By: Wretch · Posted on Mar 23, 2025 at 5:22 PM ·

Hi everybody! In the days following the big post this week I finally found shiny eevee! I would have way more fanfare about it but I am planning to compile a big post with all the phases and pictures of the evo so that is in the works. But wow was it exciting lol. Since then I have setup the gift lucario hunt and the raikou hunt. Unfortunately in the process of setting the Raikou hunt earlier I accidentally deleted the save with shiny entei :/ Because of that I decided to take a bit of a break from all those hunts and quests and have a little fun week of sos hunting! I am currently in the process of setting everything up, getting a smeargle and a phantump all ready to go and I just love gen 7 so so much. Hopefully I can have a fun roundup next weekend and show you a bunch of cute fun shinies! Good luck on all your hunts and bye for now... Wretch signing out

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By: Wretch · Posted on Mar 20, 2025 at 11:44 AM ·

Okay guys, it's been a while since I had a genuine update with pictures of the shinies so expect some awesome pics at the end of this! A few days ago as I was setting up for phase 5 and deciding between doing the dog trio or another phase for Eevee I found a super cool mod on twitter from @norainthefuture (go check her account out she's awesome) that added more horde pokemon and adjusted a lot of the original horde pokemon available. Since eevee was one of the pokemon she added to hordes (route 10/ 35% under Hawlucha's 60%) I decided to add it to the game. I thought it would be super cool to make this X/Y badgequest a little more original by including it alongside the shiny locke removal. I did normal random encounters for this phase but I will be doing horde encounters for the next few phases, I am not really concerned with the time the hunt is taking and as I have said before I am happy to phase, but Gen 6 was always magical for me because of horde hunting. That is where I got my start as a shiny hunter and full odds hunter, it was a quicker method to find shinies than pure random encounters but just as fun! There has always been something so special about getting an encounter where you can see 5 pokemon, wondering just which one will be shiny and where in the group it will be located. I have a massive soft spot for horde hunts and am honestly hoping I have a longer phase with 6/7 because of how much I enjoy the encounters lol. But that is for future Wretch to discuss when she inevitably gets another shiny that is not eevee lol. For now let's get back to the hunts over the past few days.

I was enjoying another jaunt through route 10 when suddenly disaster struck after only 4,031 encounters....... Shiny hawlucha!!! just kidding lol, of course I am happy about shiny hawlucha. He was found smack dab in the middle of one of the modded hordes and was so cool to witness. I really can't complain about my phase luck here, yes it blows being stuck at route 10 for 2+ weeks when I have been going hard shiny hunting but also this is the 5th non-repeat target and at this point I have gotten basically everything I want from this route BUT eevee lol (no offence gollett and snubbul, one of you is saved for a future hunt and the other I already have). Hawlucha is such an insanely good shiny, the purple and black make it look just as cool as the original and I really did consider making him the 4th badge member over eevee, but my girlfriend convinced me otherwise and I will continue on for sylveon!

The Legendary Dog Trio! Oh boy this hunt has been a blast. I set up my three 3ds' I hunt with to each encounter one of the three legends and it was so fun seeing all three of them each time. If I ever do another legend hunt in gen 7 (i almost certainly will) there is a 100% chance I do a very similar setup to this one. I am thinking Gen 5 box legends next or maybe the swords of justice... we shall see. With the hunt ready to go I was locked the fuck in on Sunday. My girlfriend had just left after her trip and to make sure I had something to focus on other than moping I went absolutely insane with encounters. I cleared nearly 5k on the 16th and if Shiny suicune didn't show up after 4,473 encounters I am fairly certain I would have gone further lol. I nearly screamed when I saw it, such a magnificent blue on these games it is hard to understate its beauty. If you are reading this and want a fun quick hunt (the sr's are pretty fast) absolutely go hunt a gen 7 Suicune. It is so pretty. The only downside to getting a shiny suicune was that I lost a bet lol. I asked my entire family + my girlfriend to guess which mon would shine first and suicune was picked the absolute most... and I promised them all little trophies if they got it right, so I have spent the past few days 3d printing them all cute golden pokeballs. It was fun though and after returning to the Hawlucha hunt I just talked about I was ready to go for target 2/3. Raikou is my favorite of the trio so I had 2/3 games on raikou and one on entei, I knew though that with my luck there would be no way Entei didn't shine first and after just 2,613 soft resets I got him today! I always saw his shiny as the more boring of the group but after an encounter with shiny Entei I stand corrected. It is definitely not nearly as in your face as the others, but lord it is still very purddy. I am Very happy with both but I am ready and excited to fully commit to getting that raikou, one of my prized shinies to say the least. And with that you guys are all up to speed on my hunts this week! Before I go though I want to do a small little stat roundup for all the hunts I have done since starting the blog.

