r/ShinyPokemon 21d ago

Mod Post Monthly Question & Help Thread

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Before asking, check our FAQ to see if it has the answer to your question!


Welcome to /r/ShinyPokemon's Help Thread!

If there's anything you need help understanding, go ahead and ask! Nothing is considered "stupid" and anybody will be happy to help you. Any user is welcome to ask or answer in this thread. A new QnA thread will be posted at the start of every month!

Some things to keep in mind:

  • When asking a question, try to be specific. Include which game you are playing. Let us know what you do or don't understand so far.

  • Try a quick google first!

  • Be patient - But if your question is totally missed, just ask again!

  • Be respectful.

  • This is not a trade thread. Comments requesting trades will be removed.


Flair Verification

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Subreddit Rules


r/ShinyPokemon 21d ago

Mod Post Wanted! Month of July 2026

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Flair verification thread

Welcome to 'Wanted!' a game where you go Catch or Hatch the target shiny Pokémon! If you catch the target Pokémon it will count as 3 points toward your flair! Each user is allowed extra flair points for one (1) Pokémon for Wanted! event - any extras will be considered 1 flair point as usual. We ask that you add the date of capture to your pictures (this can be found in the Pokémon's summary). Good Luck! Have Fun!


PSA

We recommend setting your system's date to the correct day, month and year to help the mods when using the flair verification.

Be sure to take pictures for verification as soon as possible - transferring (such as to another gen via Pokémon Bank) will replace caught date with transfer date and your Pokémon will no longer be verifiable!


The Wanted! Pokemon for this month is...

Bouffanlant!

[Shiny Form](https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/c/c8/HOME0626_s.png

[Non-Shiny Form](https://archives.bulbagarden.net/media/upload/5/57/HOME0626.png

(Chosen by www.randompokemon.com)


Game locations:

Gen 5:

Black and White:

  • Route 10.

Black 2 and White 2:

  • Route 23, Route 9 (Hidden Grotto).

Gen 6:

X and Y:

  • No wild encounters.

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire:

  • Route 113 (hidden Pokémon)

Gen 7:

Sun and Moon:

  • No wild encounters.

Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon:

  • No wild encounters.

Let's Go Eevee / Pikachu:

  • None.

Gen 8:

Sword and Shield:

  • DLC.

DLC ONLY:

  • Soothing Wetlands, Soothing Wetlands (Wanderer), Max Lair (Dynamax Adventure).

Brilliant Diamond & Shining Pearl:

  • None.

Legends: Arceus:

  • None.

Gen 9:

Scarlet and Violet:

  • None.

Legends: ZA

  • None.

and breeding!


When you get one

Simply, post your pictures in the comments of this thread, or post pictures on the main sub with "Wanted!" in the title so we know it's from the game! Be sure to specify that you caught a Wanted! Pokémon in your flair verification album and when requesting flair verification.


Links!

Flair verification thread

Discord invite link

Past "Wanted!" events


1/7/2026 - 31/7/2026

MMXXVI


r/ShinyPokemon 5h ago

Gen VIII [gen 8] Was looking for a Sigilyph to Masuda method hunt with

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183 Upvotes

First ever completely random shiny in SwSh, one of my favourite shinies too! Very happy, very surprised


r/ShinyPokemon 6h ago

Gen IV [4] Second Shiny of Safari Week 2026. 1 Fail: 1 Captured!

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141 Upvotes

I love Torkoal, I set up this savannah zone in order to maybe get one for the at least the last three Safari Weeks I’ve participated in.
I was fully prepared for it to run, especially after 3 balls with no shakes. But I actually caught him!


r/ShinyPokemon 12h ago

Gen III [3] Did 31,000 encounters today for a single blue duck 🦆

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460 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] Shiny Phanpy!! Phase 33 after 40095 encounters! It's real ✨🎉

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45 Upvotes

What a grueling phase which took long weeks. Decided to do a couple more encounters than I had planned... Great! 🥳

(Teddiursa says hi 😭🤣)


r/ShinyPokemon 4h ago

Gen III [Gen 3] Phase 1 for Growlithe at 4865 encounters

54 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 11h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] Shiny Turtwig in childhood copy of Pokemon Diamond.

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186 Upvotes

Started hunting for this Turtwig on the 17th of April this year, today it finally shined at 2574 encounters!

Since I was hunting on a single console, the estimated hours for this hunt was approximately 85hrs.

It's been an hour later since I found this, and I'm still in disbelief that the dreaded briefcase simulator is finally over!


r/ShinyPokemon 7h ago

Gen III [gen 3] shiny encounter in emerald battle factory

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75 Upvotes

What is the worst shiny encounter?

