It’s time for the next installment of this series. Thankfully I had some good luck last week and got some more new friends to share with you.

Number 141

I decided to hunt with some sandwiches again. This time I went for one that boosted poison types. I went hunting by the lake, hoping to get the version exclusive Pokémon Gulpin. I would also be fine with Toxicroak or Swalot. I was riding around with the sandwich boost and I eventually found one towards the end of the sandwich. The strange thing was the blue Gulpin was by itself. I think I managed to turn around just before a group completely despawned and the shiny was the only one remaining. I will take it.

Number 142

The next day was outbreak day and we had some good ones to choose from. I don’t know exactly what happened with the outbreaks but they all paid out in less than thirty minutes. I just had some good luck that day. Anyway, the first one of the ones I found was a green Masquerain. I had originally planned to hunt this later, but I decided to take on the opportunity now.

Number 143

The next outbreak I went to was a Marill outbreak and this was the last one I needed to complete the line. It was in a bit of a weird spot and did take the longest of the three to show up, but I managed to find the green water mouse in the end. Then I immediately found another the next day as if the game wanted to mess with me. Go figure.

Number 144

The final one I hunted for was Gible. The outbreak was there so I figured I would give it a shot, but I honestly would have been fine hunting for it later. I figured I would spend a bit of time there to test my luck. It took less than five minutes for the yellow-bellied shark dragon to appear. What a weird day, but I got three new shiny Pokémon to show for it.

Number 145

The next day I decided I would focus on the starter Pokémon again. I had already started hatching a batch of eggs a couple days ago and I decided I should finish up the rest of them. Fortunately, this was a good batch as I finally managed to get the purple-eyed cat, which was the only starter line I hadn’t gotten anything from yet. I think this I one of the few times I did an audible gasp when finding a shiny Pokémon. Most of the time my reactions are internal so that should indicate how surprised I was to find a shiny Sprigatito.

Number 146

The same egg batch had another surprise in store as it also contained another pink crocodile which I evolved into its middle evolution form. The amazing thing was these two shiny Pokémon were only separated by six eggs. What a good batch, and with the addition of Crocalor I now have only four more shiny starters to go.

Number 147

Alright, make that three. I made a new batch and I managed to luck out by getting the third and final Quaxly I would need for the Shiny Dex. I immediately evolved it up to its final form: a shiny Quaquaval. It’s interesting how it kind of looks like the colors are more washed out on the shiny form, giving it a light purple body with light green feathers. Anyway, One line down, two to go.

Number 148

Now this one was one I was conflicted about for a while. You might remember that I mentioned that I found two shiny Grimers when I was searching for a shiny Ditto. The evolution of this Pokémon, Muk, cannot be found except in two circumstances. The first is in raid battles and the second is in outbreaks. I only said I would consider getting Pokémon that spawned in the wild for this challenge so I wasn’t going to use raids to find the shiny form. However, I was torn if I wanted to hunt for specific outbreaks of Pokémon to complete this challenge despite the odds of finding them being quite rare and annoying to hunt. With all that said, here is a big green pile of sludge for the Shiny Dex. I might have one less shiny Grimer, but I will live with it. At the end of the day, I do want to have some fun with this challenge.

Number 149

This Pokémon was another edition to my ever growing collection of pink shiny Pokémon. I happened to stumble across this Sneasel in a group with her friends when checking the Spiritomb spawns after finishing egg hatching for the day. I caught it with no trouble and finsihed checking the other spawns. My luck was pretty good that day.

Number 150

This last one was when I was experimenting with build for the Decidueye raid last weekend. I failed on my first build and so I reset the game to save resources. I remembered that there was a Bellibolt den somewhere that would be good for the upcoming raid, so I went hunting for it again. Only, I forgot exactly where it was and had to go searching dens I had already visited. Turns out that this time a yellow Shinx was waiting by one of the raid dens. She was an unexpected surprise, but a welcome one. Oh, and I did find the Bellibolt den I was looking for eventually. I used that Bellibolt to beat the raid too.

That’s it for this installment. See you next time for the next one of these. Hope you enjoyed and have a nice day!

