- Joined
- Jun 15, 2018
I find it fun to shiny hunt in Arceus. Something about flying around and waiting to hear that little "bling!" is exciting and keeps me playing it. Plus I'm stupid and just like the game in general.Off topic, so feel free to ignore, but I've been trying to get some shiny's, and holy shit, how to autists have the patience for this? Matsudo Method and Shiny charm, and I've been at this shit for a week with no luck.
With that being said, after replaying the games multiple times, I've recently been enjoying editing/hacking the 3DS games to make certain Pokemon shiny. It's a lot easier than wasting hours of my life trying to breed or find a specific one, and 99% of the time they can be transferred over to the Switch games (and Pokemon Home). I've yet to come across an issue with this other than certain moves being deleted. I do go out of my way to find certain Pokemon (like legendaries) legitimately before making a copy of them to be shiny, though. I also don't do it for every single Pokemon, just ones I particularly like.
You're free to call me a cheater, but after playing a game multiple times for years, sometimes it's just liberating to hack them and get whatever. I do prefer staying in boundaries (only giving them legit moves they can learn), but hamming it up makes it more fun sometimes.
Kudos to those who do have the patience for legit SH, though.