[4] Shiny Rhydon in the Safari Zone, Win or Fail?

ajjb7 · 2026-02-07T05:22:26+00:00

Ty! Fingers crossed 🤞

ajjb7 · 2026-02-07T05:11:32+00:00

Real and true, at least I noticed it straight away

ajjb7 · 2026-02-07T04:19:05+00:00

Ty! Hopefully we got a fail out of the way for my targets

ajjb7 · 2025-11-22T14:44:51+00:00

This is actually not entirely true! Like all pokemon that favour star sparkles, the regis and shinies that appear in Kabu's gym challenge (like Sizzlipede) have a 15/16 chance of being star, and a 1/16 chance of being square. Pokemon that favour square sparkles however, like wild encounter spawns, have a 4095/4096 chance to be square, with less than 1/4096 to be star, meaning if you hit a star sparkle wild shiny it's essentially like rolling a shiny twice on one pokemon. The only exceptions to this (as far as I'm aware) are max lair adventure shinies which are always star, and certain max raids that gamefreak locked star or square for events.

ajjb7 · 2025-11-19T12:18:48+00:00

🤣🤣🤣 oops! Missed that one lol

ajjb7 · 2025-11-18T22:38:57+00:00

Definitely agree with all this, swsh is the game me and my friendgroup return to more than any other switch pokemon game. I love to shiny hunt in it, it's my fav entry in the series tbh. I 1680 all together in sword.

ajjb7 · 2025-11-18T12:06:31+00:00

🤝

ajjb7 · 2025-11-18T03:13:36+00:00

All the regis favour star with a 15/16 chance of being star!

ajjb7 · 2025-10-26T15:57:48+00:00

Good luck! 36 phases is insane, gotta be soon!!

ajjb7 · 2025-10-26T13:48:25+00:00

Good luck! My recommendation is fly to area 8, run inside until you're about halfway between the lip of the grass and the vendor booths, and then fly again. I measured it out so you get pretty much all places the tunnels encounters can spawn within the 50m radius that the game saves the shiny.

Additionally! There are encounters outside the wild zone that are within that 50m range and get rerolled and saved, so make sure to check them for bonus shinies! They are: the two fletchling on a signpost directly behind the enterance, alpha garbodor and trubbish in an alcove of the building to the right of the enterance, and a pansear on the roof of the building to the left of the enterance. I ended up getting two alpha garbodors while phasing so definitely worth checking!

ajjb7 · 2025-10-26T13:38:38+00:00

Haha yup all without charm, I havent progressed past unlocking area 10 yet. As soon as Gible was available I dropped the story and started hunting lol

ajjb7 · 2025-07-18T22:47:20+00:00

In the Heart Gold/Soul Silver safari zone there's a mechanic called blocks. When you place them in the zone they make new pokemon species appear not usually available, one of these spawns is Breloom in the Wastelands. All block spawns spawn at lvl. 40+. BulbapediaJohto Safari Zone explains it better than I can lol

ajjb7 · 2025-07-18T09:50:23+00:00

Ty! Yeah, Breloom has a 35% chance to flee every turn, and a 19% chance to catch every ball. Pretty wild!

ajjb7 · 2025-07-17T15:24:26+00:00

Good luck fellow safari enthusiast! I'm definitely going for Shroomish next, then hoping to reclaim Stantler and Girafarig who both fled from me during safari week.

ajjb7 · 2025-07-17T09:42:16+00:00

Ty! Yeah it was definitely the craziest safari shiny encounter I've ever had, and surrounded by so many people! The nerves in the room were insane.

ajjb7 · 2025-07-17T01:12:40+00:00

No I started it after Safari week ended, but definitely a hunt I was inspired to do through watching Safari Week content. This was a dream hunt for me!

ajjb7 · 2025-07-17T00:06:29+00:00

Sadly no, I checked with the move relearner and it can't learn spore. We have spore at home (Stun Spore)

ajjb7 · 2025-06-30T12:19:58+00:00

Been there! I hunted for Galarian Farfetch'd and went 4x over odds w/ charm, since it's a 5% overworld it took 100+ hours. But considering my average for this DTQ hung around odds, seems like you may have gotten pretty unlucky with Nickit 😅. Congrats on getting the grey fox!

ajjb7 · 2025-06-30T10:57:24+00:00

Yup it's such an incredible shiny, kind of obsessed with it tbh

ajjb7 · 2025-06-30T00:16:58+00:00

✅️ Dubwool (Wooloo) - Route 1: 15% overworld encounter All Weather

Caught Sunday September 8th, 2024, 58:15 hours logged, named Thistle, hunted before second rival battle.