It’s time for another installment of this series, and I must say that the repeats are really starting to rack up at this point. Hopefully it doesn’t get too high.

Number 131

Now after I made a few poor financial decisions in the game, I was in desperate need of money. I spent a few days clearing out as many raid dens as I could find and by one of them, I happened to spot a group of Cufant, with one of them being yellow. I was hoping that I might find one of these eventually. What a nice yellow elephant.

Number 132

Next up I decided to try out a couple of strategies. The first was to hang out in one area where I was missing a few shiny Pokémon and see what I get. Soon after I found a cream-colored lion cub chilling by the cliffside. I’m off to a pretty good start.

Number 133

After the success of my first method, I decided to keep trying things out. I spent a little longer in the grass until I stumbled upon a yellow bird. I’m so glad I finally managed to find another shiny bird in this game. I’m even happier about the fact that I didn’t have to chase it down.

Number 134

I just realized that I never mentioned my second strategy. It is to reset outbreaks. I said before that I wasn’t going to do any date skipping, but this is different. When the outbreaks reset at the beginning of the day, I close and reopen the game to refresh the outbreaks for the day. It is a bit of a loophole, but I have a green Shuppet now so I think this method is valid. Besides, I’m tired of Flittle outbreaks.

Number 135

After the outbreak, I went back to that area from before to see if it was still willing to pay out. Turns out it was, as I found a walking mushroom with orange spots. Shroomish has always been one of those Pokémon I like without knowing why. At least it’s a nice shiny.

Number 136

A new day means I can use my reset trick again. I probably won’t use this every time but I will if I’m having a major drought. Anyway, I found a Rotom outbreak by the lighthouse where I finally got my shiny Ditto. So, I headed over and went hunting each night and left during the day. That is until I realized that they don’t disappear during the day. Then I just stuck around until I found myself a red bulb. Honestly, stuck out more than I thought it would. We’re not done yet though.

Number 137

Even though I found a shiny Rotom, Rotom happens to have alternate forms you can access through the Rotom Catalog. That means I need six Rotom to have every form. Thankfully I was successful in catching them all. I even got a surprising extra. A shiny Kirlia happened to spawn as I was collecting them too. Kirlia was one of the few Pokémon I didn’t have by this lighthouse so that was nice. Another blue shiny for the collection.

Number 138

Went back to that previous spot again to try and find something new. I was honestly expecting some repeats at this point, but I was proven wrong. I look away for one second, turn back to my game, and there is a green reindeer right in front of me. Honestly, I didn’t expect to get this, but it looks really good. You might be wondering what else I got after this. The answer is repeats. Lots of repeats.

Number 139

I was doing repeat hunts for a later date in a rather dangerous area. I only say it is dangerous because there is a lot of potential for repeat shiny Pokémon I don’t need. Thankfully, I got lucky and found a blue Lycanroc. It is one of the three forms I will need later, so I’m glad to get one out of the way now. This particular form is the Midnight Form, which only spawns during the night.

Number 140

The last one, for now, was once again found through resetting outbreaks. It was for the Pokémon Vivillion, a Pokémon that I didn’t have any representation of yet. I did unfortunately phase once and wasn’t having a lot of luck throughout the day. I was even starting to doubt whether I knew what it looked like. So, I did the sensible thing and double-checked. I was right. It had an all white body without any gray and I was just unlucky. Nothing to be done about that. Then I looked back at my screen and realized the shiny was staring at me. How does this keep happening to me?

Well, that’s it for now. Now that I have found a new trick to outbreaks, I might be able to speed things along. We’ll see how it goes. See you next time!

It’s time for another edition of this long-running series. You know, looking back on the rules I set for myself, I will probably be at this for a long time. I’ll probably worry about that later. Probably around number 300 or so. But right now we have some new members to introduce. Here they are.

Number 121

As you already know, the Bounsweet hunt has not been going great. I wanted to try going for some other Pokémon to mix things up a little. I went to look for a Zorua near Medali as that is the city I see most people finding their black and blue foxes. I figured there was no harm in testing my luck. Well, I ended up with a shiny that I have seen people get here during this hunt. It was a pink ninja spider, more commonly known as a shiny Spidops. Now I have to keep track of more phases again. Yay.

