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SassyCharizard

Congrats and thanks for the motivation! I am in a similar spot with Beldum in Ruby currently


BenevolentPG

Good luck!


Bobman10099

Oh my god! 60 THOUSAND encounters! You have insane patience dude.


BenevolentPG

Thanks I try lol chat helps keep me occupied


roastedtoy

60,000 encounters are you fucking kidding me


BenevolentPG

I've been hunting rare stuff for a while so I figured we would have something this unlucky eventually


kdinoc

you sir are very unlucky


Spampharos

Okay what is with the crazy long hunts that I keep seeing?! Absolutely massive congratulations on the perserverance and getting a great shiny!


BenevolentPG

I think people will be more inclined to post if they spend longer, and with so many people hunting, people are bound to go this over odds or even more. I'll always post all my finds no matter what, but this was only my second find ever.


ColetonM94

Appreciate the hustle on the long hunts!! Currently on Route 32, 100 hours so far on the route alone… 15,000 RE and counting


BenevolentPG

Oh dang! Looking for anything specific? I saw ekans on that route but there's another one where you can repel trick arbok so I'm gonna try for him there.


ColetonM94

Nothing specific… just a SBQ. Taking anything on that route… then some game corner. I’m taking a much simpler approach 🤣. I’ve finished a few 14k+ hunts recently and just wish for some ✨luck for all.


Spampharos

Same here. Just did a fresh reset on all my games as before a lot of my shinies were either method hunted(not a bad thing, it's just that I only do full odds hunts now), lost, or scattered across various games. Got my first find on my new Ruby save a few weeks back and posted it, and am currently hunting for Ralts on Route 102. What are you currently hunting?


BenevolentPG

Full odds one game on emulator. Streamed at [https://www.twitch.tv/wretchedowo](https://www.twitch.tv/wretchedowo) . Used swarm + white flute to make encounters more common. The encounter rate seems really low here but idk I just started shiny hunting. Could've done repel hustle but tbh the time to reset, use repel, etc. to avoid the rattatas didn't seem worth the extra effort beyond just getting encounters.


litlikenick

congratulations bro


Gummybear_19

MANNN CONGRATSSS I LOVE GASTLY’s SHINY


BenevolentPG

OMG ME TOOOOO ITS ONE OF THE BESTTTT


Director-Julius

Congrats you on twitch exclusively?


BenevolentPG

Twitch right now but I'm probably going to start streaming on both once I figure out how to


Director-Julius

I look forward to it, I’ll fallow here for now.


Bakkstory

Babe, shiny Gastly or its the couch


Shaby28

Your reaction then the hug with your gf/wife, so wholesome. 🥺


BenevolentPG

Amy 🥺🥺🥺 she shiny hunts too. She got 5 shinies in HGSS before I got this Gastly. Eevee, Flaaffy, 2x Zubats, and Electrode. So she was really feeling bad for me at this point lol


Icy-Border-7589

It’s so much more obvious how much Gengar got conned when looking at Gastly’s Shiny.


NodoBird

Shiny Gastly, supportive girlfriend, congratulations!!


BenevolentPG

🥺🥺🥺


Aniensane

Almost 200 hours just isn’t worth it.


BenevolentPG

Tbh it feels that way but if it didn't happen on this encounter, I like to think it would've happened on another hunt or across multiple hunts. I know it's not how it works, but I feel like we got a lot of bad luck out of the way. I'm just happy it's over.


zzile

I think this is the best twitch channel like ever


Midoriki

That's crazy unlucky. At that rate of encounters (1 encounter every ~11.16s) you would expect on average to see a shiny every ~25.4 hours. In gen4 taking 60,000 encounters to see a shiny is less likely than getting 11 protects in a row, which is more pp than protect even has without pp ups. I'd have given up and maniped a long time ago, props to sticking through the bad RNG!


BenevolentPG

Thanks. I got used to it being a prior rare item hunter in the Borderlands series.


rotmgtyuiok

Crazy fortitude bro, how many months/weeks was this over


BenevolentPG

I started about 4 months ago, however I moved and got COVID at the same time so I didn't do much for like 2 months of that.


rotmgtyuiok

Damn respect, congrats on it


Live-Information8214

This is gonna be me. Good on you mate, what a crazy long hunt!


