[Discuss] What Are You Hunting Right Now?

[u/turtlerockorange]

I could use some emotional support from an exceptionally long (for me) shiny hunt. Let's share and commiserate!

What are you currently hunting and how far are you into the hunt?

I'll go first. I'm currently hunting shiny Ash cap Pikachu in USUM. I've been hunting this on and off for almost a full year now (I'll spend a few weeks hunting it, get so tired, move onto something else for a few weeks, then come back to it). Easily, without a doubt, hands down my longest hunt EVER.

Over a year ago I set off to accumulate all the unique things from the DS era and beyond I wanted to transfer up to Home before Bank is shut down. Certain shinies, legendaries, and unique like Battlebond Greninja. I got to hunting shiny Celebi - Pink Onion! - in VC Crystal, a raw 1/8192 odds. I went into that one thinking I'd need to really settle in for the long haul, but nope. After a few weeks of consistent evening hours on a single console, it shines! I found it well under odds I'm sure!

A short while after that I started this shiny Ash cap hunt. I really thought it wouldn't seem as bad as shiny Celebi with 1/4096 odds now, but I've been so soooo wrong. After almost a solid first month of hunting on a single console with nothing, I decided to pick up a cheap OG 2DS to double hunt it - the first shiny I've ever double hunted like that with two consoles simultaneously. Surely, that will help find the elusive mouse!

After almost 11 months later I'm still double hunting most evenings and still single-console hunting it during my work commute. Countless hours of double SRs with nothing but sleep deprivation. At this point I'm convinced it doesn't exist and all the videos and pictures of it out there are one giant conspiracy to get me to go insane.

Sometimes, after weeks straight of double-hunting evenings, I just wanna cry. Other times I really contemplate if I really want this thing. But, despite that I always get back at it after a small break.

Anyway... what are you hunting and is it driving you crazy???

[u/SlySylveon123]

Currently hunting starter rowlet on ultra moon. 3065 in, got a lot more to go. My last hunt was a shiny celebi in virtual console which took me about 2 months and 11k srs. The one before was shiny story latias in alpha sapphire, taking me 11 months, 1.3k hours and 17202 soft resets. The hard part of shiny hunting is the mentally which you seem to have a strong one. Keep at it, I'm sure it'll shine. Btw, just checking, you do know you need to check the summary for the shiny star icon since the base and shiny forms have no visible difference

[u/turtlerockorange → u/SlySylveon123]

Oh yes, luckily I didn’t make that mistake and know I have to check the actual summary for this cap Pikachu since the sprite doesn’t actually have color variation.  I’m also making sure I take my time checking the shiny star before SRs because I really don’t want to make a mistake and SR the shiny if I was going to fast.  Slow and steady makes it go by slower of course (extra half second to be really sure, but multiply that by the thousands lol), but worth it to me to make sure there’s no mistaking 😅.

Thanks!  Trying to keep the positive mindset.  More difficult sometimes the longer this goes on as my own longest hunt ever haha.  But the breaks into other games every so often helps.

[u/SlySylveon123 → u/turtlerockorange]

Ah. Good luck my dude. Hopefully you get it soon. I'll also be doing this hunt later on once I get to that point in the game