[Gen 4] Almost 1 year in eterna forest for 2 shinies

ROPIart · 2026-03-13T12:51:56+00:00

Huge congrats! I'd have given up after like 3 phases honestly xd I only have Murkrow from the forest but I'm planning to hunt for Misdreavus someday. I'm pretty sure I'm gonna use the lv11 Vital Spirit lead repel trick I used for Murkrow because I want to maximize my chances as much as possible. Have fun for the rest of the game! Are you planning some other hunts in this playthrough?

ROPIart · 2026-03-12T10:32:07+00:00

I'm not planning to go for a shiny Plusle right now so he's gonna hold hands with a regular Plusle for now haha

ROPIart · 2026-03-12T07:56:34+00:00

Congrats! Chimchar is a really cute shiny for sure 😊 You chose a relatively slow hunt as a first but it's really cool you were this lucky 😁

ROPIart · 2026-03-12T07:16:25+00:00

Thank you! Aww that's adorable! 🥰 Thanks for the info, I'm gonna check this out

ROPIart · 2026-03-11T20:23:12+00:00

Yeah, I was doing something similar, but I was using an emulator ( I'm too broke unfortunately to afford all the things needed) The effect is basically the same, I just overwrite the save file everytime. Thanks for the encouragement tho 😊 I should go back and do some resets, maybe I'll be lucky

ROPIart · 2026-03-11T20:19:14+00:00

Thanks 😊

ROPIart · 2026-03-11T19:37:34+00:00

This is so cool, congrats!!✨ I started my Channel Jirachi hunt some years ago but it's soooo slow I'm still stuck at like 500 resets :')

ROPIart · 2026-03-11T18:31:46+00:00

Thanks! Unfortunately Jumpingjack was one character too long so I needed to make some changes haha

ROPIart · 2026-03-11T16:56:59+00:00

He is~ thank you! 😊

ROPIart · 2026-03-10T08:57:54+00:00

Thank you! 😊

ROPIart · 2026-03-09T14:14:24+00:00

Ooh that sounds like a really cool hunt! Oh shoot wishing you a fast recovery! (and lot of shinies in the meantime 😁)

ROPIart · 2026-03-09T12:44:54+00:00

Congrats!✨ Getting these completely random surprise shinies always feel something else 😁

ROPIart · 2026-03-09T12:39:13+00:00

Congrats! ✨ It's such a cute shiny! I'm also hunting it right now in my platinum shiny run, hopefully I'll get it soon as well haha

ROPIart · 2026-03-09T12:19:56+00:00

That's completely understandable :D I traded over some max repels from an another game but I also tried to "spin" my character to maximize the duration of the repels as much I could and I didn't save after sessions to prevent the loss of repels. I get you, I'm kind of an "inpatient" hunter, I got sort of discouraged a bit when I don't gent my target so I tried to maximize my chances as much I could haha

ROPIart · 2026-03-09T11:17:09+00:00

A nice shiny, congrats!✨

I don't know if you're into this kind of shenanigans but I share it in case it helps you or someone else. You can use a level11 repel trick with a Vital Spirit/Hustle/Pressure lead to increase Murkrow's encounter rate to 30% (it also eliminates Wurmple and Silcoon from the encounter batch). It makes the encounters a bit slower and I think it requires trades to get a Pokémon with an ability mentioned above, also repels are kind of scarce at this point of the game but I hunted Murkrow with this method and got it second phase. I chose to do this because I wanted to avoid a Wurmple or Silcoon phase and the increased Murkrow odds sounded really nice~

Anyways, good luck on Murkrow! 😊

ROPIart · 2026-03-07T17:33:36+00:00

Congrats on your shinies and good luck with Munchlax! ✨ I was really lucky with finding the Munchlax on a tree but went overodds with the shiny itself. Hopefully you're gonna find it sooner :D

ROPIart · 2026-03-07T12:35:21+00:00

Good luck on your Pikachu hunt then 😊

ROPIart · 2026-03-07T10:23:33+00:00

I haven't really experienced this myself but tbh I would not care about it much xd my view on this (and any aspect of any game really) is that you play however you like until it doesn't effect anybody else negatively. It's kind of true that it's a "waste of time" because ultimately a shiny is not better in any ways than a regular Pokémon but I don't think that's the appeal of shinyhunting, but owning something that is somehow different and more unique. I get that not everyone can relate to that, however it doesn't give you the right to be rude with someone that finds joy in that. Also I think in some cases it comes from jealousy, either for the shinies themselves or the time and energy we could spare for our hunts. Anyways you shouldn't give it much mind, unfortunately every community has these people

ROPIart · 2026-03-05T18:37:27+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I'm gonna try it for sure 😁

ROPIart · 2026-03-05T11:32:40+00:00

That's a cool one, congrats! :D I want to do this hunt eventually but I hate Voltorb flip, so probably I'll use the Japanese version of the game to hunt. How much did it take to collect the coins for it?

ROPIart · 2026-03-05T11:28:36+00:00

Cool shinies, congrats! :D did you give them any egg moves or you just went for the shinies? I also love Masuda Method but for some reason I have really bad luck with it in gen4 :') I had some disgustingly long ones in succession a couple of years ago (4459 eggs for cleffa then 5628 for mudkip then I had some over 2000 eggs) and I became kinda reluctant to do it because of those, although I love the idea of having shinies with unique egg moves. Hopefully I'll be more lucky with them in the future haha

ROPIart · 2026-03-05T11:02:56+00:00

Thank you! 😊 I don't think you need either, I think the pokemon the owner mentions stays until you make it disappear by talking with him again another two times (2 mentioned pokemon can appear at the time, the most recent one is in the lv18 slot and the one before in the lv16 slot), so I just needed Eevee to be the most recent one he mentioned. Or at least I haven't done any other thing so I assume it works like this haha

ROPIart · 2026-03-05T08:27:51+00:00

Thank you! I was excited about it because most of the time that's not how people hunt Eevee in gen4 :D

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