Number 122

I swear I have the worst luck with Alomomola outbreaks. This Pokémon either has an outbreak that spawns on land so they don’t show up, or right at the edge of the beach so they barely spawn in. Today, I wanted to just check this one off the list. The two things making this difficult were that only four were spawning at a time and the lighting was making these pink Alomomola look purple. That is a bit of a problem since the shiny is also purple. Eventually, I started to lose focus so I gave myself an ultimatum. If I didn’t find it by 2 pm, I would move on and do something else. As luck would have it, it spawned in ten minutes before the deadline. Go figure.

Number 123

I decided to try out some more isolated encounter hunts that day. Fortunately one of them was actually successful. I used a fighting-type boost sandwich to try to run into a shiny Flamigo as Casseroya Lake. The good thing about this was I didn’t have to enter the lake. The bad part was I forgot entirely that Croagunk spawned there so I got a little nervous. At some point during the sandwich, I decided to pause the hunt and come back to it later. So, I put my Switch on sleep mode and came back to it in about an hour. The screen turned on and the shiny Flamigo was right in front of me. I don’t know how I didn’t see this pale pink flamingo the first time, but better late than never I guess.

Number 124

Remember how I said I was doing isolated encounters? Of course, you do, it was in the last paragraph. Well, I was in the desert using a grass-type boost to find some new shiny Pokémon and as luck would have it the next day had a Cacnea outbreak. For reference, Cacnea is a grass type that only spawns in the desert. Unfortunately, my outbreak luck was at an all-time low because the outbreak was on top of a rock where only three or four would spawn at a time. but just like the Alomomola outbreak, I gave it a shot. Unfortunately, I didn’t get the Cacnea this time. However, I didn’t leave empty-handed. I managed to at least find a yellow Capsakid hanging out on the rock. It wasn’t the grass type I was looking for, but I was glad to get a new addition.

Number 125

Now as you know, the Cacnea outbreak didn’t go well. However, I did get a shiny Pokémon. The problem is that now there was a bigger danger of repeats. I could find Capsakid in places other than the desert, but not Cacnea. So I tried an experiment to raise my odds. I thought that if I made a dark boost sandwich, then it would have more Cacnea spawn because I thought more Cacturne would spawn and I don’t know. Listen, my brain has had better moments. Anyway, that didn’t work. But I didn’t want to waste the sandwich. That would be waste of food. So I tried to Zorua hunt again. I figured it would be the most productive way to burn my sandwich. I spent most of the sandwich doing the hunt as usual when I noticed that one of the fakers was not falling in auto-battle. Actually, my Pokémon refused to attack it at all. I was in shock. It started running. In panic, I ran after it without saving. The sparkles appeared and it revealed itself to be the black fox with blue socks. Never thought I would find this on phase two, but here we are. Nice.

Number 126

Next up was another isolated encounter hunt. I figured since the last fighting type boosted hunt went so well I could go for another one. My main target for this hunt was the Pokémon Falinks which has a nice brown color when it’s shiny. I decided to hunt in the area in the north with the bamboo trees in the hopes of finding it. I also thought that I would be fine with finding the other fighting type shiny Pokémon that spawned there. So after cruising around for about ten minutes I finally found my target. I almost sped past this brown Falinks, but luckily my brain registered it in time.

Number 127

You might not remember the rules of this challenge, but they rely very heavily on luck. It is honestly relying on borderline insane luck to complete. One of the more difficult ones is Spiritomb. That was one of the main reasons why I mentioned it last week. So, recently I have spent each day checking its locations to see if one of them is shiny. I have even started heading there early some nights to prep for the next day. Well, one morning as soon as I booted up the game I was greeted by something unexpected. There was a purple crab with red gloves right in front of me. While I was lying there in shock, it ran up to me and started a battle. That’s definitely one way to start a morning.

