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Payzmaykr
01/12/22 2:21:37 AM
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I finally completed the entire Pokdex in BDSP! It required me to catch like 500 Pokmon. What was the hard part? Mostly the fact that the trade community is virtually nonexistent, especially compared to Sword and Shield.

Many of them required me to do ridiculous things, such as cover trees in honey and shake them (once every six hours) and then get 5% odds. Probably a dozen required the friendship status to increase. One was Feebas (if youve ever caught that one, you know why this is tough). Then I had to evolve it out by baking cakes to increase its Beauty. There were probably 25+ legendaries and I still have my master ball.

Then there were swarm/outbreak Pokmon. Every day, ONE was randomly selected as your choice for the day and there were probably six or seven that could only be found this way. Same with the trophy garden. Once again, the community was pretty much dead from the start and the developers were sure to patch out any and every exploit that you could use to circumvent their ridiculous requirements (if you change the time on your switch to get daily events to hurry along, they would punish you by freezing it for like two days).

I didnt hack the game. Pokmon Home is STILL not out, so I couldnt even trade things to myself. Then there was the fiasco of multiple articles claiming you only needed 150 to get the shiny charm! Almost 350 later, I finally got it. Time to shiny hunt with the Masuda Method (breeding with my Japanese Ditto). This brings odds down from roughly 1/4,000 to 1/500.

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SomeLikeItHoth
01/12/22 3:02:06 AM
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Nice fam. Put that charm to good use.

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Payzmaykr
01/12/22 3:04:16 AM
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...
Nice fam. Put that charm to good use.
Heck yeah, fam. I made duplicates of whatever I could (cant dupe the legendaries), so I can trade people if they need something besides the legendaries. All the swarm, trophy garden, and great marsh ones.

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SomeLikeItHoth
01/13/22 7:47:48 PM
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Any shinies yet fam

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Payzmaykr
01/13/22 7:54:25 PM
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...
Any shinies yet fam
Ah, still hunting. I actually found a shiny Ponyta on the map, but I am trying to hatch a shining Magby right now. I got totally screwed in Sword and Shield because I hatched like a million eggs, but never got a shiny. I got dozens in Lets Go, though.

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SomeLikeItHoth
01/13/22 7:58:44 PM
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Payzmaykr posted...
Ah, still hunting. I actually found a shiny Ponyta on the map, but I am trying to hatch a shining Magby right now. I got totally screwed in Sword and Shield because I hatched like a million eggs, but never got a shiny. I got dozens in Lets Go, though.
Nice! Shiny Ponyta was my very first shiny ever. I got it before I knew shiny was a thing. I remember showing my sister and we were both confused by its color. I thought it was a glitch.

Funny story I have with egg hatching. I was trying to get a perfect Froakie during X/Y. Ended up getting a non perfect shiny one (non perfect as in 0 in sp. atk. and max stats in every other stat) but I still have it and plan on using it some day.

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Payzmaykr
01/13/22 8:00:20 PM
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Yep, almost 500. It was a pain because the online trade community is pretty dead, even from the start. Theres a lot of randomness and luck involved and some were very tough to get and evolve. Many involved stuff like friendship status, putting honey on trees, random daily swarm Pokmon, and random daily trophy garden Pokmon. I honestly can barely believe I managed it, but I got a few trades from the trade board here.

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Payzmaykr
01/13/22 8:01:07 PM
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SomeLikeItHoth posted...
Nice! Shiny Ponyta was my very first shiny ever. I got it before I knew shiny was a thing. I remember showing my sister and we were both confused by its color. I thought it was a glitch.

Funny story I have with egg hatching. I was trying to get a perfect Froakie during X/Y. Ended up getting a non perfect shiny one (non perfect as in 0 in sp. atk. and max stats in every other stat) but I still have it and plan on using it some day.
Oh, yeah. I will go with a shiny, even if its IVs arent perfect.

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SomeLikeItHoth
01/13/22 8:03:49 PM
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Payzmaykr posted...
Oh, yeah. I will go with a shiny, even if its IVs arent perfect.
Same. This happened around 2016 or 2017. Id have to check. Just waiting for the right game to use him. Maybe if X/Y gets a remake, even if that doesnt happen for a while.

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Alteres
01/13/22 8:11:59 PM
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31 points is kinda a big deal, nothing for in game of course... but it would always be traded and subject to level restrictions, which suck with the xp share.

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Payzmaykr
01/15/22 1:32:03 AM
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So far, Ive hatched a shiny Magby and Riolu. Ive always wanted a Magmortar, but now I have a shiny. I made one to complete the Pokdex, but I traded it to get something else I need before I used it.

The shiny charm and Masuda Method seem to work better in this game than sword and shield (for me).

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ZMythos
01/15/22 1:44:32 AM
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I went the extra step and made a living dex in brilliant diamond, minus the legendary exclusives from shining pearl. I touch traded those for the shiny charm still.

Apparently the shiny charm only works w/ masuda method right now due to a bug, and normal breeding + wild encounters don't work with it.

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Payzmaykr
01/15/22 2:21:33 AM
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ZMythos posted...
I went the extra step and made a living dex in brilliant diamond, minus the legendary exclusives from shining pearl. I touch traded those for the shiny charm still.

Apparently the shiny charm only works w/ masuda method right now due to a bug, and normal breeding + wild encounters don't work with it.
Ive read the same thing, but I wasnt sure if it was a glitch or an intentional nerf. I actually really prefer the Masuda Method because you get the shiny at level one. I found a shiny Ponyta in the Underground, but I find it less useful because it is at like level 60.

It really sucks that you cant clone Legendaries, though. I wanted a copy of a Level 1 Dialga on Pearl, but Im just thankful to have completed it.

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Lordgold666
01/15/22 7:20:20 AM
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Nice!! Its such ass that swarms and the marsh pkmn are random. Also, home support not being a thing is a joke. Im not buying another switch to trade w myself to get the version exclusives

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Payzmaykr
01/15/22 4:51:47 PM
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Lordgold666 posted...
Nice!! Its such ass that swarms and the marsh pkmn are random. Also, home support not being a thing is a joke. Im not buying another switch to trade w myself to get the version exclusives
It really is a misstep by the developers to not include access to Home.

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Payzmaykr
01/16/22 7:21:59 PM
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Going after a Mudkip now. Its fighting me a bit. I got Riolu within probably fifty eggs.

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