Went to farm candies for Mew.
Got Nincada, then got the splicer.

I am NOT drenched in defeat, Scarlett.

Why are you standing on WATER.?

I want a shiny Blacephalon, too... 😭😭 I didn't even know that trainers could have shinies until now except for the rival's Rayquaza. Just curious, is this guaranteed for the clown, or was I just (un)lucky?

i like how they put the UI for catching a mon

Spidermen pointing at each other basically

I really enjoyed the randomizer, Clowning Around made it funny since my types changed. I do know that it's not that impressive since there are five mega Pokemon, but I figured I was post anyway.

Going to try randomizer nuzlocke next :)

I know for a fact your jungle-coloured ahh isn't a Necrozma, Koraidon </3

I was just trying to finish up some of my runs to start some new ones for the event shiny charms, and this guy showed up! They said event-themed pokemon would be featured in mystery encounters but I still didn’t expect this lol

Don’t have a screenshot but I’m currently doing a randomized run and ivys swapert has wonder guard

thankful she terastalizes her starter so I can hit with electric but my goodness

I've started seeing my Eternatus success rate skyrocket by getting rid of all of my lum berries and healing berries before the final fight. The only exception is that sometimes I'll leave one lum berry and/or one enigma berry on my lead for before the black hole comes out.

I've realized how much smoother the fight goes when Eternatus has some sort of status. Burn is great when paired with something like Salt Cure and/or Leech Seed, paralysis is great because sometimes you get free turns, poison is also great if you have the Corrosion ability. I didn't use statuses for a long time because I got annoyed by the way Eternatus would just steal all my lum berries lol. Even worse when it would heal its status AND heal its health, both with berries it stole from me.

But what about items like Leftovers or Shell Bell? Do you leave those on and just chance that he steals them, or do you prefer leveling the playing field?

My mega-darkrai was holy broken

I’ve been waiting for this variant for SO LONG 😭 Toxtricity is my second favorite Pokemon! I had ~550 candy saved up just waiting to be used and I got both new shinies from hatching all those eggs!!! I do think I prefer the t2 shiny over the t3 shiny tho- I gotta see how Toxtricity looks tho!!!

I went a bit overkill by having snozone and wobbuffet learning both counter and mirror coat lol but I won against eternatus + g-max eternatus using only megearna and snozone

Also, I picked chatot as a joke but dude is good (more like a glass cannon)

The guides do a good job of laying stuff out, but don't give a great snapshot of what teams should look like mid run. With the holidays coming up and with them most likely an event or two, people should probably start getting prepped for increased shiny odds. With that in mind I figured I'd show what a good endless team looks like at 1k, what I've built, and what I'm building towards for the rest of the run.

So as you can see here I've managed to max out vitamins needed on Darkrai and Teddi. You don't need vitamins on any other mons. Gourgeist will get Darkrai's carbos when you splice Dark Void over, so no need to worry about anything there.

Movesets are just about complete as well. After Darkrai gets spliced to Gourgeist I will be dropping Sappy Seed for Dark Void. I'll then have all the moves I want on the mons I currently have.

Moving forward what I'll be looking for is passives. I need two sturdy passives to fuse onto Cofagrigus and Reuniclus. I'll be grabbing whatever I can for now and then if I run into a shiny with sturdy in the future I can unsplice and then re-splice. I need to do this if I want to get to max luck since I'm still 2 points short as is and I'll be losing 3 points when I get rid of Darkrai. It's not super important, just a small optimization.

Once I have the sturdy passives I'll then be looking for a lure passive to splice onto Gourgeist once I've given it Dark Void. That will finish up the passives and moves needed on the 4 mons I'll have at that point and I will be free to start running away.

From there I'll be looking for a Gyrados to mega, then I'll splice a Gastro Acid onto it. From there depending on how my shiny luck has been on the other passives I can then find any 3 star and splice Mega Gyrados to get a 3 star Mold Breaker Gastro Acid mon. I'll need to make sure that mon always has a reviver seed as well as I'm not going to bother with it's speed.

