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Playing Legends Arceus while sick and in a massive mass Roselia outbreak, this shiny alpha Roserade popped up

Here are my alpha girlies together, they're so big and cute 🫶

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Got a destiny mark shiny on my birthday 🫶 I got a few extras. Including a random Buizel. I love Sandygast and Palossand. I named her Prince, because in my main team I have a shiny Palossand called King :)

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My phone refused to transfer images but look at my boy!! My first shiny of 2025!! (That's a lie, it was a Chatot in a outbreak but shhhh)

Big silly man 🫶

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Been a bit but here are some recent shiny pokemon (aside from the magby and zorua i havent posted yet) from Legends Arceus. Trying to get a shiny alpha Gardevoir or Zorua but I got some others along the way

In terms of my shiny living dex, Gardevoir finished the Ralts line, Magby is a new one, Purugly finished the Glameow line, Pichu and Raichu were new (just need a male pikachu for that line), and Jolteon is new. The others are extras

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Guys help how can I get shiny Pawmi 😭😭 it's stuck in the roof and I cant lock onto it. I'm confident I can get it if it drops down but it's absolutely refusing to just walk over to me

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Decided I'd try and update any new Pokemon for my Legends Arceus living dex! Had a lot of luck today/yesterday with 6 new pokemon.

I managed to get 2 Pikachu's in 1 outbreak! With Bonsly I also finished the Bonsly line

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Update on how the shiny PLA living dex including gender and form differences is going

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Been hunting alpha Gardevoir on and off for a year. I didn't expect to get a different alpha before it 😭

I was watching a movie so I didn't even notice it spawn in, I just heard the sounds. Luckily I got to see the sparkles in the video

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After almost 22 hours, and 981 encounters with shiny charm + max research 10, I finally got a Burmy 😭

I took like a 3 month break from Legenda Arceus due to burnout from Burmy, and the day I got back to it, I got it!! I also got the static flying Gyarados as shiny not even an hour earlier, but I can only upload 1 video

In total I got 33 shinies from random encounters

Side note: the sound is so early? I was expected it to happen *after* Burmy jumps out. The sound made me think it was an Abra at first, because Burmy wasn't even out of the tree yet lol

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Pure panic when an egg hatches after you see a shiny. Thankfully it stayed put

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Did I ever mention I love alolan Raichu? Enough to get 40 of them?

Jokes aside, I was aiming to get a teensy and humongo one. Buuuut I only ended up getting a teensy one (which is still so cool!!). I was planning to continue this hunt but to do so I can't use the internet, or else the outbreaks will stop appearing. And I'm tired of having to do that lol so I'm cutting my loses 🫡

In the end I still got a few marked ones! Which I'm more than happy abt

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Star’s guide to Masuda Hunting in Scarlet and Violet

So. You want to masuda hunt in Scarlet and Violet. But you don’t know where to start or you’re confused about how it actually works. Well I made a little guide to hopefully help you get started!

Note that this guide is 100% beginner friendly so if you’re already familiar with some aspects feel free to skip some stuff!

What is a masuda hunt and how is it different from an egg hunt?

An egg hunt is when you breed two compatible Pokemon from the same region, this hunt does not have raised shiny odds.

A masuda hunt is when you breed two compatible Pokemon from different regions, which drastically raise the odds to 1 in 683 without the shiny charm and 1 in 512 with the shiny charm. The key to this hunting method is the parents of the Pokemon.

The regions in the game are tied to the languages. For example, if you put your game in French then all the Pokemon you catch are set to be French as well. So you can trade for a Pokemon from *any* other region to masuda hunt.

How do I breed?

To breed in Scarlet and Violet, you need to set up a picnic with the Pokemon you’re breeding in your team. Make sure you don’t accidentally have another Pokemon in your team that’s compatible with the Pokemon you’re breeding. You need a male and female Pokemon, and the child will be the female’s species. Except for breeding with a Ditto, which can breed with any Pokemon regardless of gender and whose eggs always are the non-Ditto species.

Once you set up it becomes a simple waiting game, just sit by the picnic basket next to the table and occasionally check.

How do I know if my Pokemon can breed?

You can check to see if Pokemon are compatible by looking up their egg groups, Pokemon need to be in the same egg group in order to breed. Unless like mentioned before it’s Ditto. There’s also the no eggs discovered egg group, which can’t breed. This includes baby pokemon, legendaries, (most) mythicals and special Pokemon like the paradoxes.

But this is really slow, can I make it quicker?

Yes you can! And I’d recommend you do because it is very slow to hunt, especially in Scarlet and Violet since half the hunt is simply sitting still collecting eggs.

The first way to speed things up is to use a sandwich with egg power. This increases the amount of eggs you get and decreases the steps needed to hatch them. 

I personally wouldn’t recommend wasting herba mystica on an egg power lvl 3 sandwich, but there’s a great lvl 2 one! #17, the great peanut butter sandwich. All it takes is banana, butter and peanut butter so it’s really low cost for the boost you get. Just make them before collecting eggs, and make them before hatching them. 

The second way to speed things up is with specific abilities. If you put a Pokemon with Flame Body, Steam Engine or Magma Armor in your party it halves the steps needed to hatch eggs.

Though do note that some Pokemon require more steps than others to hatch. It still isn’t a fast shiny hunt!

Some extra tips

-I’d highly recommend just getting a Ditto from a different region, it’s most common for these hunts! If you’re not sure how, the Pokemon Home app has a GTS. People often put Ditto’s from their own region in there to trade with ones from different regions.

-Don’t hatch them in a place with a lot of “aggressive” Pokemon. They can run up to you while you’re in the hatching animation and force you into a battle.

-You can make things more fun by hunting multiple Pokemon at once! We call this an egg roulette, and it wasn’t possible before SV. Personally I’m shiny hunting the starters by putting a few ones in my team with a Ditto. Just make sure the ones from your region are all the same gender so they don’t breed amongst eachother instead

-You don’t need to have a recipe unlocked to make it. If you have the ingredients, you can make the sandwich in creative mode. This is especially easy for the lvl 2 egg sandwich I mentioned earlier since it’s only 3 ingredients

-You can release multiple pokemon at once via Home! So you're not stuck to slowly releasing them individually

And that’s it! Go out there and hunt and have fun! Feel free to ask me any questions at all, I’m happy to answer them! 

Also this is my first time making a guide like this so please lmk how I can improve

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Been replaying XY. And I originally started shiny hunting by chain fishing in oras, so I figured ya know what? I'll get a shiny on my team for old times sake

It took about ~2 hours, 258 encounters total and a chain of 39

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So I'm currently on vacation and I got 2 fun shinies in GO today! A shiny Solrock and a shiny Sneasel. Sneasel came from the better together timed research, and Solrock was a random encounter. It's funny I got a shiny rock type in a city known for its architecture and old castle ruins

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So I was joinging random tera raids and somehow got one with a shiny Cryogonal

I genuinely don't know if it's legit. I can only assume it is? I hope it is, at least

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Got 2 shiny Meltan's in GO today!! This is your reminder that you can shiny hunt them with the mystery box for the 8th anniversary!

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Had a good community day 👍