Stat round up! I have a lot of numbers I want to talk about but to keep this short and simple I will only be doing a few. After 10 shiny hunts here are a few interesting stats!

Longest Drought - 6,842 Encounters : Broken by Shiny Emolga
Longest Single Console Drought - 25,626 on my Lime 3ds LL : Broken by shiny Entei
Total Encounters so far - 30,766
Total Shinies caught - 10
Average Encounters before Shiny - 3,077
Shortest Hunt - 22 Encounters : Shiny Furfrou
Average Encounters per Shiny adjusted without Furfrou - 3416

And with that that's all I have to share so until next time everyone Thank you all for reading and hopefully I will see you again soon, happy hunting and good luck!

Shiny Dog's So far

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By: Wretch · Posted on Mar 18, 2025 at 10:52 AM ·

Another phase over, and a rarer target than Eevee lol, but im not complaining. I got an awesome Shiny sigilyph, which I did nearly fail (because I thought thered be no way I see it before shiny eevee)! I am perplexed to say the least though, I said between phases or every few phases I would be doing my legendary beast trio hunt, which is true, and I was waiting to share more about it until the set is complete, but I need to discuss how the last 4 shinies and the last 14K encounters have all been on my blue 3ds XL. I triple hunt, so youd assume at least one other console would shine but noooooo. Not to mention this insane phase luck with eevee. Like sure, its a 20% encounter, it will take 4-6 phases on average, that is what I expected and understood BUT 3 DIFFERENT SHINIES THAT ARE RARER??? Yanma is a 30% horde encounter, and those only happen 5-10% of the time, emolga was a 5% and now this beautiful 10% sigilyph? I have no idea what is going on lol, I mean one of my consoles hasn't seen a shiny in 20k encounters and eevee seems incredibly well hidden lol. Regardless I happilly soldier on, I am getting some awesome shinies, I am getting some funny outcomes, and it has been a hoot. I think I mentioned before, but in case I haven't, I will be making a huge post with pictures and stories about the hunt once eevee is here, but until then I will be saving them. Until next time guys! Good luck on all your hunts!!!

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By: Wretch · Posted on Mar 15, 2025 at 9:09 PM ·

Well as im sure it is clear by the title, the Eevee hunt is not over yet lol. I have no complaints, every phase thus far has been something I like in this route I would probably never hunt otherwise... but this last one is especially nice. I got a Shiny Emolga which on route 10 in X/Y is a 5% encounter!! Obviously im a little sad it is not the target, since I want to progress the badgequest, but it will be a very long time before I am mad at getting such a rare and nice shiny. My 3ds's (I multi-hunt) all have some color variance in screens so throughout the hunt I was constantly second guessing the emolga encounters since I thought it was a subtle brown shift, but wow I did not expect it to be so incredibly bright and nice looking. In my opinion it is one of the best gen 5 shinies now lol, it just has such a cute look for a cute mon. With Phase 3 over though, I will be moving on to the Legendary Dog trio in usum. The X/Y badgequest will be revisited very soon but I want a break from these encounters lol, thats 13.5k combined now just on route 10. Maybe ill finish the trio, maybe ill just get one and come back, idk yet, but I do know im very happy with my shiny emolga and I will see you all next time.

