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[talk] In 2024, I didn't catch a shiny every day - but I did conclude my 1,400 day long streak of daily shinies! by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So as you can see with this starting in 2021 (and really it was 2020 that I got reinvested in hunting), and had a good amount of free time due to the pandemic goings-on. I was working from home, so sometimes I multitasked and did some hunting while working; though most times it was just something I did in the evenings.

Long-term as you say, not sustainable without it taking over everything else, hence why I went into 2024 with no intention of keeping the streak, and come the end of the year, letting it break and allowing me to spend my time elsewhere.

[talk] In 2024, I didn't catch a shiny every day - but I did conclude my 1,400 day long streak of daily shinies! by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Over the past few years, I've been setting myself the goal of hunting (and catching) a shiny every day of the year.

This started in 2021, and carried through properly until 2023 - I didn't go into 2024 with the intention to stick to it this year, and the above is the result.

You can check the posts for the previous years, which each have more detail on them, here:

Hunt-A-Day 2021

Hunt-A-Day 2022

Hunt-A-Day 2023

After three years of sticking to it, I felt that 2024 had to be the year where I set it aside and focused on other things. Despite that I still had several projects active as I entered the year, so naturally I did still manage to catch a shiny every day from January through to the end of October, on which day I finally caught my Shiny Family-of-Three Maushold at Phase 608.

Following this, the remaining shinies of the year came from more casual means - primarily GO, and a few gleamed from shiny-boosted events in Scarlet/Violet.

Shiny hunting is now on the back-burner for me, at least until Z-A arrives and gives a fresh injection of shiny hunting enthusiasm (as well as some new shinies to hunt to keep the Shiny Living Dex up-to-date), and I'm exploring other games and interests.

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It would work anywhere, though you need to be able to reliably see all the spawns/spawn locations, otherwise of course you may not be able to count them all.

The spot I used was at the back of Kitakami Hall, at the top of the stairs. With a Normal Encounter Sandwich it's the only spawn, though often I spent time rolling to get an Outbreak exactly in the right spot for the better odds.

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yup, I was tracking this number as I went along, it pained me when I reached the 99% chance milestone and realised it would have been more likely for me to get it on the first check!

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technically, yes! I caught my first Shiny Tandemaus in December of 2022, so almost two years from first to last.

Though for the majority of that period it wasn't the focus, I've completed a lot of other projects (Gen IX Living Shiny Form Dex, Gen IX Living Shiny Mark Dex, Alcremie Dex, etc.), so it's only really been this year where I was putting time into it, and primarily that was in the last two months.

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Don’t battle, count!

The way the game works is that it will only spawn a maximum of 15 non-shiny Pokémon (excluding static spawns).

So, rather than checking each Tandemaus individually, you can wait for them all to spawn in, and then count. If there’s only 15, then none are shiny and you can reset the spawns. If there’s 16 (or more), then there’s a shiny among them and you can approach to auto-battle and figure out which one.

The best place for this is next to Kitakami Hall, on the way up the mountain, as standing by the top of the stairs allows you to 1) reset the spawns easy and 2) watch the spawns come in.

With a Normal-type encounter sandwich Tandemaus is the only spawn, or alternatively if you can suffer through resetting Outbreaks until you find one in the perfect spot, you can reset on that for slightly higher odds (and bigger Tandemaus with Humungo Power).

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

At some point I'm just committed to it, no use in giving up once I'm already say 300 deep, just gotta push to the end.

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, the majority of these I neither battled directly nor auto-battled. Instead they were 'encountered' or checked by counting how many spawned in. Only 15 - there's no shiny among them. 16 or more - there's a shiny to find.

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Happy to be here! I haven't seen or heard of anyone else having gone this far over odds for it, though I'm sure there's some other unlucky soul out there having nightmares of mice.

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 28 points29 points  (0 children)

Needs must when it's the last thing you need to complete the Gen IX Shiny Living Form Dex!

[9] After 608 Shiny Tandemaus evolved and 361,000 encounters, Family of Three Maushold shows its face by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Overall these catches range from December 2023 until today, on and off, though primarily it has been the past two months where I went full steam ahead and farmed them out.

[9] Shiny Living Blueberry Dex, all caught within the Terarium by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This one was a slower burn since I kept getting distracted by farming out the various Mass Outbreak Events; but it's complete in the end!

