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24544 Encounters (14.661 hours). My second Safari Week shiny and one of my targets in Hoenn's Safari, sadly it fled after two balls, but it was a nice attempt, reclaiming soon.

Back in 2012 there was a official tournament where the prize was a Shiny Kanto starter of your choice. As far as i know, the mon had the "Squirtle" OT, and the winner of the tournament indeed picked Squirtle, sadly i'm sure the winner doesn't have it anymore. But out there, on some account, there's a tradeable 2012 Shiny Squirtle (or one of the evo lines) with "Squirtle" OT. The post of the tournament is still up, so here it goes.

6859 Encounters (14.552 hours). 8 minutes into the Safari (and only 34 encounters there) gave me this shiny, what a way to start my Safari Week. Hoping for the Mareep reclaim on the next 9 days!

25609 Encounters (14.510 hours). 2nd Phase Munna and the first one is here! Not the end of the Dreamyard hunt though, still gotta get a second one!

I used to have the Developer particle on my Shiny Unown (and a random Hydreigon), i have a friend that also used to have it on his Shiny Heracross. To give you a bit more info on it, it was available for a bit after the servers opened when Lunar New Year 2024 happened, the servers were open only for a very short range of time, so only a couple of people managed to get in (and even less notice the icon). This particle was quietly removed a few months after people started listing theirs on GTL, so all mons that had it lost it too. And the visual animation? It simply didn't had one, it was most likely a placeholder while they were doing the spriting work and probably forgot to remove it.

20501 Encounters (14.362 hours). 1st phase Munna, the hunt in Dreamyard officially starts now!

37967 Encounters (14.264 hours). 4th Phase Minun, close one to the target, but i don't mind this phase, pretty good shiny in my eyes. The Route 110 quest continues Also i'd like to take this opportunity to give a big shoutout to Epok for this video and the interview he gave me, was pretty fun and nostalgic giving a look back at everything i had done (either in this game and outside of it). Please give it a watch!

37381 Encounters (14.078 hours). 3rd phase Minun, still no sign of the rat, but happy with the mons for now. Made a little change in regards to the shunts since the last shiny and included Munna during night, since Minun/Plusle are less common during it. With this phase i'm officially over 40 Secret Phases for my second, one day i'm going to find you On another note, i've finally made some time to update the main post and include all my other shinies and my current/future shunts! It's still kinda a work in progress, but the essential should be there

27885 Encounters (13.914 hours). Low res screen this time because the program decided so, but managed to pull the 2nd Sentret in the last 24 hours of winter. Now's time to fully commit to Route 110

7985 Encounters (13.779 hours). 2nd phase Minun, i like most shinies in this route, so i don't mind the phases. Getting quite lucky with Route 110 for now

It's time to provide an update on the state of this thread and my future plans. But first of all, i would like to start by giving a big shoutout to @Patrouski2 for covering this entire quest and the words on his video. Thank you for what you have been doing so far to the community ❤️ Now to continue with what the future awaits for this thread: Initially, i was undecided through two options: start fresh with a new thread, or continue my journey here. After having some time to think of my options, i've finally made the decision to continue my postings and carry my shiny journey here, as i feel like it's the more simpler and straightforward way to keep everything together. Of course this doesn't mean i'm completely erasing all that has been achieved for now (and i would like to retain some of the Unown identity on this thread), but also it wouldn't go without some changes, my current plan is to repurpose this thread to include all my shinies (surprise, i have more shinies other than Unowns), archive the Shiny Unown quest (the main post) in a spoiler tag and continue posting here with my future hunts. Now, when this change will happen? Still not sure, but it will happen eventually. Hopefully this is the right decision. Again, thank you all so much for all the support and hope to see you all on this new chapter of my shiny diary, where other species awaits for us. And talking about other species, while considering the future of this diary during these few days, i came upon two shinies. Hope this is a positive sign of what's to come for the future of this thread 🙂

Looking to buy the 2013 alphabet. Forms of contact can be through here or ingame Letters i'm currently looking for: C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,P,Q,R,T,U,W,X,! and ?

2034 Encounters (13.695 hours). Everything has to come to an end eventually, right? After 2 years, 2 months and 21 days, 52 phases with a total of 1.159.244 Unown encounters and between 6.8k-7.2k hours on this quest alone, the alphabet is done. Thank you all so much for all the support you have been giving me all this time and following how this thread has been progressing, from the start, until this final update, i really appreciate all of you for being here ❤️ If anyone wants to know more in deep about my thoughts (and for the sake of not being redundant), i'll link the shiny existence post next. For those wondering what will happen with this whole thread, now that the Shiny Unown quest is over, i'll make a post updating on the situation/plan soon

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.

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

20403 Encounters (13.682 hours). After 15 total phases (7 P's, 5 R's and 2 J's) i'm out of Dilford Chamber with both targets, only one left is C in Liptoo Chamber (50%), we might be reaching the final few phases

50th Shiny Unown (yay moment?), the R's keep attacking in Dilford, i'm still not seeing an end to this L search. Phase 14th in Dilford

21756 Encounters (13.564 hours). April Fool's came late for me in the form of another R, still a long road to go it seems. 24th duplicate

49th Shiny Unown, i'm getting attacked by the R's now, L is not real. 13th phase in Dilford

22472 Encounters (13.442 hours). The typical, more phases in Dilford and target still hasn't been found. Maybe the 50th Unown will be special at least?

+1.1M TOTAL UNOWN ENCOUNTERS! It's been a bit over 200k encounters in Dilford, yet there's still no sign of a blue L. Regardless, I still plan to stay here till it shows up, need to be patient for a bit longer

48th Shiny Unown, more duplicates, 0 L's. 12th phase in Dilford, the play is not going well people. With this phase i'm also NOT proud to announce i somehow managed to break my record of phases my first Secret Shiny took, which was 31. I'm now at phase 32 looking for my second

4492 Encounters (13.315 hours). Weird looking P, 4th R. With this phase it's officially 31 secret phases since my first secret, meaning i broke my previous record. 22nd duplicate

47th Shiny Unown, do you know what's better than 8 P's? 9 P's. We so close to the double digits, i'm ecstatic friends

2647 Encounters (13.287 hours). 9th P, one more to reach the double digits, we might be able to pull it off. What's an L?. 21st duplicate