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Shiny Pokemon Showcase

A showcase of the shiny pokemon I've found across the years and by years I mostly mean 2025 since I only seriously attempted hunts this year.
I don't really have a history of shiny hunting outside of 2025, before then I only found a few random shinies on old saves that I no longer have.
Nowadays I mostly shiny hunt on Black 1 & White2.

Cottonee
Nickname: Mary
Game: Black
Method: Random encounter

After a year of of hunting I finally found this bastard a few days after Tranquil. Really nice lucky streak. Finally freed myself from that forest.



Tranquil
Nickname:
Game: Black
Method: Random encounter

Following up the day after I found Whirlipede, this almost felt like salt being rubbed into the wound.



Whirlipede
Nickname:
Game: Black
Method: Random encounter

First shiny after 10000+ encounters. Felt a strange feeling, finding a shiny after so long but it not being the one I was looking for



Absol
Nickname:
Game: Pearl
Method: Pokeradar

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Buneary
Nickname:
Game: Diamond
Method: Pokeradar

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Arcanine
Nickname:
Game: White 2
Method: Random encounter

This one popped out to me whilst I was just biking around the Virbank Complex. Surprised the hell out of me as one would expect and I'm happy that it turned out to be a Growlithe out of all the encounters in that area.



Palkia
Nickname: Roxa
Game: Platinum
Method: Soft Reset

This one was kind of insane for full odds. 200 resets and just a day of hunting. My total encounters for all the full odds hunts I had done up to that point probably hadn't even reached 8000 yet. Had an adamant nature so giving a physical moveset was felt unique for a Palkia.



Salamence
Nickname: Dorcas
Game: Platinum
Method: Radar

This one was kind of annoying since it kept burning my scizor. I remember this being one of the few radar pokemon I went out of my way to get as a kid. I don't recall using the radar for anything else back then.



Celfairy
Nickname: Tsukikage
Game: Platinum
Method: Radar

Another garden radar hunt. Named after Cure Moonlight, along with my Gardevoir. I like how versatile Clefairy is in regards to it's moveset, I always found it useful and cool for that.



Staraptor
Nickname: Hawkeye
Game: Platinum
Method: Radar

Named after Riza Hawkeye from FMA. Just another radar hunt, an especially easy one at that.





Vaporeon
Nickname: Merry
Game:Platinum
Method: Radar

Involved a bit of soft resetting with the garden guy. Was considering evolving into Glaceon but decided on Vaporeon since I already had a Glaceon on my team.



Blissey
Nickname: Amour
Game: Platinum
Method: Radar

Nothing much to say here, got a good amount of lucky eggs from this hunt.





Volcorona
Nickname: Itsuki
Game: White 2
Method: Masuda (2500+ eggs)

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Uxie
Nickname: Fukigen (不機嫌)
Game: White 2
Method: Soft reset + Shiny charm (Approximately 300+ SRs)

Settled on this being my first shiny hunt after completeing the pokedex in white 2. Getting this one so early into attempts definitely spoiled me in regards to my expectations of hunting with the shiny charm



Shaymin
Nickname: Mint
Game: Platinum
Method: Soft reset (Approximately 1000+ SRs)

This fella is a significant one. First raw shiny hunt, soft resetting in front of flower paradise Shaymin. Man this was kind of a funny one. During this hunt I had to take the long freaking path back to the pokemon center a few times due to not being prepared and wanting to use synchronise for modest nature. Further down the line I had given up on the hunt and just wanted one with good IVs. But eventually I saw that toothpaste colored bush and flipped my shit. This is my first successful, traditional full odds shiny hunt and I will cherish Shaymin forever lol.



Skitty
Nickname: Yanis
Game: Platinum
Method: Radar

Pokemon mystery dungeon eos partner name. Might use for contest completion.





Jumpluff
Nickname: Soyokaze (そよ風)
Game: Platinum
Method: Radar

I like Jumpluff. It's not very good in anything other than maybe using status moves and being kinda fast but its cute and I like that. I remember the chains for this one being kinda tedious but thats par for the course with the radar every now and then.



Azumarill
Nickname: Moss
Game: Platinum
Method: Radar

Would've been cool if it kept the mint green from marill's shiny but oh well. Got lucky with this one having huge power. Again, not much to say as this is just a radar hunt. Named after guy who helped me with the dns exploit many years ago.



Gardevoir
Nickname: Yuri
Game: Platinum
Method:Radar

Honestly not much of a tale behind this fella besides the usual radar stuff. It did lead to me farming lucky eggs when I realised I could so so by chaining chansey. Wasn't particularly picky on whether I would be able to get Gallade or not but a shiny Gardevoir is nice nonetheless. Named after Cure Moonlight, no the genre.



Togekiss
Nickname: Tamago
Game: Platinum
Method: Radar

The one and only shiny Togekiss of mine. Togekiss is my favourite pokemon and I almost always use it if given the opportunity. This was my first shiny hunt and even though it was with radar I still flipped out when I saw that shiny. I wasn't even confident that I saw the shiny patch so in the moment I had no idea if i had just broken the chain that I had built up. Ultimately this shiny signited the flame for future hunts.



Delcatty
Nickname:
Game:White 2
Method: Random

Found this shiny a very long time ago in white 2. I was probably looking for an Eevee to catch in the Castellia garden place and found it there.



Servine
Nickname:
Game: Black
Method: -

Traded my Shiny Timburr for this a couple years ago.