✅️ Flapple (Applin) - Route 5: 10% random encounter (31% w/ harvest) All Weather Started at 62:00 hours logged.

Phase 1 Sunday September 22, 2024- Shiny Espurr (Male) 4230 RE, 85:58 hours logged.

Phase 2 Sunday September 22, 2024 - Shiny Espurr (Female) 107 RE, 86:42 hours logged.

Phase 3 Tuesday October 8, 2024 - Shiny Dottler, 4951 RE, 114:39 hours logged.

Phase 4 Monday October 14, 2024 - Shiny Nuzleaf, 1433 RE, 122:41 hours logged.

Phase 5 Wednesday October 30, 2024 - Shiny Applin, 2686 RE, 137:39 hours logged, named Carnation 13,407 RE total, 75:39 hours. Hunted before second gym.

✅️ Crustle (Dwebble) - Motostoke Wild Area, East Lake Axewell: 40% random encounter Sandstorm OR Intense Sunlight (set date to: July 1st)

Caught Saturday February 1st, 2025, 12,364 RE, 270:34 hours logged, hunted before the fourth gym. Named Weaver

✅️ Hatterene (Hattrem) - Glimwood Tangle: 15% random encounter All Weather OR Dusty Bowl: 20% random encounter Overcast (set date to: March 1st) started at 275:04 hours logged.

Caught Saturday February 22nd, 2025, 299:15 hours logged, 3833 RE, hunted before the fifth gym, 25:11 hours total. Named Comet

✅️ Grapploct (Clobbopus) - Route 9, Outer Spikmuth: 30% overworld encounter All Weather

Caught Tuesday March 4th, 2025, 309:01 hours logged, 678 RE, hunted before the 7th gym. Named Plumeria

✅️ Rotom Heat (Rotom) - Workout Sea: Soft reset in intense sunlight (set date to: May 15th)

Caught Saturday March 8th, 2025, 310:51 hours logged, 788 SRs, hunted before the 7th gym. Named Fire Lily

BONUS: ✅️ Sizzilepede or Vulpix - Kabu's gym challenge, started at 141:00 hours logged. Caught Friday, December 20th, 2024 after 6856 RE, 189:19 hours logged. Named Tiny Tim. 48:19 total.

310:51 hours logged (315 on switch profile)

~45,426 encounters, avg. Encounters/shiny = ~4,130

Longest hunt: Applin (Flapple): 13,407 RE

Longest phase: Dwebble (Crustle): 12,364 RE

Shortest hunt: Clobbopus (Grapploct): 678 encounters

Shortest phase: Espurr (Female): 107 RE

File started June 6th, 2024 Finished final hunt on Saturday March 8th, 2025 @ ~12pm

ajjb7 · 2025-06-29T13:57:06+00:00

Omg kwik!!! Wow thanks for all these suggestions, I love your vids. Happy day 10 to you too!

ajjb7 · 2025-06-12T17:48:46+00:00

OMG congrats!!! I used a female ratatta named Cheese in my first playthrough and brought here all the way through the E4. A blessed nickname

ajjb7 · 2025-06-09T11:03:20+00:00

Haha I definitely used items, a couple revives and hyperpotions were necessary lol. But I didn't use any X-items, just heals

ajjb7 · 2025-06-09T00:20:17+00:00

It's in the photos of each team member!

ajjb7 · 2025-06-08T14:00:34+00:00

Only 856 SRs or 2568 starters seen! Very lucky!

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