It happened!! I finally got shiny Tepig after 8532 SRs :D I've wanted this shiny for so many years because of Emboar's shiny, and I've done a few SRs in the past too before I started counting during this hunt.
Nature is Naive and he Likes to run, so a very fast piggy.
Edit: I just realized I started this hunt on September 29th, 2022. So it took almost exactly a year to get it, today is September 28th, 2023.
So I started Legends: Arceus back up again last night to try and finish collecting all the Old Verses, Unown forms, and wisps (I ended up finishing that tonight) and a little while ago I caught a shiny Bergmite on my way to one of the wisps!
It wasn't even a mass outbreak or anything, so full-odds, too! And I was lucky to find it because I pretty much completely forgot about the shiny Pokémon spawn sound and had my volume pretty low, so I'm surprised I could even hear it.
So I go back to Jubilife to check it out in the pasture and- APPARENTLY I CAUGHT A SEPARATE FULL-ODDS SHINY BERGMITE OVER A YEAR AGO?!
and one's male and the other female, soooo... I guess they were just meant to be together! I guess say hello to the new couple! I'll have to give them proper nicknames and evolve them.
I named him Morsel <3
Extremely relieved to find this shiny after 14 months of hunting. Mind you this wasn’t done religiously, as I’ve been quite busy with school, but it was a long time coming nonetheless!
I’ve always been pretty flexible with my approach to shiny hunting in BQs, and Tyrogue being my target for Claire despite having already beaten Claire over a year ago is a funny example of that! And since I don’t plan on doing the Kanto part of SS in the conventional BQ way (it has taken me THREE YEARS to get to this point and I need to be reasonable), this should be the final member of the SS BQ!
I might hunt a quick MM Magby before though to cover Kanto and because I really want a shiny Magmortar in 4th gen. Maybe.
Somehow stumbled on my third full odds shiny in like two weeks??? I’ll absolutely take it because I love the Grubbin line, but I have no idea how I got this lucky 🥰🥰🥰
Shiny Trubbish found at 4871re! This was found after phase 3 and a nice total of only 7272re which is insane!!!! This hunt has been very kind to me!
Under the cut is more rambling and phases.
The previous phases of this hunt were Solosis and Minccino both under 2k each.
This hunt was also a part of my bingo! So I’m moving on to new targets!!
Summer has been so busy and I really want to make a recap post! So perhaps soon I will do that! Take care everyone and good luck with all your hunts ❤️❤️❤️