Pokemon Go's Shiny Jirachi Research Includes Catching More Than 1,100 'Mons

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Pokemon Go's Shiny Jirachi Masterwork Research goes live today. Costing $4.99, trainers might want to consider how many hours they plan on investing in the mobile game before handing over that money. The first two stages of the research will require a lot of work, including catching more than 1,100 Pokemon split between three different regions.

Reported by Comicbook.com, the first thing Pokemon Go players will need to do on their journey to an encounter with a Shiny Jirachi is catch 1,155 Pokemon. 385 from Kanto, 385 from Johto, and 385 from Hoenn. Before you go ahead and catch the same Pokemon over and over again, while that'll be fine for Kanto and Johto, there's an added detail for the Hoenn section that makes this first stage even more difficult.

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Trainers will also need to make sure they've earned the Hoenn gold medal. That means catching at least 90 different species of Pokemon introduced via that region. Doing all of that will get you a handful of rewards including candy for Groudon, Kyogre, and Rayquaza, but it still won't get you that Shiny Jirachi encounter.

It will move you onto stage two of the Masterwork Research though which is where things somehow get even more time-consuming. Trainers will need to get ten different Pokemon up to Best Buddy status and then earn a heart with their buddy for 14 straight days. That means stage two of the research will take at least two weeks to complete. There will likely be more to do after that as well, potentially making Jirachi the most difficult shiny to find so far.

All of the above might sound like bad news for Pokemon Go players, but completionists who continue to dedicate hours to the game will likely be