Goodness, this one took a bit. Unfortunately, we have reached a point where I find more repeats than unique shiny Pokémon. Because I was also running out of box space, I decided to slow down my hunts before things got out of hand. Not sure if that really helped. Also, I felt slightly burnt out so I took a short break from hunting. However, that is all in the past. I have ten new shiny Pokémon for the latest part of these shiny compilations. Let’s get started.
Number 211
One annoying thing about these games is that while most types can be encounter-boosted using sandwich recipes you can unlock, there are a few you just have to figure out on your own. These types are fire, water, electric and psychic. Out of these four, the only one I have yet to hunt with is the psychic one. I never looked it up until now, but I finally decided to use one. After looking up a recipe for it, I used it to find a new shiny Pokémon. Now I thought that shiny Spoink would be harder to spot. All I remembered was it had a black pearl on its head. However, turns out its body isn’t grey and is more of a cream color. This shiny Pokémon is even better than I thought.
Number 212
Do you know the best way to minimize the risk of running into repeat shiny Pokémon? The answer is outbreaks. After a spot of bad luck for a couple of days, I decided to do a few resets after each outbreak change. Every day I would just see if by closing the game and reopening it, the outbreaks might change into something useful to me. Sometimes, it worked out, and sometimes not. Half of the shiny Pokémon I found were from outbreaks. One of them was a Hariyama sporting some nice purple hands. Man, this is a nice shiny Pokémon too. Hope we can keep this going (that’s foreshadowing by the way).
Number 213
Time for everyone’s favorite part of each list. A pink shiny! Just kidding, this isn’t the only one. This is one I was debating doing for a while because while I have seen its outbreaks before, I ignored them because I figured I would hunt it in the final area. Then I realized that since is there no shot I will find the three-segment Dundunsparce before running into a random two-segment one down there, I was worried for nothing. So I found a pink Dunsparce in an outbreak. Funnily enough, it had the rare mark! Glad I went for it. And before you ask, it doesn’t evolve into the three-segment form.
Number 214
There are three shiny Pokémon on this list I was really happy to find. The main reason is that I already had repeats of their previous forms. It is always disheartening to look for the middle shiny in a group and end up with one of the little brothers or sisters. However, that makes it all the more rewarding when you do find one. One of the three I mentioned was an outbreak shiny to be fair, but this one was purely after testing my luck with a flying boost sandwich. Sure I got a repeat, but I was too happy to find a brown Corvisquire to care. God, it looks so nice. A rare find for sure, but a welcome one indeed.
Number 215
Now for the second Pokémon that I’m glad I managed to get out of the way. This one was picked after I fell into a rut and decided to use a random number generator to decide what type I would go for and I ended up trying for a dragon-type Pokémon. After some more deliberation and a couple more dances with RNG, I went in the hopes of catching a Gabite. The first sandwich did not go well as I got two repeats and neither of them were even dragon-types. The second sandwich though, was the one. It got me my target and even the other form of Toxtricity I was missing. It is a shame that Toxtricity was so annoying to capture I nearly threw my switch. Well, anyway I got the Gabite. Similar to Gible, the main way to tell this shiny apart is it is a much deeper and saturated blue color with a more orange belly. It looks really cool. Lord knows why they decided to give the next evolution’s shiny form the Gengar treatment.
Number 216
Time for another pink shiny in an outbreak! Well, truth be told, the main parts that are pink are its eyes and tongue. This was also found by doing a couple of outbreak resets since my luck was so bad. I was taking anything I could get, but I wasn’t going to resort to date-skipping or anything. I wasn’t that desperate. This was a pretty straightforward Shroodle outbreak and I’ll be honest and admit I almost drove right it. Thankfully, I caught it staring at me in time. It is amazing it took me so long to find this thing. I’ve tried multiple times in the past to no avail, but now it is finally mine!
Number 217
Let’s move on to another pink shiny from Generation IX. This time my target was Squawkabilly. This bird has pink hair and a pink beak when shiny, but it also has four shiny types. Squawkabilly comes in four colors: yellow, green, blue, and white. So there is a shiny version for each color. It’s kind of like Oricorio but less impressive. Anyway, after randomly deciding to hunt for a flying type, I decided to hunt for it. While doing so, I learned a valuable lesson. When looking for Squawkabilly by Levincia, use a normal boost sandwich instead. There are only two normal types that show up there with Squawkabilly being one of them. Funnily enough in one sandwich I managed to get two of the four forms. The first was the white one and the second was the blue one. I’ll probably go for the other two eventually, but for right now it is time to move on.
Number 218
Do you remember how I said there was another normal-type Pokémon that spawned there? Well, it was the Pokémon Tandemaus. This Pokémon has arguably the worst shiny colors in the game since all that changes is its light blue shirt and pants change to a light brown color. The same is true of its evolution. They are very hard to find, but since I was in a good mood I decided to attempt the hunt. The best place to hunt for them is by the Pokémon League since the only other normal type is Igglypuff and so a lot of them spawn. Coincidentally Igglybuff also has terrible shiny colors since the only change is that its body is a slightly more saturated pink. That’s it. In fact, I didn’t think I would be able to notice it, so I looked it up to confirm the shade of pink. I looked and thought that there is no way I would spot it. Literally, right after closing the tab, I went forward and noticed one of the Igglybuff that spawned seemed to be a deeper shade of pink than the others. Turns out I can spot it after all.
Number 219
For these last two, we are jumping back into outbreaks to finish things off. This one was another difficult shiny Pokémon to spot. Pincurchin is normally dark purple with a yellow mouth, but it changes to black with an orange mouth when it is shiny colored. That is a hard one to tell, especially at night, so you are basically only looking for the orange mouth to try and spot it. Now, this was the outbreak of the batch that had me questioning whether I would ever find it. there’s always one that I don’t think I will get. Especially during a busy day when I can only hunt sporadically. Thankfully, I am too stubborn to give up early on a time-sensitive hunt. I finally found it twenty minutes to midnight. I always have to cut one of these close. At least it wasn’t hard to catch.
Number 220
The next day was a lucky one as I found a new outbreak. This was a Pokémon that I really wanted their shiny form, so I jumped right at it. I had caught multiple shiny Gulpin by the lake, but never a shiny Swalot. It is the same shade of blue as shiny Gulpin and it looks so good on it, but my luck never allowed me to find it. So there was no way I was going to miss out on an easy Swalot outbreak. It took less than an hour before I saw that beautiful blue. What a nice shiny Pokémon to end things off on for now. Maybe next time I will get lucky enough to find the other poison-type by the lake. I won’t hold my breath though since I haven’t seen one after all this time.
Well, there we go. Another batch finished. I should be starting to hunt more aggressively again since Pokémon Home will be accessible fairly soon and I will actually be able to free up some box space again. Until next time!
That Casual Gamer Guy 