The Hardest Shiny Hunt You’ve Never Heard Of

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Pokemon’s shiny hunters are some of the game’s most dedicated players. While it takes a few hours for competitive players to breed each Pokemon with perfect IVs, and a little more time to EV train them, shiny hunts are indefinite. My quickest was six eggs for a shiny Lapras (I was hatching for IVs, not even hunting - classic) and my longest is well over 3,000 encounters now. I’ve been after this damn Roggenrola across two generations now.

Most shiny hunters try to maximise their odds for obvious reasons. The Masuda Method, which involves breeding Pokemon from games with different default languages, is a tried and tested shiny hunt. Hatching five eggs at a time makes it a fast and effective way of getting shinies. If you’re not hunting anything in particular, the Crown Tundra’s Dynamax Adventures have the best odds of getting a shiny - a huge one percent chance. But some players seem to embrace the grind, and find the hardest possible methods just for the thrills of overcoming insurmountable odds.

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Some players like to start their playthrough with a shiny starter. This can take hours, as they soft reset the game time and time again in the hopes that their PokePartner will sparkle. Soft resetting for Legendary Pokemon is also common - for those that aren’t shiny locked, that is - but there’s a commitment to cracking open a brand new Pokemon game on release day and not starting your adventure proper for weeks because you want a shiny Cyndaquil. However, there’s an even more difficult shiny hunt, where the odds to even encounter a Pokemon are startlingly low, let alone a shiny.

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