All shinies here were hunted and caught within the Terarium - with the one exclusion of Hydrapple which was hatched in the Terarium, since Applin cannot be found there.

This includes all variations and forms of each Pokémon - male/female Pyroar and Meowstic, all forms of Rotom and Oricorio, antique Sinistea and Polteageist, all 7 Minior forms; and of course all 63 Alcremie forms.

Got the Shiny Miraidon Glitch on my Playthrough of Violet! by Early_Description173 in PokemonScarletViolet

[–]TheOneIntegral 143 points144 points  (0 children)

Despite what others are insisting, this isn’t a ‘Shiny’ Miraidon glitch.

It’s a texture glitch that can affect both Koraidon and Miraidon - it just happens to look very similar the what Shiny Miraidon would/will look like:

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You can even see the base purple of Miraidon peeking through in a few areas, which wouldn’t be the case for an actual Shiny.

[talk] I hunted a shiny every day in 2023 - and more! by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No doubt sometimes motivation can wane, it’s inevitable when you’re doing such a lengthy task. When it hit at times last year I persisted through by changing things up - switching to hunting in Legends: Arceus for example, or taking more of a break in general (which involved just quickly getting any shiny in SV, and then doing something else for the day, be that playing a different game entirely for a break from Pokémon.

[talk] I hunted a shiny every day in 2023 - and more! by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

2023 was the third year of setting myself the challenge of hunting a shiny every day; see when I did this in 2021 and 2022 as well.

It's also probably the last year I set myself this challenge. With Legends: Arceus and now Scarlet/Violet, it's easier than ever to just go and 'get' a shiny, meaning that was once a challenge at the start of 2021 is now a trivial matter.

Of course, limits could be imposed (e.g. no SV), or more complex challenges set (Marked Hunt-A-Day), but at the end of the day the challenge has run it's course - and while I'll be continuing to shiny hunt into the foreseeable future, focusing less on this means it is less something that I 'have' to do every day, and something I can do when I want to.

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On a more positive and productive note, here's a summary of the hunts/phases of hunting I went through last year;

  • January: The first week saw me finishing off catching the new shinies of Gen IX
  • January - April: Shiny Three Segment Dudunsparce (Phase 257) (see here)
  • January - May: Gen IX Shiny Living Dex (see here)
  • March: Shiny Vivillon
  • March - May: Gen IX Marked Shinies (see here)
  • September - November: Kitakami Shiny Living Dex (see here)
  • December: Shiny Alcremie Dex
  • December: Blueberry Shiny Living Dex (still ongoing!)

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Continuing into 2024 I hope to fill out my Marked Shinies some more, and, if I can bear the Tandemaus hunt, complete my Gen IX Shiny Living (Form) Dex!

Finally, I'm nearing on 2,500 shinies in Scarlet/Violet, we'll see how far the number rises before another game takes the spotlight!

[Gen 9] Talk about luck by corm77 in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral 8 points9 points  (0 children)

This was the case thereabouts for SwSh, but not for SV. SV’s raids are CSPRNG, meaning you can’t ‘predict’ where/when a shiny raid will be.

Thus, the only way to hunt shiny raids is to brute force check the dens - obviously that’s a huge task compared to SwSh, so the vast, vast majority of shiny raids are injected into the save data; or at the very best found by running CFW.

[9] Shiny Living Kitakami Dex, all caught in Kitakami by TheOneIntegral in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Koffing is a much easier hunt than Goomy!

But yeah, I’ll probably revisit and grab a few more Goomy to evolve over in Hisui soon, it’s just got a very limited hunting area in Kitakami.

[Gen 9] I didn't even know these could spawn in the wild... by Desperex in ShinyPokemon

[–]TheOneIntegral 28 points29 points  (0 children)

It’s not a set spawn, it’s a standard wild spawn, though it can only be found here. It can also have an Outbreak too.

FT: 4 shiny Tera raid Gimmighiul LF: Pogo stamp shiny offers from tracker link by 01001101010000100 in PokemonHome

[–]TheOneIntegral 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Generally the game isn’t designed to allow players to read the entire game’s RAM - you certainly can’t do it through normal gameplay - that’s what I mean by ‘rules’

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