So, I am still playing Zelda, but I haven’t finished with it yet and figured I would buy some time by going through my shiny backlog. I haven’t been as invested in it lately due to a couple too many stupid fails, but I do have some results to show for it. So while I will continue to play Zelda for a while, consider this a bonus. Well, if you are into shiny alpha Pokémon at least.
Now, this one is a bit of a special one for me because this shalpha happened to also be the same as the first ever Pokémon I caught as a shiny in this game. They might be different genders so there is a subtle difference between them, but I still think this giant Toxicroak looks pretty cool. This was the static alpha Toxicroak that spawns in Crimson Mirelands. I just happened to do a map check and found it. This was also the first shalpha that I found here that wasn’t using the outbreak trick.
This one was another first for me. This shalpha is one that I found during a massive mass outbreak. What makes it special is that this is this shalpha wasn’t part of an outbreak. In fact, it wasn’t a static spawn either. I somehow found a shiny alpha Drifloon that randomly spawned in. Very rarely is a random Pokémon that spawns an alpha or a shiny, so imagine how lucky you have to be to randomly find both. This is definitely the rarest shalpha I own because of how I found it. You could probably find shalpha Drifloon in other easier ways such as in outbreaks, but I still think this guy is pretty cool.
The next find was a random occurrence while I was shiny hunting in a massive mass outbreak (MMO). Normally I just fly around seeing if I can find anything cool in any of the outbreaks without having to actually try and clear them out. It usually doesn’t go very well, but every now and then you can hit the jackpot. I managed to get myself a nice red monkey. What is even better is that it happened to be alpha. That is the first shalpha on this list where I don’t have its normal shiny form. It is nice to get the harder one out of the way I guess. Especially because this one can be difficult to hunt. This might honestly be one of my rarer shalpha Pokémon because of that.
Now I have hunted shalphas in just about every possible way at this point. However, there is still one method that I hadn’t really attempted yet. It is known as the permutation method. What it entails is rerolling the Pokémon that spawn after you clear out the first wave of an outbreak of Pokémon in an MMO. Depending on the order you catch them or knock them out, you can reroll the Pokémon that spawn in and that means you can potentially reroll into a shiny. Since the second wave can spawn alphas, you can use this method to shalpha hunt specific Pokémon. The actual method is something I had just started using for regular shiny Pokémon, but I decided I really wanted a shalpha Zorua. So, I decided to do as many resets as it took to find it. It took four attempts. Kind of anticlimactic, but I am not complaining.
My last one is honestly, my favorite just because of how cool it looks. This one is also a static shiny and it caught me completely off guard. I have been hunting the static Luxray on and off for a while now and I have had no luck on that front. However, I have had some luck with getting two static shalphas while completing the map checks afterward. They were the Gligar and Mothim from the last time I did one of these. Somehow we ended up with a third static shalpha and it was a shalpha Steelix. This golden steel snake looks so clean. I think that it is definitely the best-looking shalpha I own and even if it wasn’t my target I am totally okay with that.
Well, that is all for this little catch-up session. Will probably do one of these again at some point if I can. I just need to be in the mood is all. Anyway, see you next time and have a good night.
That Casual Gamer Guy 