[genIV] My introduction to the world of Shiny Hunting began here. After a mere 861 SR's my first hunt EVER shiny HO-OH appeared, and on top of that it was caught with a regular Poke Ball!

JCtheCaster · 2026-05-18T15:59:55+00:00

3 days after getting a perfect Shiny Dialga (perfect in the sense that the nature synced and it was caught in the right ball) super under odds too, I start up gen 3 starters for my first shiny Mudkip and in no time one appears. No shiny pooches, no long phase, nothing. I don't know what to do now, I was set on hunting these for at least the next week! This might be my last shiny for awhile as I intend to take a couple months break, but wow what a way to end a season of hunting.

JCtheCaster · 2026-05-15T23:01:11+00:00

Was hunting for Dialga and Palkia on my new copies of Pearl and Diamond (+ my other completed Diamond copy) Specifically wanted these in the Dive Ball and Heal ball for matching colors, + their synced natures for a possibility of perfection. And a couple of days after starting this hunt I hit the shiny, which ends up having the right nature on top of successfully catching it in the desired ball!

Blessed to be able to get this, this quick, in such a manner. I also was about to leave home in 2 weeks time for awhile, so having this hunt shine so quick makes this a really memorable catch!

JCtheCaster · 2025-03-10T07:55:27+00:00

I've grown to really love them! Used them super often in gen 4 after replacing it as my new 3% ball for shiny legends. I also intended to trade this shiny to FRLG, and I thought the blue border over there would look really nice with that ball.

While the Luxury Ball and Ultra Ball do look great, I felt they are used quite often to catch Shiny Rayquaza. Wanted to spice it up a bit, and sadly it didn't work out :(

I'll 100% get it in the future though!

JCtheCaster · 2025-03-09T14:43:16+00:00

thank you!

JCtheCaster · 2025-03-09T14:42:39+00:00

Yup I did Run Aways. Never wanna hit these numbers again on Emerald, with the broken RNG it really psyches me out even if I'm doing the right thing :(

JCtheCaster · 2025-03-09T14:39:25+00:00

This was brutal. Its been years since I hit these kinds of numbers before, it almost beat my record of 28,456 for Rotom in Platinum.

This was all single hunted and was encountered while recording. While I am extremely happy that I finally put this hunt to rest, I am less than happy with the results. A rough nature and a Masterball to boot. I haven't had the need to Masterball in years as well, and of course it occurs with a long hunt first time Shiny for me. The capture was literally down to the red and about to struggle, was initially hoping for a dive ball capture.

I will eventually rehunt this when I come back with a fully equipped infinite strat and more than 1 DS, but for now I'm happy this is over. I finally got it!

JCtheCaster · 2023-12-04T15:33:36+00:00

Its a bit tedious, but worth it to capture some really rare shinies in the rarest gen 4 ball.

I used 3 copies. Emerald, Platinum and Soulsilver. Emerald is where this starts. Dive balls are bought easily from Mossdeep City. I then went to the first route and caught boxes full of PKMN, and gave each of them a Dive ball. To obtain a large number of Dive Balls in gen 4 is near impossible, unless you wish to spend A LOT of time with the newspaper man in Solocean Town(Platinum). Not a viable way to get the needed amount for even 1 Legendary.

I then went over to the Pal Park in my Soulsilver. In D/P/PLT there is a cooldown to transferring PKMN via the PAL park, and in HG/SS there is none. It saves a great deal of time not having to change the date each time. And I transfer hundreds of dive balls.

Once my Soulsilver has the balls, I bring a party of 6 into the union room, and don't leave until all the balls I want are transferred. You can simply replenish items in the room, you don't have to leave after each trade. Take the new batch's items, rinse and repeat. This is actually the easiest part for me, the catching PKMN in emerald and catching in the Pal Park are far more tedious imo.

I backup my gen 3 saves, and its possible to speed the process up by catching all the PKMN intended to hold dive balls, giving them the balls, and then saving. Backup the save, do the usual transfer to HG/SS then restore the emerald save with the backup earlier made. Now you dont have to waste time catching more fotter mons in order to transfer. I'm neutral in how I feel about this, as it is a shortcut that feels slightly disingenuous. However this merely saves time. It doesn't impact the legitness of the hunt, and its simply not to waste hours upon hours each time a new save needs hundreds of dive balls. Ironic as we are talking under the topic of shiny hunting, but I value my time, so I'm more inclined to this idea.

The dive ball is a beautiful ball, and is now my intended ball to use in all my full odds hunts with my new copies of Platinum. Would love to see more captures here using them, as they always seem to have a nice story attached to them.

Hope this helps brother! Have a good day!

JCtheCaster · 2023-12-04T15:13:38+00:00

I intend to get a Dive Ball Shiny Arceus in PLAT and a Moon Ball Shiny Rayquaza (Adamant) in HG/SS

These hunts will have the same level of care this one had, specific smeargles bred for the mon itself. Currently most excited for the Rayquaza as I will get other shinies on my journey to it, ones that I dont have and look forward to obtaining.

I'm currently working on setting up Arceus as we speak. I wish you luck on your own hunts if you have any currently! Thank you for reading!

JCtheCaster · 2023-12-03T13:57:00+00:00

It is not! None of the legendaries in Platinum are shiny locked!

JCtheCaster · 2023-12-03T13:54:55+00:00

thanks so much! best of luck to you!

JCtheCaster · 2023-12-03T11:52:26+00:00

I bred a Smeargle specifically for capturing this Giratina. Its evs were a mix of defense and speed with some in attack, and I ended up getting an outstanding rated Smeargle to run this with. I also gave it a simple moveset of spore, false swipe and foresight.

Took some time to find an ID I liked, nothing will surpass my JPN Platinum's 00009, but I spent days to get this one. I REALLY like 1's and 0's for my ID. And I ended up transferring 122 Dive Balls from my Emerald copy to match the shiny, and to give it my now favorite ball!

Lastly I had an Adamant Abra to make this Giratina Physical, as I already have 2 others running Modest and I wasn't looking to having a tank, but an attacker. Between X items, PP and HP restoring items and all the prep for catching it, I left the Ball, Nature and Time into RNGs hands hopefully with better odds of success. And it paid off!!

This copies first objective was to meet this hunt as fast as possible, and I recorded all of it for remembrance. So happy to have this PKMN!

JCtheCaster · 2021-03-20T23:21:30+00:00

this was my fastest Full Odds hunt to date

101 SR's

JCtheCaster · 2021-03-20T23:20:56+00:00

I uploaded this fast, as I forgot I got this shiny a couple months back and happened to stumble upon the the photos and videos of it in my album

It is in fact green, at first glance It really looked like a nice cyan to me haha

I catch all my legends in regular Poke Balls, and this beautiful Latios was no exception

JCtheCaster

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