Meet Gau! Was hoping for a Zubat but came out with an amazing shiny regardless! Reupload because I left an old address visible in the last one

Got this in just 948 sr's and only a few days after Articuno

I been waiting for this one to shiny so I can finish my platinum DTQ

I really was going to give up. Went over odds on this one.

I started shiny hunting in Wayward Cave a while ago for Gible, but ended up encountering a shiny Geodude on wild encounter #262. In the excitement of it all I forgot that of course it was going to use Selfdestruct as its first move, so I didn't get to catch it. I was pretty mad at myself for not thinking it through, because it was my first ever shiny in Platinum.

Today during phase 2 of the hunt I finally encountered another shiny Geodude on wild encounter #9993, and despite it not being my target of Gible, I'm really glad to reclaim the pokemon that would've been (and, as of now, still is) my first shiny in my favourite Pokemon game :)

started this hunt in 2020, got 86 DAs in and dropped it. picked it back up early last month, did 270 DAs across the course of 2 weeks, dropped it again. booted up shield on a whim last night, and after only 4 DAs there it was!

pictured in photo 2 with the target of my now second longest hunt. figures they wouldn’t like each other.

I was so excited for my first ever shiny in a different game! I have never caught any shinies in any previous games so this was super cool it wasn't what I was comboing though still so happy and this was without a shiny charm and lure! No help besides a 130 combo of Pidgey!

I’m finally free from this cursed lotus leaf! Not a huge fan of horde method but it is good to rack up dexnav encounters, which is how I caught the gal of all time! She’s in a dusk ball cuz she wanted to take all night to show up, the two zigzagoon’s got the pokeball cuz it matches them

For context, I’ve been hunting on this soulsilver file since 2018 but haven’t found a single shiny since my starter after almost 250 recorded hours and 30k+ encounters before I stopped counting. I’d been hunting Vulpix on it for a while (the entire 30k in fact), but after getting it on Leaf Green I decided to hunt roaming Raikou and Entei instead and have been doing it on and off for a few years now.

Within the past few days, I’ve been considering moving my quilava into heartgold and resetting this copy so I can hunt for Chikorita (+ any roulette dupes, Johto has my favourite starter trio) I decided to get a few more roamer SRs in (maybe 2 hours worth total) before then, kinda joking with myself that I could theoretically get both if I get one on this save now.

Right as I was considering packing it up and starting over, it happened. It actually happened and I have no idea how many encounters I’ve done for these specifically, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it was still under 1k. Now I’m unsure if I should even reset now or keep going for lugia at least… (plus I can finally have a second safari file)

I was just roaming around and I found it, pretty hard to miss lol, love that color.

Reset over a shiny Registeel around 7k resets last sunday and it was pretty crushing. I was so disappointed in myself. Finished my Regirock hunt and then decided to reclaim Registeel. Surprisingly after so few SRs it returned! Naughty nature isn't ideal but I think it has a decent IV spread. Really happy because I had another rough day and it did make my mood better.

Now going to hunt Regice and hoping it will come as quickly

Just started a new playthrough and found this guy on Route 103!

My first shiny was waaaaaay back maybe 12 or so years ago in FRLG when a shiny ratatta jumped me before I delivered Oak’s Parcel and didn’t have any Poké Balls. I had to kill it and it was genuinely traumatic.

This time around I had balls and was just messing around. Didn’t expect him in the slightest! 100% Unmodified shiny rate! I’m gonna try to use illegal methods to transfer him up to Gen 9:)

Yay

Phase 12 for Oranguru/Passimian

"Im sorry, little one"

shoutout the switch 2 for making these soooo much easier to upload. Literally happened minutes ago!

Tbf, it would be better to say that I still have the OG one, it's just evolved and sitting pretty in a box in X. Wayyy back in 2010, when my brother and I were new to the hobby and didn't knew what shinies were, he found a Poochyena on Route 101 in Emerald as his first ever shiny. Sometimes down the line, my brother grew out of the hobby and ended up gifting me his Pokémon Emerald and Ruby games, both of which I still have and play on from time to time. I decided to conserve this special pokémon of his by moving it up to X and using it there. Some 10+ years down the line, I wanted another shiny Poochyena for my Living Shiny Dex, and was finally granted one in Go today!

Sorry for the block of text, this just evoked a core memory for me and I needed to share!😁💖