PinkWings

I'm way more disappointed in the reactions here than the proposed shiny wars changes and how it was handled.

The entitlement blows my mind.

You are 30 people who made serious real life adjustments based on a fan-made pokemon mmo game's forum post.. that had volunteer staff try to bring yet another fun event to the game for you.. that had no way of knowing what development might decide to add last minute, to benefit ALL players, unexpectedly.. let that sink in.

It's just an event.. on a game.. bunch of Karens.

You talk about disrespect.. poor communication.. owed apologies.......... look at yourselves.

I can only hope that these updates they tried to give us REALLY would have had a meaningful and positive impact on the shiny wars event, and now they won't come until it's over.

The idea would be to make it so if people in a link get into the same area and catch the same pokemon a certain amount of times, the enc rate for that pokemon, for the people in the link would increase.
So for example: Myself, Clue, BarackObama, and a random we recruit from global are shiny hunting pawniard, we all get in a link, go to route 9 and we all start catching the pawniards we see to increase our chain, lets say we need 10 pawniards caught each, now as long as no one breaks their chain by catching a different pokemon, we would all have, lets say a 5% increased pawniard spawn rate.

The numbers would be up to devs to decide based on what they think is best for the game, Im just using 10 pokemon caught and 5% boost as an example.
But the idea would be to encourage the MMO part of PokeMMO, getting people to socialize and form shiny hunting groups. It would also encourage single encounter shiny hunting which is probably the least used form of shiny hunting

kai'ckul, has reborn !! ;)

No phases

OT 30#!!!! 😄

8th Egg Shiny, 2 more Pheno Shinies to go! 10,863 Eggs

52nd Shiny Unown, 28/28 aka the last one, is here, making this a full Shiny Unown alphabet (including "!" and "?")

I started this quest initially on the 21st of january of 2023, had around 5956 hours back then, and now i just ended with 13695, took a total of 52 phases and 1.159.235 Unown encounters. Gotta mention that for the hours, not all of it was spent shunting Unowns, but give it or take, this took 6.8-7.2k hours. Money spent? I'm not really sure (and that'll probably stay as the biggest mystery on all of this quest), but between lures and Donators, i'd say over 250m easily.
 
This thing initially started as me going for only a few Unowns, but then i decided to go for 5, and after that, 10, by that point i started to believe in the possibility that maybe it could be possible, i wasn't feeling bothered and felt i was doing good enough with the phases, at that moment i truly set the alphabet as the objective, that wasn't an idea anymore, I had to deliver on this promise too.
But not all of it was hope and optimism, at points during this quest i was seriously questioning if all of this was worth, "i could spent this time hunting better shinies", "i could get rares instead of this" were some of the things that were crossing my mind. But i wanted to push myself and see how much i could go, made it so far by that point, so i felt i couldn't give up, i was conflicted, but i wanted to continue, i kept thinking to myself "all of this is going to be worth by the end", and now i can say it truly was.
 
Thank you all so much for the support, both ingame, forum and Discord; thank you @TeamMr for being there at all moments and being my constant energy to continue; thank you @Juaske for being my main inspiration to start this, you're a beast for not giving up on that Riolu, and, again thank you all the community for the messages, the support and for being there, watching me phase during these last few Unowns on this thread or following the whole thing on my Shiny diary. This might be the end of an era for me, but definitely isn't the end of my shiny hunting journey, still plenty of targets for me to get and things to do in this game. Here to wish you all a successful shunt and fulfillment for all your objectives here, i appreciate you all.

2.5k encounters, second shiny in like a week!

OT 39 - a birb

OT 29#

51st Shiny Unown, after a total of 15 phases on Dilford Chamber (7 P's, 5 R's and 2 J's) i can finally proclaim my victory with an L (ironic, am i right), only one that i have left is C, which is 50% in Liptoo Chamber. We might be close to heaven fellas

97 OT jonulo Phase 5: searching togetic shiny https://imgur.com/a/cgadkDY

Hi there! I'm Pastalava. Just a random low-budget shiny alpha hunter.

Yes. Instead of spending tons of money on breeding resources, I decided to go the alternative way: I created multiple accounts to catch Alpha Pokémon. After catching them, I transfer the Alphas to my main account for breeding – and if the offspring isn’t shiny, I sell it. \(^^)/

I started this journey on March 20th, 2024, with just 2 characters. Eventually, I thought, “Why not make more characters to catch as many Alphas as possible during their limited spawn times?” So I began to make other alt characters and multi-tasking them using both my laptop and phone. Right now, I have 12 characters that have completed all 5 regions, plus 21 more that have cleared Hoenn.

As of April 1st, 2025, I began documenting all the Pokémon I catch and breed in a simple log. Based on my rough estimation plus my documentation, as of April 7th, 2025, I've caught approximately 3500+ wild alpha and 1590 alphas through breeding. Guess what? Today turned out to be my lucky day!
 
 
On my way home from work, I was on the train when I saw a notification on the community Discord: an Alpha Venomoth had spawned in Johto. At first, I wasn’t planning to go for it, I was exhausted. But I figured that just one catch won't hurt. Little did I know, it wasn't even from an egg hunt, its a wild encounter, and its on my main character, Pastalava, and BOOM! a shiny Alpha Venomoth! I was so shocked and accidentally dropped my phone. My hands were shaking, but I stayed calm and managed to catch it with Timer Ball.


 
Maybe this marks the end of my shiny Alpha hunting journey… or maybe not. Honestly, I’m still hooked. It’s tough, but it’s also incredibly satisfying. You know,, some Alphas definitely need specific strategies to catch. Like Sunflora on Unova Route 6, you’ll need a Sap Sipper Azumarill holding an Air Balloon to counter its moves. Or Venomoth on Kanto Route 10 with its annoying Bug Buzz, best handled with a Soundproof Mr. Mime. Of course Kingdra with Outrage, gotta use Skill Swap with Own Tempo to avoid it fainting from confusion.

Here’s hoping my first shiny Alpha brings good luck for the hunts ahead!
 

Shiny Sentret after 11,218 Encounters. My First Rare 😄

Aprils HotStreak
♥ Bug'z shall
rise ♥
 
 
 

First egg shiny!!!! OT #15 Shiny Squirtle!!!
 

Around 6.8k encounters, was surprised about it lol was just farming for fossils.
 
 

52k eggs
1.5years
Here we go finally 

OT #56 

Wasnt gone, just very unlucky since june 2023. Finally broke my curse

historic day

Phase 4 : search chansey shiny  66 OT LussyNL (Alt account)
MISSION COMPLETED!!!!!!

32.1k encouter 
OT#26
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