Pallastronomy’s Shiny Hunting Blog

Home of THE GAUNTLET (ORAS Professor Oak’s Challenge w/ Only Shinies)

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DECIDED TO OFFICIALLY MOVE THE SHINY HUNTING TO A DEDICATED BLOG NOW THAT I’M ENTERING THE TORTURE LABYRINTH.

Hi! I’m Azure (@Pallastronomy). I hunt weird coloured Pokemon for fun, mostly full odds, sometimes not. I’ve made this blog mostly for documenting my planned journey through the nine circles of hell: ORAS Professor Oak’s Challenge with only shiny Pokemon, AKA THE GAUNTLET. I just got Torchic today as I’m setting this blog up, so the journey begins now. I’ll also be posting miscellaneous full odds finds here too.

Read The Gauntlet rules here.

CURRENT HUNTS IN ROTATION

The Gauntlet Badge 1 (1/16 - Current Target: Zigzagoon)

Espurr Phase 6 (Y DTQ #3)

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these are my cats i don't have a problem

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So my ulterior motive for trying to find this video may or may not have been so I could masuda hunt Sprigatito while going through this list of names to see which one would be shiny.

In other news after only 19 eggs I am now the proud owner of a shiny Scrungodungo

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The hunt for Poochyena begins and the beast evolves

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Picked the Gauntlet back up after a decently long break and immediately got the first thing on the list after an 8 chain (23 broken chains and 3 completed 100-encounter chains prior, 738 total encounters)—close to evolution level too! Onto Poochyena, then Shroomish so I can get a good false swipe mon, and then I’ll probably just be picking random targets until I’ve got everything in the area

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Bongy’s Power

Shiny Blaziken is so good I won’t accept any criticism on this btw. The crest going from an eggshell colour to the pure white with all the subtle saturation changes to the main body is just. Chef’s kiss

(Also nice confirmation that standard dexnav hunts will make the level-grinding part of the challenge way more efficient! Good to know)

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My master team of Pickup Artists has been assembled for HMs and DexNav hunts and I’m already seeing some great output from them, I only had Garbledina and Scrunt for the majority of my last chain (No shiny, but it’s the first that’s successfully made it to max odds and rolled over!) and still got good item hauls. Here’s hoping this is basically free money now that the gang’s all here.

I think I’m finally getting used to doing grass DexNav repelless, I’m saving everything I have for the upcoming cave hunts before badge 2, especially since I need to brace for potentially losing multiple things in there (Geodude may have self-destruct/explosion depending on level and I don’t have access to damp and idk if I’ll get mean look on Zubat in time for Abra or not)

Fuck it

We ball

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About to grab the Zigzagoons. Bongy grows more powerful.

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And now, with all the buildup, here’s the first official Gauntlet shiny, just a day after ORAS’s 10th anniversary: Shiny Torchic after 2216 SRs. This file was originally going to be a DTQ before I got this stupid idea instead, but I am probably going to keep the team layout the same: Blaziken, Manectric, Flygon, Absol, Zangoose, Walrein. And they’re all going to end up with Project Moon names, if this is any indicator.

Now it’s time to speedrun to Petalburg woods, grab the EXP Share, snag some (relatively) high-levelled Zigzagoons for pickup via dexnav, and then get started on the hunts, probably for Zigzagoon itself first

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THE GAUNTLET: OFFICIAL RULESET

Standard Professor Oak’s Challenge rules

- Every shiny form of every obtainable Pokemon must be caught and registered in the Pokedex before obtaining a gym badge. I’m allowing myself to catch normal Pokemon only to let me Dexnav them and for pickup and HMs.

- No glitches, cheats, exploits, or RNG manipulation allowed.

- No trading with outside games, bar the sole exception of bringing in a foreign Ditto since ORAS has 22 egg-exclusive Pokemon, two of which I’m going to be forced to hunt at full odds anyway since they’re gifts, so masuda method is the smallest mercy I can possibly give myself.