Poll of the Day > I've found more shiny Pokemon playing Ultra Moon than any other method

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Doing Ultra Wormholes. In 10 wormholes I found a shiny Magcargo and a shiny Heliolisk. I've done every shiny hunting method under the sun. This is the only one that has EVER worked for me. I've hatched thousand and thousands of eggs doing the Masuda method. I've done SOS battles. I've done dexnav and horde encounters. I have literally never found any shinies doing any of these methods. The very first wormhole I went into had a shiny.

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I wish there were more variations between Pokemon other than just shinies.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I wish there were more variations between Pokemon other than just shinies.

Some Pokmon have gender differences. Some like minior or alcremie have multiple different color forms.

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I enjoyed the PokeRadar shiny chaining from Diamond and Pearl the most.

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back in the XY days it was satisfying to have a breeding chain going where you just zoomed around the center spire while watching TV


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papercup posted...

Some Pokmon have gender differences. Some like minior or alcremie have multiple different color forms.

More than that. Like, small differences like coloring or markings or hair length or fin width or scars or *rambles on forever like an old prospector*

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CarefreeDude posted...

back in the XY days it was satisfying to have a breeding chain going where you just zoomed around the center spire while watching TV

Yeah I just made an entire living dex in Omega Ruby doing that on the battle resort

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Metalsonic66 posted...

More than that. Like, small differences like coloring or markings or hair length or fin width or scars or *rambles on forever like an old prospector*

Basically, just making each Pokemon look different from one another. Differences too minute and numerous for hunting for a specific combination to ever be worthwhile, and possibly even too subtle to really notice unless you put them side by side, but enough to make your Pokemon look different from those of other players without having to hunt for the single rare variant that exists (and hope that they don't also hunt for the same rare variant and negate whatever uniqueness you might have earned). I could get behind that, just as a minor cosmetic thing.

_AdjI_ posted...

Basically, just making each Pokemon look different from one another. Differences too minute and numerous for hunting for a specific combination to ever be worthwhile, and possibly even too subtle to really notice unless you put them side by side, but enough to make your Pokemon look different from those of other players without having to hunt for the single rare variant that exists (and hope that they don't also hunt for the same rare variant and negate whatever uniqueness you might have earned). I could get behind that, just as a minor cosmetic thing.

That would be pretty cool but sounds like an impossible amount of work unless it was automated somehow. But then you'd get really strange looking pokemon.

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_AdjI_ posted...

Basically, just making each Pokemon look different from one another. Differences too minute and numerous for hunting for a specific combination to ever be worthwhile, and possibly even too subtle to really notice unless you put them side by side, but enough to make your Pokemon look different from those of other players without having to hunt for the single rare variant that exists (and hope that they don't also hunt for the same rare variant and negate whatever uniqueness you might have earned). I could get behind that, just as a minor cosmetic thing.

Well, there's Spinda.
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how about fat pidgeys? the ones who are so fat they can't fly
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Ultra Moon is the only Pokemon game I've picked up and not finished. Just not a very enjoyable experience IMO.

oh yeah, Sinistea and Polteageist have an alternate form. but the only way to tell is to zoom in real close to the model.

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Ultra sun was hard. Not difficult, but the game was so similar to the original, and the endless stream of cutscenes that I already drudged through about made me quit on the first Island

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CarefreeDude posted...

Ultra sun was hard. Not difficult, but the game was so similar to the original, and the endless stream of cutscenes that I already drudged through about made me quit on the first Island

good thing i skipped 1st ones
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Yeah I played Sun way back when it launched and didn't care for it at all. Then when I heard Ultra was just the original games slightly different I was like "eh screw that" and didn't play them for years. Just got Ultra Moon, skipped every cutscene. I enjoyed it quite a bit lol

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I wish sword and shield werent such a let down

it feels like its been ages since I played a Pokmon game that I didnt hate. Probably ORAS

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I got a shiny Dugtrio on my Sword playthrough

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Also if you're thinking about playing a Gen 7 game, skip Sun and Moon, only play the Ultra games. They added new Pokemon that you can't get in Sun/Moon.

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papercup posted...

That would be pretty cool but sounds like an impossible amount of work unless it was automated somehow. But then you'd get really strange looking pokemon.

Just make it randomized without huge changes to their appearances

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I found PokeRadar chaining in XY was a pretty easy method. I got a shiny Furfrou pretty easily. I've heard chain fishing in XY was also a pretty easy method for shinies.

I never did any ultra wormholes in USUM. I just finished the story and was done with it.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Just make it randomized without huge changes to their appearances

Pretty much. It'd take some tweaking to make sure all of the variations were compatible with each other, but you'd just have to come up with a small handful of variations for each variable site and randomly select one when the pokemon is generated. Four sites with half a dozen variants each would give 1296 possible combinations, and that's very doable. Five would bump it up to 7776. That certainly wouldn't guarantee that any given pokemon you catch would be totally unique, but finding a twin would be unusual enough to be a remarkable coincidence, which is all that would really be needed to achieve the goal of such a system.

