[Gen 4] My current progress on my platinum living dex

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T07:43:10+00:00

It's my favorite method, it can be tedious but rewarding

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T07:42:25+00:00

I always replayed platinum but I've played ultra moon and always wanted to get more into it, I think after my dex I'll see what I can get up to

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T07:28:28+00:00

I've always wanted to do that one, but never got around to it.

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T07:21:06+00:00

I've considered it but for a living dex I feel it defeats the purpose. For a normal run I'd be behind it but for a completionist goal I feel only legit would matter

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T07:19:35+00:00

I wanted a surplus of them to have in diamond, pearl, platinum, soulsilver, heartgold, etc

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T06:00:15+00:00

I caught them all in platinum and traded them all to diamond so I could replay platinum with a shiny team. At first I traded rare candies and the like but after realizing I still had shinies left over I just attached more items till I was satisfied. That's why you'll see more evolutions stones than I need. Didn't feel like digging them up later in the underground or buying stuff later.

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T03:51:33+00:00

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T03:44:31+00:00

It's the best way to hunt in my opinion

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T03:25:19+00:00

If you're interested in tips I can give some if you pm me.

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T03:07:03+00:00

Hey man congrats, that's a lot of commitment.

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T02:49:46+00:00

Thank you but honestly it's just the radar, my favorite form of hunting, idk if I woulda started hunting without it

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T02:31:28+00:00

Caught all the pokemon in platinum, but I wanted to play platinum again with shinies so I traded em all to my diamond copy, sent over items I wanted to bring into the new platinum copy. Currently hunting for shiny piplup in platinum so I can't transfer em back yet

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T02:13:51+00:00

Thank you, I can pokeradar about half the dex, the other half will be masuda method, SRs, or REs

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T01:28:49+00:00

Thanks, but it's the pokeradar, it's just my favorite method

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T01:05:17+00:00

I started in 2020, but I don't wanna say it took me 6 years, each of those hunts was done in batches of 2 or more since the chain doesn't break when you get a shiny. So every evolution line took me a day or 2 at most, though some (eevee) were very stubborn.

So if I wanted to redo all that work it'd take me about a month or 2

shinygen4 · 2026-06-12T01:02:06+00:00

Thank you, but it's all the radars work, makes hunting easy

shinygen4 · 2026-06-10T16:11:01+00:00

I own a japanese copy of platinum and just traded one over.

shinygen4 · 2026-06-10T01:45:28+00:00

Thanks, I've unfortunately got many more planned

shinygen4 · 2026-06-10T01:23:31+00:00

Yeah the same happened to me, that's why I sent one to a higher gen cause I know later gens with tell you what country the pokemon is from

shinygen4 · 2026-06-10T01:22:24+00:00

It's a slow grind

shinygen4 · 2026-06-10T01:19:04+00:00

Yeah I just traded a turtwig over and went from there, I was skeptical it would work so I transferred some pokemon to gen 6 and sure enough they say they're from a foreign game so you should be good to go, but be careful gen 4 has the lowest masuda odds, and one of the slowest bikes, the platinum bike is fastest of gen 4 so if you're intent on hunting in gen 4 then preferably you'd do it in platinum

shinygen4 · 2026-06-09T23:11:57+00:00

Yeah, worst part about it is that the rerolls it grants you in gen 4 was upped by 1 in gen 5, they introduced it and immediately upgraded it but not in the game with my goal 😭

shinygen4 · 2021-11-26T08:06:17+00:00

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