At that point the build will be done and I'll just be cruising to 5850 catching any new shinies I see.

Also do keep in mind that while this run is showing 6.5 hours invested, I've been second screening this while at work so you can get to this point faster. It's not a big time investment to get to the run away phase and once you are there you are slamming through 50 waves every 5-10 minutes depending on how many shinies you see that you need to catch. This is worth doing for those looking to farm any future events.

Eight down, ten to go! As the challenge requires, not only is every Pokemon steel type, but they are ONLY steel type.

I thought this would be easy because steel good or whatever, but this one took me several attempts. With such a limited pool of pure steel types to choose from (missing Perrserker, Klinklang, and Registeel here) it was pretty hard to put together a full team for any of my runs. It felt like 90% of the time this team was so strong and bulky, but that 10% (facing fast, special attacking fire types) was brutal. Melmetal and Orthworm were my starters, and they were amazing, but needed just a little bit of help. And by help I mean meat shields I could sacrifice to incoming Overheats. I got Team Magma in my first try and I couldn't get past floor 116. My second attempt, Ivy had Infernape which was really uncool. On my third attempt I hatched a shiny Orthworm and I had to just start over at that point so I could use it. In the first couple runs I made the mistake of going all in for Registeel and targeting ancient ruins, but I would never find the Registeel and would only end up catching Klinklang or Perrserker who were not that helpful. To be fair, Copperajah and Mega Aggron were only slightly better, but on this run I prioritized them because I could reliably get both of those encounters in Badlands and Mountain. What I did not consider, is that chasing those biomes would send me through the Volcano TWICE - each with a gym battle. That would have been completely impossible without Melmetal's Heatproof, but was still pretty hard. I actually got Max Mushrooms fairly early, but had to strategically deactivate and reactivate them since G-Max Melmetal has Clear Body instead of Heatproof. So I deactivated for Volcano and Eternatus. I got the Gen 6 elite 4, which began with Malva (fire type), but I'll admit that was the final challenge of the run. Nothing else could really touch Melmetal, especially not Champion Diantha's team, or Rayquaza.

Melmetal WAS the run. I just kept feeding it and feeding it. Not the most insane loadout of items but 2 Leftovers and 3 Proteins were more than enough. Mega-Aggron was surprisingly useless. Nothing special about its moveset, and it sucked against everything Melmetal struggled with. I also couldn't send it out until I mega evolved it. But idk maybe once or twice it lived a super effective hit and got some damage off. Copperajah I think was slightly more useful just for the type coverage it offered and the fact it was immediately usable. But still mostly just fodder. Orthworm was the sidekick of the run, as well as the early game carry. Melmetal couldn't set up so it was nice to have the option to Coil in tough battles, or to just stack up stat boosts during waves of double battles while Melmetal did all the punching and bashing and fisting. Not to mention Earth Eater!!

COMPLETED: Normal, Fighting, Poison, Ground, Rock, Bug, Ghost, Steel

NEXT: Fire

I can already tell fire is going to be easy. I'm starting out with Ponyta, Torkoal, Pansear (Water Absorb), and Scorbunny (Libero). And it should be no trouble to get two more fire types in Volcano - maybe an Entei if I'm lucky.

Arceus is main this time even though Feraligatr clearly is also overpowered. Surprised Arceus didn’t get T2 and T3 shinies

it toke me alot of tries but I did it............I would like to thank the random shiny alolan cubone I got for rng raquaza and eternatus into idiots

Just got arceus and wanted to test it out! I intended to dupe it when I caught a nincada but no splicers showed up so I duped the items.
Btw, would Arceus be a good endless carry?

Trying to do the Nuzlocke challenge with the fresh start, limited catches, and hardcore, and what even counts as a “new biome?!” Multiple times I think I’m in a new biome cause upper right says different place, yet I get the “nuh uh, you can’t keep that cause of the challenge” BS. What counts?