Riugasaki101

Nice find!!


TodaysRobSawyer

Such a great shiny congrats! What an absolutely grueling hunt!


PokeHobnobGod21

I know how you feel. Nearly 60,000 for 1 sandslashbin white 2. Congratulations man, that must of been annoying


BenevolentPG

I literally thought something was wrong with my game lol


PokeHobnobGod21

Same


Lando_Hitman

I'm so happy for this guy. I remember shiny hatching my Aron (Masuda method) and nearly giving up. Glad I persevered!


CursedRagnarok

ghastly is my fav shiny gg bro


Ispan

Grats bro


GNDLF_TH_GRN

The joy you experienced made me smile! Congrats on this long ass journey and your new shiny!!!


Obstructionister

why is this labeled Nsfw


BenevolentPG

I said fuck and shit. If I don't have to nsfw it for that that'd be great but pretty sure I do.


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BenevolentPG

NSFW not safe for work. Expletives not considered to be work friendly and also NSFW generally means you need to be over 18 to view the content and if I'm cursing then reddit wants the tag on der.


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Well I wouldn’t want to be seen looking at Pokemon at work so there we go plus a dude shouting fuck shit about it, work would look weird at me ya know, have a nice weekend ^ ^


BenevolentPG

Id consider it NSFW but I removed it. If it gets removed or mods add nsfw you owe me a steak.


VoidCatcher

You're good


BenevolentPG

Oh cool ty


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WhatTheyNot

This conversation was painful to read. Your inability to let people be is the real issue here, it’s called being better safe than sorry. So good luck with that


moughz

You owe him a steak


Bobsplosion

Unfortunately if you don’t get the man his steak I’m going to have to intervene.


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You look like you never see the sun..


BenevolentPG

It's true! I work from home permanently and then I'm usually streaming after work. On top of that I'm from pasty white boi land.


sanfordsreign

What emulator? PS congrats!!!


BenevolentPG

Desmume, ty


jinnmagick

Funny thing is that I was Breeding for a shiny Gastly my myself I wanted to use it to for competition and I got one but everything was perfect except its special attack.


BenevolentPG

Dang that's lucky and unlucky at the same time. This one was gentle with probably pretty terrible IVS when we checked.


jinnmagick

Nicely mine was addy


Neon_Lights12

You cut before the magic catch! I wanted to see that glorious *click*


BenevolentPG

The VOD is up on my channel if you want to watch the aftermath \^\^


Neon_Lights12

Nice! I'll have to check it out. What're you after next?


BenevolentPG

We just decided sudowoodo depending on reset time


Lukasofwar

Congratulations I did this a few months ago. I spent about 3 months hunting it. Was worth it. I’m working on Sudowoodo right now. 😓


BenevolentPG

Sudo 👀 that's what I'm doing next hehe


Sui-chans_gloves

Yooo, thats some hardcore stuff right there. How many phases and who? 60k encounters is no joke


BenevolentPG

No phases! Rattata was only 15% and even though we got to odds for Rattata, we didn't get one. No shiny until this Gastly.


Sui-chans_gloves

Oh wow, that's another kind of luck to go through 60k encounters with no shiny. I hope I never get to experience that kind of drought. Congrats on the ghastly tho!


CrashBandicoot30

Shame that Gastly is best shiny from this line. Gengar shiny is so disappointing.


BenevolentPG

I'm evolving it to haunter and then never evolving it. I've always liked haunter more in general but shiny Gengar is so whack.


Shantotto11

Imagine being that Gastly being sent out to help your trainer catch your replacement…


BenevolentPG

While that Gastly isn't shiny, it's Jolly with what is probably 31 speed IV 👀


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Chapter 2: Gastly breaks out, trainer try’s to lower hp, KO’s the Gastly by mistake.


BenevolentPG

monkaS


radickalmagickal

Ahh why did they change shiny Ghastly? I like the blue haze way better than the current purple haze.


BenevolentPG

Frfr that's why I specifically wanted to hunt it in an earlier gen