Riiiight a shiny that's impossible to catch.

I play the battle factory for over a year to beat it. It was one of my hardest pk challenges. Got me finally my gold pass so it was worst the time~

The shiny was a nice suprise but it makes sense cause the ev values are not fixed.


r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen III [gen 3] freed from oaks lab after ~50k SR

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29 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Gen V [5] 758 sr after oshawott and tepig shines!

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I also did 2006 sr for this before finding oshawott as well as 10 sr for a trainer ID. Thinking of naming it Chubbs. After I play through white normally I can now immediately start my b2w2 dream team quests!


r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen IV [gen4] Shiny Electrode after 7,255 RA's!!

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24 Upvotes

FINALLY!!! After 7 days of hunting it's now finally here!! Now I can finally leave this place and continue the solo gym challenge for Dunsparce! 🥹✨

To be honest I wasn't planning to shiny hunt this Electrode but I figured out that they will never respawn again so that's why I ended up trying anyways.

I'm also glad that this Electrode doesn't know self destructing moves as if they were meant to be shiny hunted. 🫠


r/ShinyPokemon 59m ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] This feels like a bad joke!

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Shiny Magmar this time on my soulsilver copy. Fled after 4 balls. Phase 5 for Lairon. All my hgss shinies love to run from me lol


r/ShinyPokemon 1d ago

Gen IV [gen 4] WAS SURFING AND FOUND THIS

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1.0k Upvotes

SHINY ENTAI IN THE WATER??


r/ShinyPokemon 3h ago

Gen IX [gen 9] Every time I see him I remember that I do NOT regret buying the DLC

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14 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 19h ago

Gen II [Gen II] Found a shiny Celebi but... damn

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232 Upvotes

HM Enjoyer threw hands

Found it on my 342th reset and a had an master ball to but I chose to gamble like a fool.


r/ShinyPokemon 34m ago

Gen VIII [8] Got another shiny Ultra Beast!

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This one only took about a week! Excited to see results quickly :) hopefully Stakataka doesn’t take as long lol. Happy Hunting!


r/ShinyPokemon 16h ago

Gen IV [gen4] I redeemed myself

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121 Upvotes

I posted on here about 2 weeks ago that i accidentally reset over shiny lugia on soul silver. Well ladies and gentleman, im glad to say i redeemed myself and have hit and caught! I can finally continue my play through with Valentine


r/ShinyPokemon 7h ago

Gen VIII [8] Depression, determination, dopamine

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18 Upvotes

Trials and tribulations. Lapras was one of the most challenging ones I’ve done recently since they take a good bit of time to hatch. I also stopped counting after 10,000 eggs lol. After finally breaking through, my next 2 (Alolan Vulpix and Bagon) were blessed by the shiny Gods n came up in less than about 200. Shoutout determination :’)


r/ShinyPokemon 1h ago

Gen I [gen 1] iCapturé un mewtwo variocolor!" Y enviado a Home

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r/ShinyPokemon 7h ago

Gen VII [Gen 7] Oh I love sos chaining

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15 Upvotes

I failed a first chain with like 140 or sum

Then did a second one and got it with only a chain of 28

The same thing kinda happened with mankey


r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen V [Gen 5] Starting off my Pokemon White shiny team journey strong with a Jolly Tepig!

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6 Upvotes

Managed to get one of my favourite shinies (especially Emboar) within the same week I decided to start this journey, was just doing some resets whilst at work and managed to get him to shine in ~280 resets. Very happy with the nature as well to help with Emboars speed stat later down the line! Next member of the hunt will be petilil after gym one, cant wait!


r/ShinyPokemon 5h ago

Gen IV [Gen 4] First shiny of Safari Week this year! Fled after one ball...

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11 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 11h ago

Gen VI [gen 6] shiny starter mudkip on ruby omega

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24 Upvotes

r/ShinyPokemon 2h ago

Gen III [genIII] Never pause your Main hunt to visit the best post game (battle frontier)

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4 Upvotes

After starting a new japanese ruby file to do a dream team quest and finding my torchic a little over odds, I decided to hunt my second member in granit cave: Either Mawile or Aron (the one I don't find will be the hunt for the sixth member in Vlvictory road).

10,000 encounters later, I stopped to do a little pause and work further on my 100 % emerald and visit the battle frontier for gold. Well... In the battle factory, I found this green dragon (which didn't have a good move set). And after failing my task for gold in the beginning of the final round, I'm back in ruby, hoping the luck will somehow transfer over :D