shiny hunts and w/e

Click here for a complete list of my current hunts and shinies! (currently outdated, updating soon) Hi I'm Coco and these are my shiny hunts and stuff uwu My methods include REing, SRing, horde encountering and MMing. My games: Sapphire, FR, Platinum, SS, BW, BW2, XY Latest shiny: Background by tumblr user Emboars!

[ononokusu]

TO CAPTURE A GOD. 

After 11,108 soft resets the God of all Pokemon has shined for me! I am absolutely stunned that this shiny deity has graced me with its presence. I started this hunt back in the summer after finding Darkrai and Shaymin hoping it’d be a short hunt like those two, but this one made me wait a long time. I put the hunt down in August and finally picked it back up today and what do you know it appears! I’m very glad I got yet another point for WSHC on the very last day of the competition. Who knows? Maybe I’ll even get one more!

Anyhow, best of luck on all of your hunts and thank you so much for your support!

[shinypatch]

ive been dexnav chaining for a shiny vulpix for hours, my search level is 300, and im just... so done.

hey, I know just how you feel--it's frustrating and tedious, and sometimes you feel like it isn't worth it.

the thing with dexnav chaining is that it's different from dpp/xy chaining in that your odds don't go up the higher your search level gets. they do raise overall while you are chaining, but it's a static increase.

it's up to you whether you think it's worth it or not to hunt with the dexnav--while it is tedious, you can also get a lot of cool pokemon that way that you can't normally. as an alternative, you can also try masuda method!

all in all, the prime staple to hunting is patience, and knowing that the end result is incredibly rewarding and fulfilling. if it stresses you out or makes you unhappy, make sure you take breaks or even try different methods. no shiny pokemon is worth sacrificing your mental health!

[shinypatch]

guess who's starting an oras badge quest

this kid

B)

[ononokusu]

HELL YEAH SHINY BIDOOF. No, seriously I’m super happy with this shiny. It may not be Buneary but I’ll take it. This is my phase 3 shiny in Eterna Forest and she came after 2,748 encounters, or 5,496 Pokémon seen. Oh, did I mention I got her live? Because I did. Anyhow, it’s off to phase 4 I go and good luck to you all on all of your hunts!

[iraynebowz-deactivated20170615]

Uhmm. Wut?

Doing my runaways for Latias on OmegaRuby and hording for Meditite on AlphaSapphire.

The way the Vulpix hordes show up, I didn’t see both shinies initially so I was like whatever, I already have a shiny Ninetales. Then when the sparkles went off is when I realized there was a second shiny! What are even the odds of this happening?! I’m still completely blown away. Pained me that I had to kill one of them..

Not to mention, Vulpix is the 5% horde on this route! What is life?

[ononokusu]

GUYS IT’S FINALLY HERE! After 9,832 soft resets my shiny Regice finally shown! I’m absolutely ecstatic right now! I can’t believe I doubled the odds and then some in my first ORAS hunt but wow was it worth it all. This beauty is Naive which is quite frankly horrible but I can’t even be mad. I’m just so happy I found it! On that note, best of luck on all of your hunts and never give up!

[shinypatch]

I think that fish chaining/pokeradar chaining/dexnav chaining/etc are pretty equal with random encountering. This is mainly because while random encountering takes (generally) a long time and a lot of dedication time-wise, it doesn't require constant vigilance. You can totally zone out while you do it and it's not very complicated.

Chaining, however, does require your constant attention. You zone out once and your chain breaks, and you have to start over. It's a lot more taxing on your nerves and mind. Yes, technically you can get the shiny much quicker than with random encountering because the odds are raised, but it's an active process, rather than a passive, relaxed activity.

Masuda method is kind of in a tier of its own, halfway between chaining and random encountering. While it does require more attention than random encountering, it also has raised odds. However, it doesn't require as much attention as chaining. It fits pretty comfortably in the middle of the previous two methods.

Soft resetting, in my opinion, is probably the most difficult method because it requires attention and is generally operating at full odds. Once you get into the motions of it, it is possible to soft reset on autopilot, but it isn't nearly as easy as random encountering is for being at the same odds.

And the friend safari... let's just not talk about the friend safari.

