Competitive Pokémon Shiny Hunt

[Chris]

How to Participate

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This challenge requires you to hunt for specific shiny Pokémon across a range of approved Pokémon games (listed in the Rules section). Once you've found the shiny Pokémon, capture it and take screenshots of the original trainer/partner information and the "first met" date as evidence of your feat!

The target Pokémon can be found in this post and more will be added as we go along. When new Pokémon are posted, there will also be a "hot target" Pokémon. This Pokémon will score you additional points only while it remains a hot target - so catch it fast!

Please make sure your console clock is set accurately before starting to hunt for shiny Pokémon, as we will not be able to accept any entries with a date stamp outside of the scope of the event.


Rules

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• You may use any of the following games to hunt for Pokémon: Diamond, Pearl, Platinum, HeartGold, SoulSilver, Black, White, Black 2, White 2, X, Y, Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire, Sun, Moon, Ultra Sun, Ultra Moon, Sword, Shield, Let's Go Eevee!, Let's Go Pikachu!, Brilliant Diamond, Shining Pearl, Legends: Arceus, Scarlet, and Violet.
• You may use any legitimate shiny hunting method you wish.
• The time and date stamps on the Pokémon's information screen must fall within the scope of the event (Saturday May 18th - Sunday June 2nd 2024).

Point System

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Activity	Points Awarded
Finding a non-target shiny Pokémon	1
Finding a target shiny Pokémon	5
Finding a hot target shiny Pokémon	10
Caught the most shiny Pokémon	15
Caught the most unique shiny Pokémon	20
Caught the most target shiny Pokémon*	25

*If more than one person finds all of the target Pokémon, then this will be awarded based on speed.

How to Submit

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To submit your entry, please post it here in this thread. When submitting your entries, we will need to see two screenshots from the Pokémon Summary page. First, we will need to see a page that shows that you are the Original Partner (Trainer). We ask for this information so that we can match your information post to post. Secondly, we will need to see the "first met" data to verify the date the Pokémon was captured or hatched.

The below screenshots satisfy the criteria for an acceptable entry:

Trainer Evidence​	Date Evidence​

(click images to enlarge)​

 

[Chris]

Target Pokémon
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Dratini​	Fomantis​	Gyarados​	Marill​	Rockruff​
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Annihilape	Goodra	Jumpluff	Sprigatito	Umbreon
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Hisuian Arcanine	Haunter	Kirlia	Kricketot	Vespiquen
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[Lancelot]

This is SUCH a cool idea

 

[Hyoon]

my beloved pink dratini

also a question: what if my trainer name doesn't match my tbt name?

 

[Giddy]

Loving this idea, and I thank you for letting us use other Pokemon games, because the only game I can sucessfully shiny hunt is pokemon moon.
Better dust that game off. haha

 

[Halloqueen]

Not me finding a shiny Rockruff yesterday.

Not sure whether I'll try this since I don't keep my clock synced to real time, but maybe; I've had freakish luck with shinies in Scarlet for some reason. This is a cool concept regardless.

 

[azurill]

This sounds fun. I’m glad I can use legends Arceus.

also a question: what if my trainer name doesn't match my tbt name?

I’m wondering this myself since mine doesn’t match my tbt name .

 

[Giddy]

This sounds fun. I’m glad I can use legends Arceus.


I’m wondering this myself since mine doesn’t match my tbt name .

Maybe would have to do like hold a piece of paper next to the screen? With our tbt names of course

 

[LambdaDelta]

I see gyarados and hgss

so does the lake of rage red gyarados count?

 

[azurill]

Maybe would have to do like hold a piece of paper next to the screen? With our tbt names of course

That could work

 

[.: Meri :.]

Question—in the case of evolved shinies such as Gyarados, do they need to be caught as a Gyarados, or will it count if we catch a shiny Magikarp and evolve it?

 

[skarmoury]

YESSSS SHINY HUNTING THREAD WE ARE EATING GOOD !!!! i'll start right away im so hyped

Post automatically merged: May 18, 2024

just to make sure, will the shiny pokemon change within the 2 weeks? or are those 5 the only ones we have to target hunt within the 2 weeks?
edit: im dumb and didnt read, apparently more pokemon will be added soon!! yippee

 

[nerfeddude]

Ooo I like this idea! I hope my luck didn't left me after I've stopped hunting for shinies some time ago :'D

 

[Giddy]

Currently sos chaining and so far just found a shiny magikarp XD
Still gonna try and sos for a gyarados, but yhhhh

 

[Snowesque]

Don't have this one unfortunately, but good luck all in catching those shinies!

 

[skarmoury]

rn I'm just gonna assume we can evolve shiny pokemon (e.g. magikarp) so long as we catch them in the said period hehe
please let us know if we can't evolve them!!

 

[JemAC]

This is such a great idea for a task, always love shiny hunting. Booted up Pokemon Violet and guess who was hanging around in a mass outbreak

Trainer Pic (not sure whether we need to include our forum username somewhere?)

Date Pic

Spoiler: spotting the imposter

 

[Giddy]

Maybe I should've caught that Magikarp, oh well.

I wish I understood mass outbreaks ;_;

 

[skarmoury]

shiny magikarp (will evolve to gyarados)
shiny magnemite...?? i was going to another outbreak and randomly passed by this magnemite.... and i looked at it and i was like?? why is its magnet black and not red and blue . what

 

[Vhoop]

One down! (If you need me to verify my OT name and ID I am more than happy to do so! Just lemme know)