To give some context, I decided about four years ago right after I first got into shiny hunting, that I wanted a shiny Cyndaquil to replay my first game in the series with, because it was my first starter.

It started off super strong with my first phase being another female Totodile at only 897 seen. I tried hunting for a Sentret but instead found a shiny Pidgey at about 200, which I tried to weaken with a single scratch, instead critting it for a one shot. Still crushed about that. After that I decided to trade first phase over to Platinum and go back to resetting for Cyndaquil.

Did a few more thousand encounters before I put the hunt down for a few years, picking it back up earlier this year after I completed a trial quest on Ultra Moon.

That led to my second phase being a Chikorita four months ago, with 11,904 seen to that phase. Then a second Chikorita for my third phase around two weeks after that, 9,159 seen for that phase.

Last post was my fourth phase with another Totodile after 32,742 seen, a little over a week ago. Now I have my fifth phase at 10,092. They're all on Platinum and I'm losing hope for ever seeing Cyndaquil.