Number 128

There were some other Pokémon I was checking out periodically other than Spiritomb. One of them was Dragonite, as it was the only one I was missing from the Dratini line. I wasn’t able to find it over the past few days, but I wasn’t expecting to find it quickly anyways. However, what I did find one day was a white mountain goat. Thankfully I noticed the golden horns or I might not have seen this shiny Gogoat behind all the other Gogoat. It wasn’t the evolution line I was looking to complete, but I’m happy with this outcome.

Number 129

Sometimes, I just don’t really know what a shiny Pokémon looks like until I see it for myself. There is this Pokémon called Sunflora that is essentially just a walking sunflower. It isn’t anything special, but my brain would never remember what the shiny for this Pokémon looked like. I knew its body was different from its usual green, but I couldn’t remember how subtle the change was. So, I would fight any Sunflora I found in case it was a shiny Sunflora. Then I met one. This was around 12:30 AM, right before I decided to head to bed. This Sunflora ran up to me and I realized that the shiny color was actually a pale yellow. Good to know.

Now this one fried my brain. I had a strange time that day. I was having some trouble finding new shiny Pokémon to finish this batch up and then that day a new outbreak showed up that I was interested in. It was for the evolution to Arrokuda called Barraskewda. The main feature it had was the shiny version had a dark blue head. I figured it would be about as bad as the Arrokuda hunt and I was right. Now here is why things were weird. I had already found two repeat shiny Pokémon that day. So, my mentality was a little shaken. Then I look it up to make sure I could notice it and realized I probably could, but I would really need to be paying attention. Naturally, I got distracted by something and paused the game. When I came back, what greeted me was the shiny Barraskewda engaging me in battle. Apparently, it ran into me right when I got distracted and I had no idea. Thankfully I got to see the sparkles.

By the way, after that Barraskewda outbreak, I accidentally went into another outbreak and found another repeat shiny Pokémon. What a weird shiny turnout. Anyway, I’ll see you again next time. Bye!!!

You know, what’s cool about finding shiny Pokémon is even after finding over 100 of them, I still run into interesting situations like this next one. It’s time for a redemption arc.

Number 111

Like Floette, Gastly was another Pokémon I didn’t have any luck with in outbreaks. However, on the day an outbreak with three ghost-type Pokémon appeared in outbreaks, I made it my mission to focus on the Gastly one until I found that shiny Pokémon. It thankfully didn’t take the entire night. Now Gastly shiny is a bit harder to notice in this game because of the lighting, but it has a blue haze surrounding its core instead of a purple one and its core is purple instead of black. Luckily I did some research beforehand so when I finally got one to spawn, I noticed it immediately. Here’s where the interesting thing come in. After I saved and encounter the shiny Gastly, I noticed something. Behind the Gastly I was encountering, there was another shiny Gastly. It seemed to have spawned behind me as I noticed the first one and I ended up noticing this one because of the camera change in battle. So, I got them both as part of a special BOGO deal. What luck!

Number 112

I went to another outbreak. This one spawned Mismagius and I needed it to complete the Misdreavus family line. Unfortunately, I spent so much time at the Gastly outbreak that the sun eventually rose and they all despawned. With nothing left to do but kill time, I did just that. Eventually, the sun set again and I waited for them to start spawning only for one of the first ones I see to be yellow-green instead of purple. Not a bad wait. Unfortunately, the other ghost hunt did not go as well. Oh well, can’t win them all.

Number 113

It was a new day, but more importantly, the Bronzor outbreak was back. There was no way I was going to miss this chance again. So, I went straight away to find it. However, things never go according to plan for me. Guess what I found? that’s right another pink shiny Pokémon. This was a personal favorite Pokémon of mine though so I was pretty excited to see it appear. Nothing heals the heart like a shiny pink Mareep.

Number 114

Even though I was happy with that surprise Mareep, I still wasn’t satisfied. After all, my original target was still Bronzor. So, I kept looking around the ruins for a floating green piece of metal while making sure it wouldn’t disguise itself as blades of grass. It didn’t come to that though as I eventually found and caught the little green guy.