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By: Wretch · Posted on Mar 13, 2025 at 8:40 AM ·

This week I have had my girlfriend over visiting so I have not been able to hunt an absolute ton... BUT! I did get two shinies in the badgequest! Unfortunately they were a Yanma and a Houndour so not the target Eevee but im not mad at all cause I love both of their shines! I will post both of their pictures when the eevee hunt is done along with more info :P but as it stand I am 1275 into Phase 3 and was thinking on potential next hunt ideas. I think if I phase again for eevee I may take a break and start a new but admittedly smaller quest in USUM. I realized recently I have never actually hunted one of my absolutely favorite shinies ever, Shiny Raikou, and absolutely need him. Thankfully the entire trio can be found in the wormholes so I really want to attempt to get the whole set! the resets are very quick from what I remember so we shall see, unless of course Eevee blesses me then I will probably move up to shiny Lucario! See yall next time!

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By: Wretch · Posted on Mar 6, 2025 at 3:16 AM ·

Hi everybody!! Just a quick lil update, I got shiny tyrunt super fast!! Only 1578 fossils restored! I feel like my luck has been incredible so far. Kind of funny that I decided to go for Tyrunt too after Furfrou took almost no time at all, and the secon gym shiny's still ended up taking less than 2000 encounters lol. I absolutely love this shiny, and I am so glad it's a girl! This is the furthest I have ever gotten with a badgequest. I think its because I have been having some of the most fun I have had shiny hunting ever because of this blog and this fun lil badgequest so hopefully I will be able to stick out the rest of the encounters! I am just chilling tonight so I will be right on my way to beating gym 2 and starting the Eevee hunt, here is hoping that one isn't too many phases! Bye for now...

P.S. Here is a picture of my sweet shiny furfrou, shes so adorbs (i forgot to post one till just now lol)

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By: Wretch · Posted on Mar 2, 2025 at 2:33 AM ·

Hello! Before I give an update on the badgequest I wanted to talk about Monster Hunter Wilds cause I have been playing quite a bit of that when I have time! The game is awesome, one of the best raw experiences I have had exploring and hunting different monsters, it has been a blast. The one aspect that has soured the game a bit for me though is the constant dialog and on rails walking sections... I am literally taking a break from a multi-hour session right now cause I have zero desire to go see another fucking cutscene or walk through a pretty area I want to explore while I can't do much lol. It is almost certainly one of the best Monster Hunters but good god the story has a bit of a problem with pacing. That being said when it is time to just hunt, its a blast, so I fully recommend if you like monster hunter or want to give it a shot (unless ur on pc, wait until they patch performance, it is ROUGH)

With that out of the way it is time to give a Pokemon X badgequest update. So for the past few days inbetween hunting and preparing a speech, I have been divising a final and perfect target list! Along with setting up for my next hunt. While I didn't want to have a solid plan, I figured it would be fine once I got through what should be the longest hunt by hours spent with Froakie. Then Furfrou showed up in 22 and now im 2 targets in and it was definitely time to do it.

So some explanations. Gym 1 and 2 have a massive amount of game time between them, and I have been wanting to hunt both furfrou and a fossil in these games for a long time, combined with furfrous insanely quick hunt I decided to tack on Tyrunt here! That means there will be 9 total instead of 8 but oh well. Getting the Tyrunt fossil was a bit of a time sink since I figured if you get 3 identical fossils you actually save time, but it took about 2.5 hours per save to reach the fossil point! Now, Eevee will of course become a Sylveon, since she has such a great shiny. And the Lucario will be the gift Lucario with shiny locke removal! Hopefully I can start on Tyrunt tonight!

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By: Wretch · Posted on Feb 28, 2025 at 5:46 AM ·

okay I will make a proper post later since I don't have a photo but I just started my next target in the X badgequest and I am in disbelief, I just got a shiny furfrou, the fucking target, in 22 encounters. I am not even kidding, I just finished figuring out the encounter time and it just appeared I am in awe. I have never had this level of luck before...

