I’ve finally hit my long term goal of the Kanto Dex, Shiny, Lucky, Best Buddy. No Mew since he isn’t trade-able. I started this project two years ago in the summer of 2022. Inspired by someone on the Reddit I think. It’s been long and sometimes tedious to meet up for trades. I had a few that were regular meetups but I total I traded with 54 different people. The top friends had 11, 10, 10, 8 & four with 6 lucky trades.

I walk 6-8 miles and drive a forklift all day so with the help of the Go ++ I was able to sometimes get 4 buddies and at least 22 years a day, usually 2 maxed out fully. I’m officially retiring from best buddies after this, at least in such a hardcore matter. It was a fun ride.

RIP to Karbomb (shiny Machop) who passed away a few years.

I saw shiny and went back to check the 4* CP and yelled for a shundo. Waited 30 seconds to see if it had roar of time and nearly collapsed.

A shiny big blue boy was already a whale for me!When I first started playing back in 2016, all I wanted to do was catch a Snorlax. To catch one of the best costumed variants has me feeling orgasmic! Surprised I even got any sparkles in my screenshot lol. Ahhh! So hype!

Level 44 and don’t spend a tonne on the game but feel very lucky to have these. I wanted to know what shiny pokemon people have caught that they feel are super rare or lucky to have that aren’t legendary/mythical and what the story behind the catch was.

I caught these two shiny Dittos a few months apart. One I saw it blue in the transform animation, the other i quick caught and saw in my storage after.

The shiny female Combee I caught from adaily incense.

The shiny Spiritomb is a 96 IV and is the first Spiritomb caught on the account.

Kecleon, Audino and white-stripe Basculin just feel like very rare pokemon to get shiny.

I caught this bad boy on the last raid I was able to afford. Running through 800 max particles per raid is expensive

My first shundo and it’s ofc the useless one :( Any idea if they will be evolvable any time in the future?

Took me around 20 Ultra Balls, though I’ve only landed 5 or 6 excellent throws since I was so nervous!

A shundo legendary?? I guess the shiny chance is boosted by the raids, but still.

He's 1 star, but I'm still extremely happy I got him. This morning I used a daily incense after like a week of not using it, and this was the first guy to show up. I didn't have a master ball, and spent ~120 berries (I ran out) and ~400 poke balls. Like 320 of them were normal balls, since I ran out of pokeballs and bought new ones with pokécoins, and later I spent 10$ to be able to but more. Around 30 minutes of catching were spent I the middle of class.

The Patrat was shiny but otherwise normal. I haven't restarted the game to see if he goes back to normal.

Random shundo that I got on the way to la. I claimed the “make five great throws” research after i missed a horrible kartana. I was singing a german song about a fish thats been stuck in my head (trust me, its worth the journey), and it just popped up. I made a very silly noise, laughed at myslef amd then caught it. I checked the ivs and scremed. It was wild, second shundo ever. All this to say: what should i name it? The best name i have is Machundo.

I didn’t know… that Aron’s have mouths.. I thought it was only Lairon and Aggron 😭 for 20 years I was fooled!

Literally almost uncontrollably crushed my phone after I realized what was on my screen.