My twin brother passed away on December 31st 2024 early in the morning. Off and on for a couple years my brother had been soft resetting the Darkrai on new moon island on his copy of diamond ( I am not sure if he void glitched to get there or otherwise). He was at 20,000+ Resets according to the counter he was using so it had been a very long hunt. He and I shiny hunted off and on for a few years as it was fun and we were both interested in it. After he passed I felt it right to continue the hunt, I found the shiny darkrai after less than 100 resets. I have never cried after seeing a shiny but it hit me to the soul. I appreciate the community that comes with this hobby and I hope you all good luck in your hunts. Shiny hunting is the only thing keeping me sane this year. As a bonus I included a picture of the Ho-oh from heart gold that I just finished at 11,300 resets.

I finally encountered this stupid dumbass dragon after 25,734 encounters and over a year of hunting only for my phone to slip hitting my 3DS & dislocating the Moon cartridge

I’m going to kill my self

(it was lvl 11 btw)

it is sooo satisfying seeing all 4 colors together!

Muted the video because you hear me scream and scare my cat hehehe

Total number of encounters: 1928511 Total number of shinies: 242 (This doesn't include four Deoxys and Jirachi as I didn't count the encounters)

For Jirachi I did custom event, it's already in Home and I didn't have it backed up on original hardware. Maybe in the future I will do "original" hunt but can't justify buying a Gamecube for one shiny.

Longest phase: Plusle at 82628 encounters Shortest phase: Vulpix at 108 encounters

Average: 1 shiny in 7969 encounters

All done on original hardware on original cartridges (Japanese and Italian, I'm not Italian but English were expensive 😅) since September 2024. If you are interested in more details about this hunt, take a look at my profile since all of these are posted there with all the phases, encounters etc.

So she started playing and when she picked her starter I looked away, later when the battle started and she said what do I do now I almost got a stroke. I look over and she has a shiny! She’s confused as all hell and I can’t explain to her how crazy the odds of this are! Can anyone help me?

Didn't expect it to be so quick... ~50 SRs for this beauty

You can’t catch shadow Giratina 💀

I could do the funniest thing and use flamethrower like that one person