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By: Wretch · Posted on Feb 28, 2025 at 4:20 AM ·

Oh my god this might be the best pokemon presents we have gotten in a long while, not to say others have been bad but very rarely have we gotten interesting news outside of the mainline AND a trailer for the new game! Pokemon champions looks absolutely incredible, I love Battle Revolution and have always enjoyed when they make games that focus on some of the individual parts of the series (think pokemon ranch, stadium, sleep etc.). I can definitely understand why some people are a bit hesitant about the software being paid but I personally think it will probably function a lot like stadium, XD/Colo, and Battle Revolution did over the years. The mention of pokemon being available in the game itself also has me pretty excited! Generally any spin on the main series that is fun, dynamic, and looks cool (like this trailer did) I am all fucking in on!

I have not gotten a chance to mention it here yet, but I am a huge fan of the Pokemon TCG. I do enjoy collecting but thats for from attainable anymore with the current state of the market but my absolutely main joy of the series has always been the game itself! The Mega reveal has me hyped. Those cards were always so cool looking and always seemed incredibly powerful. Though I lack personal experience of the comp scene in the era that they were around, they always seemed incredibly clunky to me, so I like the pivot to better EX's with more prize drawback. I feel like this is the fourth gimmick we have seen introduced in this era though, and frankly I can't really remember any that have actually impacted the meta. Terapagos has been pretty good for what its worth, and we have yet to see the trainers pokemon in action in the US tho so I am hopefully wrong about that. I do think however this will be either super fun or super annoying... just like the team up mons of the past lol. Whatever the case though I am all in and unless the scalpers decide to make my life hell, I will be making some mega decks later this year!!

Now for the most important part! Z/A!!!!!!!!!!!! Oh my god it looks so good. Obviously I am not dull to the fact that it is behind many many many modern games but yk what I am just happy to see them actually put more time and effort into the games after Scarlet and Violet. I loved those games to death but lets be honest, the only part of the visuals that looked nice were the trainers and the pokemon. It is nice to see an upgrade to the visuals of the enviroment and I have faith. I love the starters, I love the location, I loved the characters (Especially AZ), I loved the wild areas, and I absolutely love the battle mechanic they introduced. I am a little hesitant on it, as I did not really enjoy Legends Arceus battle styles BUT this is something I have wanted to see in a pokemon game since I was a kid and even thought id probably disagree with kid me's opinon on pokemon its only fair I give it a shot first! Megas look so fucking good with that rainbow effect, the interiors look so well designed and carefully put together, seeing the isnide of the looker building again was nice, just in general these games seem so promising. I am a tad reluctant about the setting being inside a city all by itself but I feel like we have way too little info to actually start worrying about that now. In my opinion I assume it will be fine, they seperated the city map in XY and if they scale it right I definitely think it is feasible to make three big areas to explore, not to mention the potential for the resort area to make a return (the battle tower tease at the end for example) and for them to introduce some new underground. Whatever the case, I am incredibly excited and everything about this game looks so cool. I think we have a great year of pokemon ahead of us... kind of a good time to start a pokemon blog :P

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By: Wretch · Posted on Feb 27, 2025 at 6:11 AM ·

First of all, happy pokemon day to all. I don't have much else to say on the topic currently as the pokemon presents hasn't happened yet, but as I am trying to celebrate (before monster hunter wilds consumes me lol) I wanted to absolutely crazy shiny hunting today... well Shiny Froakie had other ideas as he shined on this early morning after just 3,540 soft resets!!! I have wanted to get a shiny gen 6 starter basically since 2014 so to finally get to see the Shauna cutscene with sparkles was incredible. So happy to have this lil cutie, and sorry Fennekin that it was not you but maybe next time (if I can ever convince myself to do this hunt again lol). See you all later!

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By: Wretch · Posted on Feb 23, 2025 at 9:45 PM ·

Okay before the foongus post I mentioned how I intended to start a special project on monday, well... I didn't lol. It has been a pretty busy week but I did start it this week, and as the title suggests its a Pokemon X badgequest! While Black and White were the games I first found a shiny, Pokemon X and Y were the first games I really started to shiny hunt. With Pokemon Z-A over the horizon and a real urge to hunt I thought now would be a fun and timely moment to start a badgequest. I was a bit hesitant to call it a badgequest because the idea of going for 8 shinies in one save was daunting, but I felt like the 1/4096 were too low and I had too many potential targets to not at least try. Worst comes to worst this will simply be a dream team quest in a few months but we shall cross that bridge when we need to lol. I am super excited to jump back into a badgequest, the last one I did was in B2W2 and after a grueling 32k encounters on my first member (I will discuss this one day lol, I have a pretty funny video) I lost most motivation. BUT this time that hopefully will not happen, lol... Hopefully I can have a few updates soon but before I go I want to share some of my targets and what I am currently hunting!.

