Yes, PokéMondays is back. And so am I. If anything, I’m consistently inconsistent.
Today, I can happily report a long time hunt finally coming to a close. This one I didn’t keep track of the number of times I soft-reset the game. But it was a lot. I actually started this hunt a while ago. Not sure exactly when, but I know it was before Thanksgiving 2024. If I had to guess I’d say it was around 10k resets. It took so long I thought I somehow broke the game or corrupted the save file that would prevent it from ever appearing shiny. Then one night about two weeks ago while watching the original How To Train Your Dragon movie*, it finally popped. I had to pause the movie so I can drink in the moment.
The above is the encounter. Here it is after capture:
Here it is in storage:
And here is its summary:
It’s so beautiful! And I had to use the Master Ball, natch. ‘Cause a color-matching Pokéball is the best Pokéball. I’ll eventually transfer it to Pokémon Home via Pokémon Bank. But I first need to get me a Shiny Shaymin.
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* – We wanted to watch it before seeing the live-action remake. If you haven’t seen the either one, it doesn’t matter if you see the original. The remake is like 99% shot-for-shot which is good and bad at the same time. Good because the original was a good movie, why change anything and risk making it worse? Bad because if you’ve seen the original there’s little reason to see the remake. On that note, I will say that the twins Ruffnut and Tuffnut seemed to be missing a certain chemistry in the remake. I found them to be more enjoyable in the original.