Number 115

It was a new day and that meant new outbreaks. There were two I wanted to go to and I started with the Wingull outbreak. Then after two hours of nothing, I decided to go to the other outbreak and test my luck. I wanted to do the Wingull one first because this other outbreak was a Tadbulb outbreak and I was feeling less confident about that one. However, since I needed a break I went over and started knocking out any Tadbulb I could find. Before I got too deep into it, I just saw the shiny Tadbulb floating right by me. Honestly, it was probably there the whole time and I had just now noticed it. In my defense though, noticing the red tail in a swarm of orange ones can be a bit difficult. I do like the red though.

Number 116

I went back to the Wingull outbreak. I would like to say it didn’t take a long time after that to find the Wingull with green stripes. Unfortunately, that would be a lie. It took me over two hours after returning to the outbreak to find it. My goodness, that was a long hunt. At least I found it.

Number 117

Another day, another outbreak. This one was for Azumarill, the final evolution of Azurill. It didn’t have the best spawns, so I had to use a fairy boost sandwich to help speed things along. I was secretly hoping for a green mouse to show up (shiny Marill), but the yellow guy showed up first. Honestly, I’m just glad it didn’t last as long as that Wingull hunt.

Number 118

As you might have noticed by now, I was mainly using outbreaks to hunt for shiny Pokémon. It wasn’t because I forgot about the other hunts I was working on, but more because I had recently started a playthrough of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild so my attention was split. So I decided to do outbreaks unless nothing popped up that I wanted to go for that day. However, this day was a dilemma. The two that spawned that I didn’t have and considered going for were Pyroar and Tynamo. I have already talked about the Tynamo hunt being miserable, but the Pyroar shiny wasn’t really amazing so I hesitated as to whether I should do it. It was just that its back goes from dark brown to light brown. Eventually, I just switched between the two outbreaks until I found one of the shiny forms. It probably isn’t surprising that I found the lion before the tiny eel.

Number 119

I didn’t give up looking for Tynamo though and went back to the outbreak. Then, I cleared the outbreak because it was too frustrating checking for them underwater. So, I decided to move back to my previous location and try a couple of electric boost sandwiches. The number of times I got baited on my first sandwich because of the weird lighting was too many to count. Even when I did find the shiny twenty minutes in, I thought it was the light tricking me again. Turns out I was wrong. Man, what a great time to be wrong. The blue color difference is noticeable, but in the water good luck spotting it.

Number 120

Realizing I was slacking on the Bounsweet hunt, I decided to head back to it. I had been in Phase Four for a long tie now and at this point, I wanted to either finish the hunt or move on to a new phase. There were still some new Pokémon I could find as well so the chances of me getting a repeat weren’t set in stone. And speaking of stone, I found myself staring at a shiny under the tree. It wasn’t the Bounsweet, but instead, a rock-type that pretends to be a sapling. It was a Bonsly. Although, I have to wonder how a shiny Bonsly could even fool anyone with its bright pink orbs on its head. It certainly didn’t fool me.

Alright, that’s another batch down. See you for the next batch and have a nice day!

Alright, let’s keep things going as we head into the triple digits. We still have a long way to go.

Number 101

This is an outbreak that I had been putting off for a while. There are a good amount of Pokémon in this game that are small. Due to this, it can be hard to find shiny variants when hunting them. This particular outbreak was for Floette, the middle evolution of the Flabébé line. I didn’t realize exactly how small this Pokémon was until now, mainly because I had forgotten the entirety of Gen VI’s storyline. Anyway, this Pokémon can be hard to spot because of its size and somewhat subtle color change. However, I promised myself that I wouldn’t give up on this outbreak. The RNG gods must have born witness to my determination because I actually managed to spot it. Somehow the purple actually jumped out at me when I got closer to it. Not looking forward to trying to find the other forms, but I’ll cross that bridge at a later date.

Number 102

There was one more outbreak I wanted to head to and it was for the most well-known shiny Pokémon of all time. For those who aren’t aware, when they first introduced shiny Pokémon back in Generation II, there was one shiny Pokémon that you were required to interact with for story progression and it is many people’s first shiny Pokémon because of that. That Pokémon is the red Gyarados. However, just because it was easy to get in Generation II, doesn’t me I was getting lucky in an outbreak seven generations later. I even use a flying boost sandwich before I found the guy. I can’t be mad though. It still looks good.

