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[LIVE] Shiny Manaphy after 1,395 eggs hatched in Diamond (Pokemon Ranger)
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After only 3 phases with two shiny Audino, I can't really ask for better than that. The actual phase luck for this quest has been very good. Two 20% targets after 3 phases each is quite good.
Enjoyed this hunt a lot but I'm happy it's done. I don't think there's much reason to hunt here in the future unless it's for the single or double grass targets.
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A really cool shiny to find in the wild especially in Gen 4 considering how low % it appears. The deep blue is a very nice colour. Hopefully 40% Qwilfish isn't too far away on phase 2.
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It came on my new German copy of Emerald which is helping me learn the language. Very pleased with this find though I'm sure as the years go by and I target the more difficult to find stuff like Pineco and Hoothoot that I'll see plenty of these. It's a great shiny though so I won't get tired anytime soon.
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I mentioned this is in the video but this was a hunt I was somewhat dreading. Miltank can be repel tricked to 100% but it's painfully slow so to box the 5% off my living dex is a very big boost. Seriously happy with this find and it has given me a massive motivational boost to continue getting some of the Gen 3 rares in the Safari Zone over the next few years.
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I really wanted to get at least Snubbull, Pineco or Hoothoot this year. They're incredibly rare in Gen 3 and to get one of them out of the way for my living dex is huge. I made substantial progress this week, crossing the 100 barrier out of 386 for my dex.
You can follow my progress here; docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xi1wQ--DE4x7jBoHQiA5fJem3VLsBN3_ur76-lKccPU/edit?usp=sharing
Sorry it's been so long since my last upload but I have a ton of videos to upload now. I had the mother of all droughts but I have been working on part 1 of my Gen 3 Living Dex video. Hopefully that should be out fairly soon.
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I decided to target this beautiful shiny in Emerald's Victory Road (BF1) with a level 40 repel trick combined with Magnet Pull. The encounter rate drops quite a bit but White Flute helps out. I mixed it up between the encounter styles whether to bunny hop or bike normally. Bunny hopping is slower but the hunt becomes more mindless.
The entire Aron line have amazing shinies. I hunted one for my Ruby DTQ a few years ago but I couldn't pass up this opportunity to get one of the line in the middle stage. Very fun hunt but keep in mind it knows Roar and Hariyama knows Whirlwind. It's a tricky area to hunt in.
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Treecko after 20,550 resets
Mudkip after 21,730 resets
Torchic after 10,280 resets
That gives me an average of 17,520 which is terrible but these are really quick resets so it doesn't matter too much.
These will be staying as Grovyle, Combusken and Marshtomp for my living dex.
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Sometimes RNG is cruel but it's so worth it. Both of these shinies are incredible and I'm super glad to finally add them to my collection. I feel like Ninetales is a shiny/Pokemon that people just love overall. It's so elegant looking and really captures that Gen 1 nostalgia for me. I always used to use it on my team as a kid so it's nice to have one in Silver for my Fire Monotype challenge.
Eevee is up next. Hopefully that's a little shorter...
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The hunt for Vulpix looked simple enough being a level 13 repel trick during the Day to make it 37.5% instead of 10%. Pidgey is 50%, Vulpix is 37.5% and Stantler is 12.5%. A coin flip for Pidgey and something else that I lost 8 times in a row. Insanity.
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I really like these starters a lot. They're among the best in recent generations imo.
It's a shame the game is performing how it is but it's still a lot of fun. Hopefully they can at least do something about the framerate with a patch.
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I have a tradition to upload a last video of that particular generation the day or a few days before a new one is about to drop. A few thoughts and feelings towards Gen 8 at the end of the video.
See you in Paldea!
I found that the marking map is slower to refresh than in the originals. It feels like the refresh rate is lower than the main screen. It meant I had to pause a second before reloading the area. Just found it an interesting comparison to the originals.
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I was surprised this shined so quickly. I really felt like it would be a long one for some reason. Sometimes you just have a feeling about a hunt and I thought it'd go to 20,000+ but apparently not.
This may be my last upload until Scarlet and Violet come out so I will see you guys in Gen 9.
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I have some good memories of this generation but I don't think it's one that I will come back to very often outside of maybe Dynamax Adventures here and there. It just wasn't for me, and that's fine.
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I hope you have a great Halloween & good luck on your hunts!
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Love this shiny. I decided to Masterball it as I have so many of them in Gen 3 at this point. It's the only ball in Gen 3 that matches it imo. I could have gone for Premier but I think it's a little too focused on the pink for it match despite the red and white colours too.
A really cosy hunt to be honest. I enjoyed this hunt a lot. It was nice to find something that was 100% again as I'm phasing like mad in Gen 2 for Vulpix.
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Total attempts - 2
Probably the easiest Factory Head battle in existence. Magneton the MVP.