[shinypatch]

I'm continuing to chain zorua and I've gone from base level 2 to base level 15 just watch eventually I won't be able to ohko them

[askmyfurryassout]

On dexnav chaining

Yesterday I read about it so I decided to try it out to see if I could get some shinies out of it. I think it DEFINITELY works for shiny hunting because some people were able to find them (even though I couldn’t after a chain of 40 pokemons. That’s also when it broke unluckily)

What I noticed is also a nice way to keep count of your chain and knowing if it broke or not. Probably everyone who chains has already seen it but I will explain anyway.

There’s a pattern. I started with a level 3 ralts. 4 ralts later a level 13 appeared. After that ralts were level 4 and after 4 level 4 ralts a level 14 appeared. THEN they were level 5. Sometimes I’d get the level XX before the usual pattern (4 4 4 4 14-5 5 15 5 15) but it’s usually 5 of the same (I mean… if you have a level 3 it will be five pokemons with the number 3 in their level)

At a chain of 40 I was hunting level 10 ralts. That’s when my dexnav couldn’t find another ralts and it ended like that. YOU CAN ACTUALLY KEEP YOUR CHAIN GOING EVEN THOUGH IT SAYS IT CAN’T FIND POKEMONS- the problem here is that it may break easily as another pokemon may show up while you walk away from the last spot

You don’t need to stay in the grass. Also the pokemon will appear in different patches of grass but that won’t ruin your chain

DON’T RUN BUT KO THE POKEMON and be careful with pokemons that know moves like teleport (sigh all the chains that were broken by that) I noticed if a pokemon uses a move like that after the fight the dexnav won’t find another one. Still if you’re lucky you can move away and try searching again without breaking the chain but it’s hard. EDIT: actually it does break your chain

I think I’ve said everything I knew. Have fun chaining! I’m going to keep trying until I find a shiny

[evanjellicent]

I just went through the shiny pokemon tag and I sometimes wonder just how many people on here would actually be shiny hunting had they not introduced fish chaining, friend safari, dexnav chaining, the shiny charm, reintroduced pokeradar chaining, or brought the odds up from 1/8192 to 1/4096. I see so many people complaining after such a short time I almost feel the new “hunters” are spoiled as hell.

[yonnijuu420]

waaah new pokemon players are spoiled waaaah im a special snowflake who can’t handle change

[shinypatch]

wow you're hella rude and hostile over someone having an opinion about a pokemon game

go take a nap

[carvanha]

"Failure will never overtake me if my determination to succeed is strong enough." - Og Mandino

Well, ladies and gentlemen, dreams do come true. On November 29th, 2014, I captured a Shiny Numel. I had a DexNav chain of 142 for this baby. I refused to give up. The end result is great.

Meet Krakatoa. He’s my Shiny Camerupt, now. He has an Adamant nature, so I can make him a mixed Mega. I have a Gardevoir, Oracle, who was the Quiet synchronizer. I don’t care, I’m so happy! I’m going to train him an we’re going to take on the Battle Maison! Hope everyone has great luck with their shiny hunts! Happy Friday!

-Theron

[shinypatch]

okay I've been experimenting further by dexnav chaining zorua on route 101 and testing the theories in this post

the first thing to know about dexnav chaining is that if your chain is successfully continuing, the base level of each pokemon you encounter will go up by 1 every five encounters

so if the level keeps going up, you know your chain hasn't broken

instead of getting frustrated and restarting my chain whenever I get the "could not be found" message, I instead tried encountering whatever hidden pokemon came up while I was waiting to re-search for zorua and found that if I killed the hidden pokemon, my chain didn't break

sorry if that's kind of confusing but this basically means that you're not chaining on a specific pokemon, you're more or less chaining the whole route and I think that's pretty cool

[shinypatch]

my chain for ralts got to 31 and then it couldn't be found and my heart broke

damn I haven't dealt with this since dppt

[shinypatch]

so I've been trying to chain with the dexnav after doing a little bit of research on how it works and that shit is FRUSTRATING

like the way that your chain breaks is so dumb, it's left up to chance rather than you fucking up and making your own mistake in dppt, which makes it pretty much impossible to get your chain up to any number higher than like, 20

it's all luck-based rather than skill-based

[shinypatch]

AHHH I started hunting in floccesy again with the shiny charm and got this little baby in 405 ENCOUNTERS friendly reminder that my last shiny mareep in the same place with the same odds took over 8200

[shinypatch]

Hey guys, I haven't posted here for a while because I haven't been hunting much, but I'm starting to get back into it, so I hope you all hear from me soon!

[shinypatch]

you guys are wonderful, thank you so much for following me and sticking with me even when I get into a drought and become less active than I should be <3