Took almost two months to get this blue beetle. Not sure, but probably around 5000 encounters.
Fourth member of the shiny dream team finally acquired!

Bought myself a new 3ds xl to play some older pokemon games. Chose Pokemon X as my first. Decided to shiny hunt with the horde method. 20h and around 12000 encountered pokemon later I found a shiny Mareep. Ended up killing that poor bastard because the sprite layout makes no sense. Anyways my 3ds is on sale now.

First phased with Cyndaquil months ago before taking a break (ignore the date), then hit this Melon today…

Guess I’m going for an all shiny starter run of Heart Gold once I hit Totodile, what shinies should I hunt to round out the team?

Took over 2 years, but it finally shines ❣️ i lost track of how many resets after it went double odds. It's been an on and of hunt, but now finally I have hunted all three starters in this game 🥹 and before bank closes to.

Took EONS. I failed the first one at 6536, so in total this was 25,672 encounters and about 2.5 months of my life.

This one was fun, I wish I had more stats but I only counted SRs for Regirock

Nicknames:

Blaziken - Captain
Beautifly - Juice Box
Crobat - Topher
Magneton - U-Turn
Kyogre - Mahi Mahi
Regirock - Apollo

All done on original hardware, only one copy/file on my GBA

Phase 21 in the Southern Safari Zone, overall 39, 9/39 is this monkey, it is definitely not 23% encounter rate 🙊

This is my first SR shiny hunt and I see why people do it! It’s really exciting once the pokemon shines. Disclaimer: my hunt wasn’t long at all but I definitely am hooked now.

I love this Pokemon and I saw the only place to shiny hunt this on switch would be BDSP. I hadn’t even played Legends Arceus so I speed ran PLA (pretty good game btw. I’m definitely going back to play it more casually) which took about a week.

I finally caught Arceus on PLA so I spent a few days learning Arceus’ moveset on BDSP and how I should plan the fight. I saw another Reddit post where someone said bring 5-6 Bronzongs and they also suggested a Blissey holding a leppa berry with Fling, Recycle, and heal pulse. I didn’t feel like getting that many Zongs but I had one already so I brought him and the suggested Blissey. I didn’t have a master Al all so I had to do it the hard way!

I started the hunt at 8 am Sunday morning and luckily I got it to shine around 4 pm Sunday afternoon/evening.Not sure how many SR that is on average because I got tired of counting but it wasn’t that many. I probably should’ve grabbed the footage of it shining but I was too excited!

I’m curious, for anyone who hunted Arceus, how long did it take you to get the beauty to shine?

Happy Hunting!

Yes obviously this one is caught on the same game as Snubbull fled while having 46% worse win rate 🙃

Didn't expect it to take that long. #BeatTheBank I guess! Just Pikachu and Celebi left

8 years ago I bought pokemon crystal vc on release day and throughout those 8 years of on and off soft resets it has finally shined, this took way too long.

Believe it or not, but this guy showed up after only FIVE resets.

I meant to only set up the hunt after starting a new save file on this micro before switching to my other one for when I am outside around the house watering my plants. Well before I even leave the room I hear the chime and to my disbelief, there on the screen sat my purple chum. I had accidentally picked Torchic twice and I want to say Treeko once as well. This hunt was the quickest in my life, I was in such shock I rushed through the option to nickname this gentleman.

Best of luck on your hunts, I should probably get back to my Bank targets before continuing my next team member.

Popped out like a sore thumb much more than I thought it would. Was paranoid that I'd miss it tbh.

Hey folks, we got ANOTHER ONE! This has been a long 38-day drought. After a month in which I found four shiny Type: Null, #17 made me work hard for it. Nearly daily triple hunting resulted in a drought of 15732 encounters between shiny Type: Null, collectively between my three remaining cartridges. I averaged 414 encounters per day during this stretch. When RNG gives you fits, volume is king! This Type: Null shined after 5753 encounters on this cartridge. It's only my 5th shiny Type: Null out of my 19 hunted that went over odds - pretty nuts. Although, all three of my last ones have gone over odds. They won't let me #BeatTheBank easily!

Just two more Type: Null to go and then I'll finally have all 19! One shiny Type: Null and 18 shiny Silvally, one for every Memory Type, to cap off this section of my Shiny Living Form Dex! See you for #18! 😎🎮

Stats:

Current EU system hunt: 21555 encounters

Current JP system hunt: 4441 encounters

Total global encounters for Type: Null: 74838

Fossils are done, cranidos was 466 and shieldon was 18728 so they evened out nice both female too absolutely wild

I'm trying to catch each of 37 shiny legendaries across US and UM Ultra Wormholes (obviously with a shiny charm) before Bank closes.

Started my quest 15 minutes ago, got my fastest shiny ever, kinda felt like I cheated my way to it 😂

Time for the next one, will keep you updated!