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I'm doing a shiny badge quest, what should I hunt?

Hey_PIKMIN
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I've been wanting to get into shiny hunting for a little while now, and I figured what better way to get into shiny hunting then doing a shiny badge quest! (Pokemon but for every gym you need to hunt a shiny). I am playing Heartgold and I'm going to hunt the Johto starters (I'll hunt them all at once and then I'll get to use them in whatever order I obtain them in) as well as Ho-oh, Dratini Ditto and Eevee, what else should I hunt?

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  • Hey_PIKMIN
    Hey_PIKMIN Member Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
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    #2

    Adding some extra information, I will be hunting 20 Pokemon in my playthrough but two of them are going to be immediately after Red, one for each gym and champion battle, I guarantee that I will hunt Chikorita, Cyndaquil, Totodile, Eevee, Dratini Ho-oh, and Ditto (I have a reason that will be revealed later) as well as Treecko and Charmander after the game. Please give me good shiny suggestions!

  • clasingla
    clasingla Member Posts: 3,114 ✭✭✭✭✭
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    #3

    no specifics finding 20 shinys alone is going to be extremely difficult

  • Hey_PIKMIN
    Hey_PIKMIN Member Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
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    @clasingla I'm just asking for some good shinies, I'm already doing a tier list of them but I wanted to know what you guys want me to catch

  • Eremas
    Eremas Member Posts: 985 ✭✭✭
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    shiny Porygon2 and shiny Smeargle

  • Hey_PIKMIN
    Hey_PIKMIN Member Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
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    I might try Porygon2 but I don't think I'm going to choose Smeargle

  • Hey_PIKMIN
    Hey_PIKMIN Member Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
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    #7

    I've decided to post regular updates here!

    Day 0 - I started hunting the Johto starters on March 16th, 2 weeks ago but I still haven't seen a single shiny starter which is odd since finding a shiny starters is 1/2700 (much more likely). I count this all as day zero because today would be the first full day of the run, I think I may have failed 2 shiny Cyndaquils yesterday but I have no proof of it. Losing motivation hopefully will find a shiny on day 1.

  • Acornyo
    Acornyo Member Posts: 733 ✭✭✭✭
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    I feel like you should hunt for shiny Wooper. The type combo is relatively OP, seeing as though you can send him out to tank most attacks. Either that or Marill. I like him.

  • Hey_PIKMIN
    Hey_PIKMIN Member Posts: 1,049 ✭✭✭
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    What I haven't decided yet is if I can breed Pokemon, I would like to attempt as many methods as possible but breeding seems like cheating as I would have a non shiny to breed with

    I think that it would be fair as long as I hunt a shiny ditto first

    @Acornyo I plan to have both Totodile and another water type, Wooper and Marril are both cool and Politoad is good too, to many descions

  • Hey_PIKMIN
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    #10

    I may also do one in S/V that'll probably start first

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