Official New and Improved General Shiny Thread

[ysmr97]

Congrats on all the shinies, my Treecko hunt is so dull lol! Hope one shines soon!!!

[Mime Senior]

While EV training my W2 team for Challenge Mode, Subway + PWT and thinking to myself how great would it be to find a shiny, a few battles later a shiny Lv3 female Impish Patrat appeared before me, 1 Quick Ball later and my second ever non event shiny, first with the Shiny Charm was caught.

http://i.imgur.com/iS8tGv8.jpg

[ElectricBassClef]

Thats actually quite awesome, two shinies in so few eggs! Are you going to evolve one to a Weavile or keep them both as they are?

Thanks! That's a good question. I do have a spare Razor Claw from the guy on Route 13, so I could. I think I might evolve her (though probably not him) at some point. Still not sure.

[Earth Wolf-Howl]

Congrats on the shinies!

I have decided to resume my HeartGold starter hunt and my FireRed route 3 hunt for the first time in a while. I have gotten nowhere, but I am determined to get those shinies!

EDIT: As a small afterthought, I decided to train Spectre, a Cubone caught on Seven Island, in order to shiny hunt on FireRed. He won't evolve, but I will train him enough to nearly defeat stronger enemies with one False Swipe. As such, this would be useful when seeking out shinies, as he would be able to lower them to low HP.

[elorasheppard]

Well last night, suffering from a cold, I was feeling pretty miserable but thankfully I got a shiny to cheer me up. Just over 3000REs on route 15 and a shiny Gligar pops out of the grass. Yay! Its not the Sandslash I was looking for but at least I can carry on hunting on route 15 with no worries of getting a duplicate shiny. Its a shame that its blue and doesnt count for the CH though.

As for my squirtle hunt, Im at 2500 eggs now, but I have new motivation thanks to Gligar. Congrats to all the other recent shinies and good luck to everyones hunts.

[dan2point5]

Congrats on Patrat and Gligar!

Only gonna do about 500REs today I think but that'll take me to the 5k mark. Would love for it to appear today since I'm gonna be so busy over the weekend.

Good luck everyone.

[RaichuArcanine]

Thanks for the congrats guys! Lakyn is now a level 55 Feraligatr. I got up to Ho-Oh last night and I really like Shiny Ho-Oh so I'm on 30 SR's for that now. My current hunts are now Ho-Oh, Growlithe and Eevee. As soon as I get Ho-Oh I'll be completing the rest of HG's main game and then it's straight back to my White 2 BQ. Good luck as always guys! =)

~RaichuArcanine~

[Jeppo]

Been MM'ing for a shiny Venipede for ages now. Decided I'd take a break from it and complete Unova Dex to get the shiny Haxorus. Aaaaaaaaand, of course, in my search for a Drifblum I run into a shiny Poke. It was a shiny Vibrava, which is pretty cool. It's Timid (urgh), with IV's: 22/10/25/20/20/15 (urgh), but oh well, I'm probably going to use it and love it in the end anyway.

Hope this doesn't mess up my "luck" for my Venipede hunt, though.

[eleiefarozi]

Got Shiny Lickitung and Shiny Volbeat in Chaining phew

[elorasheppard]

Been MM'ing for a shiny Venipede for ages now. Decided I'd take a break from it and complete Unova Dex to get the shiny Haxorus. Aaaaaaaaand, of course, in my search for a Drifblum I run into a shiny Poke. It was a shiny Vibrava, which is pretty cool. It's Timid (urgh), with IV's: 22/10/25/20/20/15 (urgh), but oh well, I'm probably going to use it and love it in the end anyway.

Hope this doesn't mess up my "luck" for my Venipede hunt, though.

I wonder that too sometimes, like with my squirtle thats way over the odds, I think that maybe my shiny Gligar means I wont get Squirtle this month.....

But congrats on the Vibrava, its a nice shiny whatever its stats.

[Shine]

Congrats to all of you who already got a new shiny

As for me, I'll do 2 hours more of SR-ing Mesprit today, maybe more, but hopefully she'll shine within 2 hours.

It's Timid (urgh), with IV's: 22/10/25/20/20/15 (urgh)

Considering its Attack IV is 10 points lower than its SAtk IV and its Nature is Timid, I think you can successfully make it into a fully Special Flygon

[JAWAYami]

ive decided to put the Axew hunt on hold(hes driving me crazy[dumb green scarfs...]), anyway since its friday i figured ill try sring the musharna...ive never sred a shiny before...hope i can...any advice?

edit: gligar has a little red(tongue) so might count for CH?

EDIT:...realized i HATE sring and switched to reing village bridge(yay finally double grass again!) :P

EDIT AGAIN:...ok i became conflicted because i atleast want to finish 1 SR hunt...so ill push through all the boring...

[Dangertrout]

Will tepig count for the CH? It's nose and tail are pinkish i think. Little cheap, but hey, maybe ill actually finish a CH

yes, tepig counts =)

[pokemon trainer mystery]

So I've been soft resetting for a shiny starter on heartgold for the second time. the first time took me around 8 days to get a shiny totodile on soulsilver and seeing as I had heart gold that needed playing I decided to soft reset for a shiny starter again. I started on Monday and today (Friday in my time zone) I got my second one a shiny tododile............
so I've transferred it to a different game and am now soft resetting again for one of the others hopefully and this time I will be keeping count.

[supersmew]

My dad lended me his HeartGold, and he has A LOT of hacks and events. I will trade all his Pokémon over to hunt the Starters. I'm hoping to get a early one (Hoping for Totodile) so I can train and hunt Ho-oh and Lugia.

EDIT: The game crashes every time I soft Reset, so hard reset it is. But exited to try hunting like this.

[Ho-Oh the Rainbow Pokemon]

Currently up to 570 eggs for Zorua. Hoping that it'll shine soon, then it's off to Terrakion. Might also SR for Lugia a little bit later.
Also, congrats on the recent shinies!

[Royal_Qeca]

Woohoo!

I just got a shiny Metang on my White 2 (Giant Chasm)! Its nature is Jolly and it took me around 900 encounters to find it. I'll post some pics later. Gotta think about my next hunt... probably Herdier.

[dan2point5]

Congrats on Vibrava, Lickitung, Volbeat, Totodile and Metang!

Managed to actually do 1,000 RE's today so that takes me to 5,500 in total. Won't be able to hunt until Sunday now though so I'm glad I managed to do quite a few today.

Good luck over the weekend guys.

[TheMaster327]

Well last night, suffering from a cold, I was feeling pretty miserable but thankfully I got a shiny to cheer me up. Just over 3000REs on route 15 and a shiny Gligar pops out of the grass. Yay! Its not the Sandslash I was looking for but at least I can carry on hunting on route 15 with no worries of getting a duplicate shiny. Its a shame that its blue and doesnt count for the CH though.

As for my squirtle hunt, Im at 2500 eggs now, but I have new motivation thanks to Gligar. Congrats to all the other recent shinies and good luck to everyones hunts.

Congrats on Gligar! But doesn't shiny Gligar have a red tongue?

Nearing 4,000 Regirock now, almost half odds...

[JAWAYami]

after about 500 sr's i decided to wait till i get some of my other hunt targets 1st...