Honestly, a lot of potential variants for a given Pokemon have probably already been created in the form of rejected concept art (the stuff that just didn't make the final cut, not the stuff that's in the garbage because it belongs there). These designs go through so many revisions and tweaks before reaching their final forms that one could very easily populate a pool of variant appearances just by adapting those prototypes. It'd still take a non-trivial amount of work to do this for several hundred Pokemon (even if legendaries and other special ones were left out, since I think that makes sense), but it's not nearly as bad as you might think.

They could just make cosmetic accessories probably.
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i had decent luck with the friend safari in XY, but the results were kinda annoyingly random.

USUM were great for shinies though, i got a lot through breeding and occasionally still hatch. worm hole shinies are relatively easy too, gotten magcargo, barbaracle, and a couple others, as well as shiny xerneas (bad nature but idc <3) and virizion.

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_AdjI_ posted...

Pretty much. It'd take some tweaking to make sure all of the variations were compatible with each other, but you'd just have to come up with a small handful of variations for each variable site and randomly select one when the pokemon is generated. Four sites with half a dozen variants each would give 1296 possible combinations, and that's very doable. Five would bump it up to 7776. That certainly wouldn't guarantee that any given pokemon you catch would be totally unique, but finding a twin would be unusual enough to be a remarkable coincidence, which is all that would really be needed to achieve the goal of such a system.

Honestly, a lot of potential variants for a given Pokemon have probably already been created in the form of rejected concept art (the stuff that just didn't make the final cut, not the stuff that's in the garbage because it belongs there). These designs go through so many revisions and tweaks before reaching their final forms that one could very easily populate a pool of variant appearances just by adapting those prototypes. It'd still take a non-trivial amount of work to do this for several hundred Pokemon (even if legendaries and other special ones were left out, since I think that makes sense), but it's not nearly as bad as you might think.

I remember when God of War 3 came out, a point was made about how they had programmed the skeleton grunts to have randomized armor and appearances. That was kind of my line of thinking. With so many Pokemon it would be an undertaking for sure, but I'd prefer they start with a smaller number to begin with, anyway.

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Metalsonic66 posted...

I remember when God of War 3 came out, a point was made about how they had programmed the skeleton grunts to have randomized armor and appearances. That was kind of my line of thinking. With so many Pokemon it would be an undertaking for sure, but I'd prefer they start with a smaller number to begin with, anyway.

On the less-successful side of things, though, there's No Man's Sky, where they didn't put enough effort into making sure the random pieces fit together sensibly and ended up with some truly ridiculous-looking creatures as a result. I don't think that would be as much of an issue with Pokemon, since they'd just be making subtle randomized variations within a predefined framework, rather than randomizing the entire creature, but it's nonetheless one of the most notorious examples of this idea being taken too far.

_AdjI_ posted...

No Man's Sky, where they didn't put enough effort into making sure the random pieces fit together sensibly and ended up with some truly ridiculous-looking creatures as a result.

Oof good point lol

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Really? Because I thought you'd find more by playing Pokemon Go, transferring to LG!P/E, and then transferring to the main games... or however that's supposed to work.

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Shiny raids are really common in SwSh

Been hunting for a shiny Medicham for a few days. No luck, but I found another shiny! Shiny Crustle is mine!

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I've never found a single non-scripted shiny, outside of Pokemon Go where they're significantly more common (but still rare).

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I got another shiny Magcargo while searching for a shiny Medicham. x_x

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Shina Abomasnow and Barbaracle!

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Quagsire and Hippowdon.

I just want that damn Medicham. x_x

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I have now found both a shiny male and a shiny female hippowdon :D

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papercup posted...

I have now found both a shiny male and a shiny female hippowdon :D

Breed a shiny egg.
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Revelation34 posted...

Breed a shiny egg.

Actually after I get all the shinies I want from the wormholes, I'm very tempted to try to breed for a shiny Alolan Meowth.

Also I got a shiny Drapion and Swellow. Still no Medicham. >_<

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170 Alolan Meowths hatched, shiny charm and Masuda method. No shinies. =(

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Heres a video I havent watched yet. I might watch later. I also havent read any of the post yet...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zMuddTT3iS4
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Oh man that looks like a lot of work and it's easy to mess up.

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270 eggs no shiny. =( I just want a blue cat

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450 eggs and no shiny. =/

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papercup posted...

450 eggs and no shiny. =/

that is a lot of omelettes
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

that is a lot of omelettes

Gotta break a few eggs to make a blue cat

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papercup posted...

Gotta break a few eggs to make a blue cat

Just leave them on the counter and eventually a blue cat will knock them off it for you.
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570 eggs. Man I want this cat but this is pretty boring, ngl. >_>

I think after this I want to go for a shiny Phantump. >___>

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Decided to try swap breeding for a while. 120 magikarps hatched. no shiny. =/ Starting to think I'm never going to get this shiny lol

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840 eggs hatched. Man idk about this. I want this Meowth, but who knows how long this could take...

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alolan meowth? or regular?

fat meowth is ugly
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Krazy_Kirby posted...

alolan meowth? or regular?

fat meowth is ugly

Alolan. The blue and purple looks nice

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