I am usually not the type to hunt for starters in badge quests or DTQ because I find them pretty overdone, but this time I really wanted to find a shiny froakie/fennekin. I have hunted both before in the X/Y soft resets but the long cutscene detered me, this time around though they are oddly enjoyable. Since the soft resets take so long I decided it would be fun to do something a little out of the ordinary and I will be switching targets every 1,000 resets. I am currently in the 1300's going for shiny Froakie so maybe, like last time, I will be rushing back to tell you how I got one lol.

For the other targets, I only really have two more in mind. Those being Furfrou and Xerneas with shiny-locke removal.Furfrou being customizable in this game is just too good to pass up and considering its a solid party member as well theres no way I miss a chance to hunt one and Xerneas is simply just one of the best shinies ever so can't skip her. Along with those I do want to do a horde hunt and possibly soft reset for a fossil-mon but otherwise I think I am just going to play it by ear. Hopefully I will be back soon, but if not I will at least have some more to say after the pokemon presents this week, which I am eagerly anticipating. Bye for now!!

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By: Wretch · Posted on Feb 17, 2025 at 3:26 AM ·

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By: Wretch · Posted on Feb 17, 2025 at 2:12 AM ·

Okay awesome first blog post! this is not the super official full explanation i was planning to give about the sites transition yada yada but wahteever I wanna talk pokemoN!!! So for the past few days I have been hunting for a shiny watchog in pokemon black and white. A kind of bland pokemon ill admit that I haven't really seen anyone else hunt for before (im sure people have i just cant remember the last time I knew it was someones target) so you may be wondering why. Well, watchog was my first shiny ever. At some point over the years he has been lost, unfortunately. My best guess is I transfered him to my sisters save at some point and then just eventually misplaced him, but I never really knew what befell that poor feller. For the last few years I have been planning to hunt for him, but had yet to get to doing so and as much as I would like to say im doing it this week for some special reason, I can't... lol. I just felt like it was finally time to go get him. I am currently sat at 9,500 encounters on route 7 in Unove but I shan't falter!. Tomorrow I am planning to begin a special project pertaining to pokemon that I can share here, but until then I don't have much else to share. Bye for now everyone, hopefully a shiny can shock me and I can make a incredibly quick follow up post lol !!

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By: Wretch · Posted on Feb 14, 2025 at 6:19 AM ·

This is a work in progress redux of Wretch World. As the website sits dorment and I unable to progress because of simple roadblocks bugging me (i have been in over my head making this site since i started lol) I am rehashing what once was into a nice fun little pokemon blog. I hope to chronicle my challenge runs, general life experiences involing pokemon, my feelings on pokemon news and such, and most importantly.... my shiny hunts. As of now, and as im sure is very clear, this is incredible bare bones. The goal is to simply give myself a stepping stone to go off of so that in the near future i can build it up. that being said, i have zero goals in mind other than using this website for the rest of 2025. I hope i can do some redesigning, maybe work in a new color palette, but for now this is what we got, a test sidebar to the left, a test sidebar to the right, and all this empty space in the middle lol. This will not go public until my next blog entry, but for when it does, I just want to say thank you to those who have visited my site in the past, if you are returning thank you. It was incredibly fun building wretch world years ago and had been fun building it up and updating it with new stuff i found fun. I dont want the old wretch world to just up and disappear forever, so access to the original homepage will at some point soon be available, but as of now this is the new wretch world.

I will make a pinned/permanent access blog post in the coming days but for now I do want to clarify a proper introduction, explanation, and general website fixes will be coming soon. For now though, I am going back to WretchWorld roots of barebones concepts

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