08/10/2024- Second member
Today I started late cause I had to spend the morning getting ready to stay at a friends house, but I did intend to spend some time getting ready for the next shiny hunt- Ralts.
I was nervous about its encounter rate at only 5%, and I debated with myself over whether to hunt through the Dex Nav or horde encounters, since I could raise sirskuit to level 9 to get sweet scent. I figured I’d do a mix methods approach until something worked.
When I got to my friends house, I defeated May and helped Wally capture his own Ralts, and so I was free to hunt for my Ralts on Route 102. It was too early in game for the repel trick, so I just went through each encounter as they came. Encounter after encounter, after encounter.
And then, at last, I found my first Ralts- And promptly killed it, meaning I couldn’t Dex Nav it for easier searching .-.
Back to the encounters… Until I was able to find and catch my first ralts, for real this time. With that, I could dex nav or horde my way to a shiny.
Turns out, it’s still difficult to get an encounter at all. Horde after horde, dex nav after dex nav. I spent most of the day and evening trying to not lose my mind.
I did notice that some encounters had momento or teleport, making me very nervous about what kind of luck I’d have if my first shiny happened to either disappear or straight up kill itself.
But, after about 8 hours and over 300 encounters later…
Sure, she was only level 3 and had a very random egg move, but her nature was perfect and it would only take about a dozen levels or so to catch her up or speed. After all, I spent the last 8 hours battling Pokémon, I was sure I could stand to go a little longer. Her name is Kusco, when it was meant to be Kuzco with a zee, because my friends and I were watching Emperors New Groove at the time of capture.
By the way, my friends and I often do our own things when we’re spending time together. Very much a ‘parallel play’ kinda group, so don’t think it was abnormal of me to spend my day on my 3DS.
Although I refused to continue into the first gym without Kusco, I only used Major in my fight with Roxanne since she was more than capable of winning. Then, I did more plot stuff, saved a wingull, got a letter and parts to send, and made my way to Dewford town where my next shiny hunt was going to be.
Or I would have but turns out you need the Mach bike for that, which is found in Mauville City. So. We sorted Steven’s thing, decimated Brawly while lying in bed, and headed towards Mauville City. And hey, wouldn’t you know it? We have two other future team members waiting for us.
