon via SR/RE/MM (List will be posted only if this option is the winner)

I like the Valentine's one, might get me inspired to try for a shiny Skorupi~

[gustavo 14]

Congrats on the recent shinies! Mankey and Koffing, especially, are great shinies!

I myself have just finished up hatching 150 eggs for Feebas and now have a total of 3300 RE's for Route 213. I'm hoping for almost 2000 more before the weekend is over, but that may be too much to aim for. Still, it gives me a nice goal to motivate me a bit more. Good luck everyone, and let's hope to see some more shinies soon!

[Heliotrope]

Congrats on all the many new shinies since I last posted; especially City with his four shinies in one day - you had a 'super luck' attack, City. :P

I've now reached 30,000 freaking encounters in my Heart Gold badge quest... nuff' said. >_>

I'm also at 10,675 encounters in my White 2 BQ, 3650 soft resets for shiny Thundurus, and 555 Solosis egg hatched. I've also gone back to SR'ing for a shiny Kecleon in Ruby.

Good luck guys.

[ChipperDipper]

Wow, just got a sweet shiny Tentacool through a trade for one of my baby magnemites X3 I'm so happy~