Number 103

It was a new day of outbreaks and once again, there were two I didn’t have. One was Barboach and the other was Florges. Of the two, the one I wanted the most was Barboach. I didn’t have either of the shiny forms from its line since I failed to get any results from the Whiscash outbreak weeks back. So I hunted there first and the spawns were not the best. The body of water was kind of small and most of the spawns were on the surrounding land. It could have been better but not all was lost as one of the land-dwellers was a shiny Nacli. Honestly, an unexpected find. I turned my camera and found a mushroom with copper sticking out of it and immediately jumped at it to catch it. And that is how I met Nacli the Peckish. Now, back to the Barboach outbreak.

Number 104

Just kidding. I got bored. Unfortunately, the Florges outbreak spawns were not a lot better. It was a little weird but the spawns were stacking Pokémon for some reason. So around twenty Florges would spawn at a time, but they would be in five different spots with four stacked on each spot. The only real benefit was that Florges, the final evolution of Flabébé, has an easily distinguishable shiny form since it is a lot bigger than the previous two forms and the leaves change from green to purple. So to help speed things along, I made a fairy boost sandwich and kept checking out stacks until I found some purple leaves sticking out. It took about twenty minutes, but I found her. Thankfully I managed to encounter the purple one properly when it was hiding within the stack of its sisters.

Number 105

So, afterward, I was going to head back to the Barboach outbreak, but there was still some time left on the sandwich I made for Florges so I decided to head to a place where lots of fairy types spawned and test my luck. It didn’t go according to plan. However, I noticed something odd just when the sandwich was on the verge of running out. It was a Gothorita staring at me. Normally I wouldn’t think anything of it, but there was another Gothorita nearby also staring at me; for some reason, its face looked different. Now Gothorita was one of the few Pokémon I could safely say that I had no clue as to what its shiny form looked like. I may have looked it up at one point, but I probably forgot immediately. And yet, at that moment, I looked into that Gothorita’s eyes and realized that they weren’t the usual blue and felt its face looked a bit pinker. I gave it a check and it was shiny. It isn’t a fairy type, but I’m glad I came.

Number 106

Of course, I wasn’t going to give up on the Barboach that easily. I was able to figure out how to increase the spawn rate, but it was still taking a while. I was also feeling like my eyes were getting heavier every minute. However, I didn’t want to lose this opportunity so I forced myself to stay awake for as long as I could. Thankfully, at around 45 minutes to midnight, I found the little yellow guy. Getting four shinies in one day is something I can sleep on.

Number 107

The next day I decided to test my luck by visiting the raid dens that spawn in the overworld. I was just traveling to them in the hopes of maybe getting very lucky and finding some shiny Pokémon. Unfortunately, that didn’t work out. However, at least I found a bright white Skiddo chilling in a group of normal Skiddo. So, at least it wasn’t for nothing. He even had a title making her Skiddo the Cloud Watcher.

Number 108

You know, now that I think about it, something else happened that day. About an hour after I found the Skiddo, I ran into a Scyther that looked like it was a darker green than usual. So, I ran up to it to see if it had any pink on it or if it was just the lighting. Fortunately, my senses were spot on as I found a green Scyther with pink joints. Still amazed I spotted the darker shade of green.

Number 109

The next day I was continuing the same sort of method. I was going in and out of raids constantly. At the time, I didn’t realize that the Pokémon around you get reset when you enter a raid. It seems obvious in hindsight, but I didn’t really it was the case until I found a yellow-brown Mudbray with blue hair next to me. The funny thing is I almost reset it by going back in. Luckily I noticed it in time.

Number 110

This guy doesn’t have a special story in particular. I was just cruising around while doing some more raids when I got distracted and started roaming around. Part of me wanted to find a Diglett to complete my line so I started looking for blue noses. Turns out that I found blue, but it wasn’t what I was expecting. A blue Voltorb was just rolling around in the quarry. Thankfully, I think that the shiny ones aren’t programmed to explode like the normal ones.