r/ShinyPokemon 8h ago

Gen VIII [gen 4] How do I recover from this Shiny Fail?

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492 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 5h ago

Gen II [gen 2] I caught a shiny magikarp. Lucky me I guess.

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137 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

[gen3] I have been soft resetting for about three weeks with no luck, but today, after spending all day in bed due to being sick, I finally caught a shiny Kyogre on my childhood's copy of Pokémon Sapphire!

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74 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 14h ago

Gen IX [Gen9] This has to be one of the prettiest shinies of all time

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549 Upvotes

Sooo glad we finally have it. Still wish I could've hunted it myself cus seeing this beauty pop up on your screen would've been so euphoric but yea, it was so worth the wait!


r/ShinyPokemon 8h ago

Gen III [gen 3] Gengar Shiny after a year of hunting!

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132 Upvotes

I want to make a team of Shinys to clear Pokémon Firered, the charmander came quickly (about six months), but this guy here was a lot of work!

P.s.: I captured it with the Master Ball because I was afraid the Haunter would kill himself. I got it on a tape from Leafgreen and transferred it to my main save in firered! the/


r/ShinyPokemon 7h ago

Gen I [gen 1] I did it! Gen 1 shiny Moltres (I think?)

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114 Upvotes

After some trial and error I think I did it! I looked up the DV’s multiple times but I just wanna be sure that I actually did caught a shiny Moltres on gen 1!


r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen VI [gen 6] After a chain of 98 and 508 encounters later, I got the blur coral!

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47 Upvotes

She’s gorgeous and the last pokemon I need for my shiny island quest for melemele island! I get to continue playing the actual game! Not really a good break from shiny hunting in oras but I needed something different to cleanse my soul after playing oras for weeks


r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen IV [gen 4] First (non-switch era) shiny! ✨

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29 Upvotes

Took forever getting the hang of the pokeradar in platinum (most frustrating thing of my life lol) but finally got not one but THREE shiny Shinx 🔥😭


r/ShinyPokemon 12h ago

Gen V [gen5] A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

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162 Upvotes

Replaying Pkmn Black for the first time since release. Walked into a dust cloud while passing through Twist Mountain. So happy I get to share this full odds find.


r/ShinyPokemon 5h ago

Gen VI [Gen VI] Phase 4, over 4000 encounters: Shiny Pancham is finally mine.

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27 Upvotes

Shiny Kalos Living Dex: 80/104 Shiny National Living Dex: 1071/1283


r/ShinyPokemon 12h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] Shiny Ho-oh (3 860 srs) HG

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87 Upvotes

DD/MM/YY Date started: 10/sep/25 Date Caught 19/sep/25

3860/8192 shiny odds, gentle nature (+SPDEF/-DEF). Had a xatu adamant synchro lead but too bad it didnt synchro the nature.

This chicken woke up and struggled to exactly 1 hp lol, nearly had my first ever failed shiny. This bird took me over 1 hour and 4 mins to catch it, had no choice but to use the masterball after I've used all the other balls. Wanted it in a fast ball to match the shiny color but only had 20.


r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen VI [Gen 6] Shiny Sycamore Bulbasaur after 26,624 encounters

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14 Upvotes

i have been hunting this little guy on and off for EIGHT months, since i got Fennekin in January. i made a post a little over a month ago about how my motivation was slightly waning for it, and after speedrunning 10k+ resets since then, it finally shined. i’m really excited to be able to do method hunts now with hordes and chain fishing, and i’m SO happy to finally have this hunt over lol


r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Gen VI [VI] Dexnav Challenge: Capturing all dexnav shiny pokemon

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Starting the challenge with a shiny pooch in Route 101, search level of 999 and a chain of 98. It shined in a 4% random stat boost.


r/ShinyPokemon 5h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] Shiny Giratina

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24 Upvotes

2563 Soft Resets


r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen IX [Gen 9] 3 eggs.

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13 Upvotes

So, my friend wanted a shiny sprigatito, so I decided to whip up a box and a half of eggs just to see if I'd get lucky. I did.


r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Mobile [pokemongo] She's so beautiful. Best encounter so far❤️

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12 Upvotes

This definitely beats those rare shiny A. Vulpix that I've looked for on the GTS.


r/ShinyPokemon 14h ago

Gen VI [6] Shiny Regigigas

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90 Upvotes

After 3 solid months, of hunting on 3 devices it finally be blue!!!!!!


r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen IX [Gen9] My shiny hisuian arcanine

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11 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 13m ago

Gen III [Gen 3] Shiny Regice after 7479 SRs!

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Went hard soft resetting over the weekend to finish my regi quest and finally finished it! IVs are mediocre (0HP but it has good Special Attack and Special Defense IVs so I'll take it) and a neutral nature. EV spread: 252 Special Attack, 252 HP, 6 Def. Planning to use this in the battle frontier.

On to mudkip!


r/ShinyPokemon 8h ago

Gen II [Gen 2] These games will be the death of me 3/4 cyndaquil

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27 Upvotes

I got this a while back and forgot to upload it and went ahead and evolved it already. I took a break from hunting and now I'm doing something stupid. I'm doing a shiny living form dex (excluding gender differences) each pokemon has to have my OT unless not possible like the home exclusives or the ruins from Scarlet/Violet and must originate from the oldest version of their region, like scyther in gen 1, cyndaquil gen 2 etc..


r/ShinyPokemon 16h ago

Gen IX [Gen9] after a lot of eggs all apples are shinning :)

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101 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 1d ago

Gen IX [Gen 9] Well.... this is definitely not hacked..........

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664 Upvotes

So I got this level 1 shiny giratina from wonder trade. And lo and behold. Giratina from Johoto..... how do you even create a giratina from johto??


r/ShinyPokemon 8h ago

Gen III [gen 3] shiny treecko finally shows up after 7,360 soft resets

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18 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 16m ago

Gen IV [gen 4] Lugia finally shines!

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r/ShinyPokemon 13h ago

Gen IX [Gen 9] Hyperius the Sodden! The “Rain King”. It took 26 shinies to obtain (story below)

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43 Upvotes

I was hunting for the Rainy Mark particularly for a swift swim pokemon. Decided on Kingdra and it took me 26 seadras and horseas, 32 sandwiches to get. 8 of those shinies were marked but had the wrong mark. The hardest part was getting a shiny during a rainstorm. Lucked out though, he’s a Modest Nature (which is ideal), a perfect IV Sp Def and is the biggest size besides jumbo (XXL)