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I literally couldn't have asked for a better way to finish this quest. Relicanth first phase doing the repel trick and then Clamperl first phase after using Sweet Scent. Perfect. Very happy to have finished this quest off. It wasn't tough but more, tedious. Two fishing encounters & the Relicanth repel trick but as my collection grows, hunts will become harder. I thoroughly enjoyed this quest start to finish. I love doing monotype challenges and this will be the first of many, many of these throughout the series.
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Dunsparce is a really nice shiny. A very simple change that I like a lot. Blue to pink, classic.
Another near little hunt boxed off. Thanks for watching!
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On the third phase with a total of 30,148 encounters and an average of 10,049 per shiny for this target. I'd much rather get a 20% on the third phase and have the average be higher than it should be. Very lucky!
I'm not sure which will be the next target, possibly Ninetales but maybe not. See you soon for that one!
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This shined on the very last encounter of the night. I was ending at 13,500 and amazingly it appears then. It's been a long time since that happened.
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I would assume you're wondering why continue if I have one of the two. This is my fully evolved Pass Power challenge through White 2. Starmie is the target. Staryu is still a very welcome phase though as it means I can complete the line when Starmie shines.
Both Staryu and Starmie have incredible shinies & I'm glad to find it.
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I can't believe I got this amazing shiny first phase. I don't think I've had a reaction like that before. I think I was more shocked at finding the shiny first phase than the shiny itself. This is in my opinion one of the best shinies in the series. It's incredible.
I think this repel trick has been massively overrated in terms of difficulty. I really, really don't think it's as slow as people suggested to me. It was 50-60 encounters an hour if that's any help. I'm now able to drop the repel trick so I can just do normal sweet scent encounters for Clamperl which I've already started hunting.
Just the one target left on this quest!
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Really pleased this didn't take too long. This hunt can be quite cruel to certain hunters so I'm glad to have been lucky with my phasing here.
This quest is now complete and another Elite 4 video will be on the way soon.
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I thoroughly enjoyed this playthrough. Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen are among my favourite Pokemon games & I feel like this team is probably the best I've put together yet. I'm not really interested in stats, balance, EVs etc but the cohesion with this team was excellent. Sadly as you see in this video, Arbok didn't stand out too much in the Elite 4 but it was still very useful throughout. Charizard and Dragonite were the real winners and Cloyster held its own for sure.
109,410 total encounters
9,946 average
11 shinies in total
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I'm really, really proud of the successful fishing hunts I've managed to finish off this year. These hunts are notorious for being quite annoying. I won't claim they're easy but personally, I don't think they're as bad as many say. They're actually quite pleasant to hunt alongside something else which was quite surprising. That said, I am glad to be done with fishing hunts for a while in Hoenn. I do have many more targets in these games to fish up so we will see when I go for those.
Next up is Relicanth and Huntail. A very slow repel trick underwater at 50/50 each. Let's hope it's a short one!
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I'm really enjoying these Swarm hunts a lot and intend to do a lot more.
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Very happy this was underodds and it kind of needed to be with the amount of times I went overodds for the Ralts phase. Fishing encounters in Hoenn aren't the easiest so I'm glad it was a simple hunt all things considered. Pretty happy to have done three Hoenn fishing hunts in the span of a few months.
Next up is Bagon which I'm all set up and ready to hunt once a few more targets on other games shine.
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I had every intention of seeing out the week in Hoenn but half way through, I was struck by a mysterious, green, energy that gave me motivation after seeing a few fellow shiny hunters find my next Kanto Safari target. Here are my finds for this year and a new journey on my channel to find, & catch my next rare target.
My stats this year;
99,098 random encounters
11 shinies found
Average of 9,007 per shiny
Not the luckiest of years but I'm glad with the variety I found.
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There was always a lot of doubt about whether this could be hunted or not. I feel like we've made a lot of progress in recent years as to what is attainable and who knows what else there is to discover. I've had this bonus disc for the best part of a decade now and I have used Jirachi several times in casual playthroughs. It's very broken but very fun. This shiny is #1 for my new Ruby Dream Team Quest.
I'm sure there will be a lot of questions about this method. So feel free to comment on my video or The Domination's videos for assistance.
I initially started this hunt with the standard method of playing through the game and getting the dex. I did around 500 encounters with it but being honest, it was like pulling teeth. I only single hunt my targets so I wanted to try the faster method. I also wanted to avoid an uncatchable as I can't stand the concept of uncatchable shinies. There's a chance of a random shiny starter I guess but I'd much rather avoid the uncatchable.
Massive thank you to The domiNATION & Tenpers UP for their videos. Really appreciate the video and guide. Please consider subscribing to fellow shiny hunters!
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Also a huge thanks to Symphinx for further optimising this hunt and explaining everything in terms of numbers!
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The obvious point to note is yes, obviously this is an easier hunt in Ruby and Sapphire with a working battery but I personally like to hunt things on the save file they're going to be used on. It's just a preference. Steven Stone's Beldum passed to me (Steve) in my childhood copy of Emerald. Pretty cool if I say so myself.
