The Apricorn Ball Shiny Quest!

Pearl - 20 - They/Them

[shinyhunterpearl]

Welcome to my blog!

Hi there! I'm Pearl and welcome to my small blog!

What is this blog about?

This is going to be a place for me to write about my current progress on my shiny hunting quest! I'll be mainly writing and showing off the shinies I get and/or my current plans for getting as many shinies as possible using apricorn balls!

About Me!

As I said earlier, my name is pearl. I'm a 20 year old shiny hunter from the uk. I'm autistic and my special interest is pokemon (wow shocker)!

I'm nonbinary and abrosexual. I use they/them pronouns.

My consoles and games!

Currently I own 3 ds lites (black, pink and teal) and 2 2ds' (pink and purple). I have a switch 1 with a pink and light blue controllers and a switch 2.

I own a copy of platium (italian), heart gold (english), soul silver (english), 4 blacks (2 english, japanese, italian) black 2 (japanese), 3 whites (2 english, japanese), white 2 (english) for my ds games.

For my 3ds games I own x and y, alpha sapphire, sun and moon, ultra sun and ultra moon all in english.

For my switch games I have lets go eevee and pikachu, sword and shield (shield dlc), brilliant diamond and shining pearl, legends arceus, scarlet and violet (violet dlc), and finally legends ZA.

Of all of these games I'm still in the middle of getting a lot of these shiny hunting ready.

I have the shiny charm in shield and violet right now and I'm currently working on my ultra moon charm.

Ending note

If you decide to stick around then welcome! I have a ask me anything open if you would like to ask me stuff about my pokemon stuff or just anything in general!

I hope whoever reads this has a wonderfull day!

Credit for the dividers @saradika-graphics!

[shinyhunterpearl]

Shiny stufful! Update 2 - 1/2/2026

Today I decided to do my first hunt in pokemon ultra moon! There's a few shiny hunting events that I'm taking part in and one of them is booster thursday hosted by SolarScyther! Yesterday in the pack he opened was a stufful card that I asked to one of the double points for Team Game (the team I'm on)!

After watching the stream I decided to set up my stufful hunt last night. I got to 316 chained in SOS encounters before going to bed at around 1am. I knew I was gonna stream the next day so I waited off on shiny hunting it untill I went live earlier.

When I went live I got to a chain of 358 when I missclicked and selected the bag and an orb. The stufful killed my leppa berry harvest stufful and ended my chain so I quickly went and got a new chain up.

Finally at 413 seen and a new chain of 53 I finally got the shiny stufful live. It took me 4 hours and 20 minutes in total to find her. I have named her Honey Pie. The stream clip can be found here!

TLDR: Shiny female stufful called Honey Pie found at 413 encounters in 4 hours and 20 minutes using SOS chaining in Ultra moon.

Divider credit to @saradika-graphics

[shinyhunterpearl]

Update 1: Ultra Moon 02/12/2025

Hi there! This is my first update on where I am at with my shiny hunting quest in ultra moon.

Main Story

As of December 2nd 2025, I have just finished the main story of ultra moon. As I'm writing this I am currently watching the credits roll.

Funnily enough this is my first full playthrough of the game that I have finished. On my first playthrough back in 2017 (when the games came out) I got stuck at the electric trail and restarted my game some time later. Then a few years ago I played through the game in italian but I never did the league. I stopped to shiny hunt after the necrozma stuff happens.

I am so happy to have finally finished the game and now I'll be fully starting work on finishing my dex to get the shiny charm and also start some hunts.

Pokedex

My current pokedex progress ingame is 201/400. So I only have half of the dex left to complete it. My game plan is to look up the pokemon I'm missing by island and trying to get them one by one. I'm also going to transfer some extra pokemon in from my bank as I have a lot in there that I could transfer in. It'll hopefully make it quicker in the long run!

That is it for my current update! I'll be back later when something interesting happens!

Divider credit to @saradika-graphics

[shinyhunterpearl]

Pokemon Ultra Moon Plan

Hey everyone! This is my current plans and progress on my ultra moon save file.

Pokedex

Currently I am using this pokedex tracker to track my progress. At the time of writing this I am around 40% complete with the dex.

Apricorn Balls

This is gonna be one of the more harder things I have to do.

How to get the balls?

Play the pokemon virtal console gen 2 games (gold, silver or crystal) and catch a pokemon to put in the pc.

Open up the poketransporter and send the gen 2 mon to pokemon bank.

Transfer the gen 2 mon from bank into ultra moon.

Take the gen 2 mon from the box and place it in the party.

Go to GAME FREAK building in Heahea City (which is on the second island) and speak to the man in the picture below to claim one of each type of apricorn balls.

Downside to this is that you can only do that once per save file.

In order to get more I'd have to get up my copy of ultra sun, play the game up to the 2nd island, grab the gen 2 mon from my ultra moon and get the balls. Then trade them all over to my ultra moon and restart sun to do it all again.

This is gonna be painfull cause if you know usum, it is a pain to play through because of the cut scenes but oh well.

SOS Stuff

Another thing I need to get is a havest trevenant to be able to swap abilities with my traget sos pokemon and give it the leppa berry. I'll get onto that later but here is a good video about it and how to SOS easily.

The definitive shiny chaining SOS guide!

Finish the game!

I also gotta finish pokemon ultra moon. I'm getting close to doing that. I'm currently on the last island right now!

My current team for the playthrough is Guinevere the primarina, Frankie the alolan raichu, Lilith the lilligant, Lumos the chandelure, Sakura the alolan sandslash and finally Caramel the Krookodile.

Divider credit to @saradika-graphics