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Nintendo makes best new Pokemon ever, plus also Pokemon Scarlet/Violet is a thing

Posting it here because it's the current Pokemon thread, I guess, but I caught a shiny Arceus in Brilliant Diamond, which is locked at 1/4,096 odds. It took me two tries. Which really sucks. But I got it!

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What a goddamn relief.
 
I'd be doing the same hunt for shiny Kyogre right now tbh but I'm wondering if it's going to be available in the second DLC of SV

EDIT: Also, rereading my post above, I worded it weirdly. It took me thousands of resets, and the first shiny Arceus I found Struggle'd itself to death, I just could not capture the jerk. So I had to keep resetting, hence the "two tries"
 
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Ohhhhh, lol, I'd forgotten your earlier post and read it like you had truly world-shattering luck and encountered the shiny on your first reset. Whoops.
 
Haha yeah, I didn't realize how crap a post it was, but when I posted it I was elated and exhausted from the catch so I didn't reread it like I usually do lol
 
Kazin said:
I'd be doing the same hunt for shiny Kyogre right now tbh but I'm wondering if it's going to be available in the second DLC of SV

EDIT: Also, rereading my post above, I worded it weirdly. It took me thousands of resets, and the first shiny Arceus I found Struggle'd itself to death, I just could not capture the jerk. So I had to keep resetting, hence the "two tries"
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I am all for hoarding master balls and never even considering taking them out of the ol' ball pocket... But I might make an exception if I encountered the shiny mutation of god.
 
gogglebob said:
I am all for hoarding master balls and never even considering taking them out of the ol' ball pocket... But I might make an exception if I encountered the shiny mutation of god.
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When I first played BDSP (because yes, I've played through both versions for reasons I don't even understand), I never expected to shiny hunt any legendary, so I lazily chucked both Master Balls at Dialga and Palkia. I was very frustrated with my past self when that first shiny god killed itself. I will not be making that mistake again (he says, having used his Master Balls in SV lol).
 
The following is a threat for Kazin:

In everything that was announced regarding the new DLC that will be released next week, they also announced that Milcery (and Litwick and Flabebe) will be in a "mass outbreak" event from 12/8-12/21. Milcery evolves into Alcremie. I believe there are 63 different versions of Alcremie. All of them "can" be shiny.
 
I'm aware of Alcremie's ridiculous number of shinies and I'm trying not to think about it, thanks lmao

(fwiw those outbreaks, Flabebe included, apparently have increased shiny odds, so if I can't get the 5 different types of shinies for that line - and their f***ing evolutions, so fifteen different shinies total for just that one evolution line - I'm not going to bother with all the different Alcremie's ffs)

BTW I've also caught 1/4,096 odds shiny Heatran and shiny Kyogre over the past few days, currently trying for Rayquaza. I have a problem
 
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@Kazin This video popped up in my YT feed tonight and I immediately thought of you. I don't know if it will be helpful (probably not, as you seem to be doing just fine running down those shinies!) but maybe it'll be entertaining?

 
Vaeran said:
@Kazin This video popped up in my YT feed tonight and I immediately thought of you. I don't know if it will be helpful (probably not, as you seem to be doing just fine running down those shinies!) but maybe it'll be entertaining?

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It's so funny you linked that VOD - I was actually there for a decent chunk of that stream. I watch Arlie's Twitch channel haha. For whatever reason, I couldn't chat (apparently you need to be a follower of the GDQ Twitch for 24+ hours to chat), so I wasn't in that chat, but she makes videos for YT and you can occasionally see "KazinWho" pop up in her chat feed in her videos from the past few months - that's me lol.

And, er, I've caught literally every shiny available in those games (at least, one for every Pokedex entry, I don't have like all the Alcremie forms and whatnot, I'm not that stupid [lmao I totally am]), so I know all the tricks she talks about in that video haha. Thanks for thinking of me though!
 
Shamelessly bumping this thread because I am attempting to complete various Pokémon Home challenges, and if anyone has a Palkia specifically caught in Pokémon Shining Pearl that I could borrow long enough to make contact with Pokémon Home, I would be ever so appreciative.
 
gogglebob said:
Shamelessly bumping this thread because I am attempting to complete various Pokémon Home challenges, and if anyone has a Palkia specifically caught in Pokémon Shining Pearl that I could borrow long enough to make contact with Pokémon Home, I would be ever so appreciative.
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The only one I have is shiny so I'll want it back (lol), but I got one. It's currently in Home, so will that work for the trade to just do it there? Lmk!
 
Man, I fell off the horse of Home completionism a couple releases ago and kind of dread booting it up again because I don’t have the kind of time I did when I competed the entire dex by trading stuff from GO, lol.
 
Collecting everything in the Hyperspace dex is a brutal grind even by the standards of catching 'em all, and I'm running critically low on box space, so I don't think I'll do that one. Sorry, banana yellow Volcanion.
 
Part of the reason I am doing this is I kind of wanted to "inventory" the difficulty of completing the various Home dexes for an article. My findings will be released at the end of the month, but I can confirm that completing Z-A's Hyperspace grind only took... Well, here's an excerpt:

The best way to illustrate the breadth of this task may be with simple stats. According to Mabel’s Research, since the DLC started, I “investigated Hyperspace” 259 times. So that was 259 runs of that donut loop mentioned earlier. Special evolution items are rarely found during those runs. Theoretically, I did not possess any “special” evolution items before this task started. At completion, I had acquired four Auspicious Armors, four Malicious Armors, twelve Upgrades, fourteen Dubious Discs, fifteen Prism Scales, and eighteen Black Augurites. I had used one of each of those items for evolutions. Speaking of evolutions, I evolved two Gimmighouls into Gholdengo, and still had 848 Gimmighoul coins remaining, so I must have collected 2,846 individual coins. And on the topic of maxing things out, I had 999 Exp Candies in the Large and Extra Large varieties. I had actually used those when this task started! But my Pokémon were all Level 100 for ages, and I literally do not know when I maxed out my candy reserves. And speaking of time involved, according to my in-game counter, I finished the “story” of the DLC at approximately the 65-hour mark, and I saved after catching Meloetta at 95:48. So that was about thirty hours over the course of (let me check my notes) sixteen real-world days.

To momentarily flash my Stockholm Syndrome, I do want to make it clear that the Pokémon franchise has a history as a portable game, and I am very good at multitasking. Whether Pokémon Legends: Z-A was docked or in my lap, this process always included watching a show, listening to a podcast, or sorting through my collection of F-Zero GX MP3s. It was not thirty ($%*^ing) hours of begging to see the next legendary. I was doing other things! But, yes, if the whole of the game and its DLC story lasted around sixty hours, then a full third of my time playing Pokemon Legends: Z-A for nearly one hundred hours was dedicated to the task of catching just seven Pokémon.
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Bongo said:
and I'm running critically low on box space
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And we're getting 3,000 more spaces for Pokémon. Considering we currently have a capacity of 6,000, that is an increase of... uh... more!

(And FRLG support will come with a prize for completing that 'dex, so just when I thought I was done...)
 
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Thank Arceus for PKSM, moving Pokémon 6 at a time from my HGSS shiny dex would have taken hours and hours
 
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