If you need more help with the method used (and yes, it's full odds), please don't hesitate to ask me. Massive thank you to Oakley aka MrLetsPlayIt who is absolute legend in terms of Gen 3 hunting specifically. Please check his videos out and tell him I sent you!
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This is doing to be a very difficult challenge but one that I'm determined to pull off. I should have this quest ongoing fairly soon but I just need to finish some other things before I continue.
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I forgot to include the encounter table but this is a 100% repel trick from level 25 onwards! I used a level 42 Golduck as a lead though and it wasn't that much slower.
I've been having a ton of fun with these Swarm hunts in Gen 5 and still have a few more before I return to my quests.
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Masquerain has always been a super interesting Pokemon to me. I didn't even know it existed until my 3rd playthrough of Ruby back in the day after getting the Surskit swarm randomly. It's usually a 1% encounter and just uncommon in most games future games. It's not that useful despite having the Intimidate ability. It's a really, really nice shiny though.
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I noticed a distinct lack of Gen 5 Swarm videos on Youtube. It's a real shame because there are something special. A lot of very unique and interesting targets. I decided to set up a few games as my side hunts while hunting Cyndaquil in Silver. I had some very good luck over 2-3 days.
This Ariados came 28 minutes after my Shiny Nidorina in SoulSilver which only took 58 encounters!
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This was phase 1 for Shiny Swarm Chansey. Hopefully she doesn't take 50,000 now that I have a super quick hunt on this file.
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I mention in the video but I will write it here for clarity. Female starters cannot be shiny in Generation 2 so simply reset at the nickname screen if the Pokemon chosen is female.
You can also optimise the hunt further by resetting or not when you see the HP value. Cyndaquil is only capable of being shiny if it has a HP value of 18 or 19. If it's 20 (the only other variable), it cannot be shiny due to how shinies are determined in Gen 2. This is also the case for the other starters but with different HP values to consider;
Chikorita (Reset if Female): 19, 20
Cyndaquil (Reset if Female): 18, 19
Totodile (Reset if Female): 20
Only these values can produce a shiny. I mentioned in the intro that I wasn't planning to play too much attention to other hunts at the side but I did find more often than not, I could quickly glance at the HP stat before resetting. It's not as difficult to monitor as you might think.
Furthermore, you can further optimise your hunt by placing your character in the position shown in the video. If you face directly upwards to the table, your character will need to move towards Professor Elm to further the dialogue. Time saver!
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I debated making it its own video then but I usually keep my Safari Week finds as a compilation.
Intro music by Pixeli (amazing channels!) - youtu.be/h277QEaKMT8
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The main drawback for my luck during this hunt was that the phases were quite long. Double odds three times and a few average to short hunts thrown in to give me an average of 12,523 per shiny. I did manage to get Ralts under 10 phases which was the one hope for this hunt.
Phase 1 - Lotad after 31,366
Phase 2 - Wurmple after 8,330
Phase 3 - Zigzagoon after 1,838
Phase 4 - Lotad after 10,516
Phase 5 - Zigzagoon after 9,261
Phase 6 - Wurmple after 13,181
Phase 7 - Poochyena after 489
Phase 8 - Ralts after 25,200
A total of 100,181 encounters.
Bunny hopping made this hunt a little slower than it could have been but as I like to playthrough my games with my shinies, I didn't want to get Super Repels in Fallarbor Town which is the earliest possible way outside of trading. It's a shame Pick Up spamming doesn't give you Max Repels.
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The Super Rod mechanics are the main reason why this is quite under hunted but like with most hunts, you do get used to it. Once I found something to watch alongside this hunt, it really wasn't too bad at all. I've got Carvanha and Corphish hunt next though so ask me again in another month or two whether I feel the same.
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I found a shiny Wingull in Platinum a number of years ago so it's nice to have one in its original generation. I was quite surprised how much the colour of the body stood out to me more than the green. I went into this hunt fully focused on the green wings though that wasn't what caught my eye.
A really cute shiny and a classic Hoenn Pokemon added to my collection.
Onwards to the next target!
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This was on my childhood copy of Yellow too which is always amazing to use for shiny hunting. This game was what got me into Pokemon, period.
I'll probably hunt the other two Legendary Birds at a later point this year.
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The encounter rate in Wayward Cave with Mira is awful, truly awful. If you don't believe me, try it yourself with an Illuminate Pokemon leading. I was doing almost a third more just single hunting in the grass.
Hopefully Bronzor will shine next (spoiler, I got it next phase)!
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Excadrill is one of my all-time favourite Pokemon. I love the shiny too. Delighted to add this to the quest. It's a fun one because you're able to only use Exploring Power 3 and not Lucky Power 2 as Excadrill is 100%. You don't reset as often to keep your Pass Orbs.
I highly recommend you try this if you fancy going for a Pass Power Pokemon. The only annoying thing is the Shards but it can't be helped.
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