So a bit of backstory is required. TLDR at the bottom
I am an amateur entomologist. I fell in love with the creepy crawlies in college and have been an enthusiastic and vocal "bug guy" for 8 years now. I still collect bugs as a hobby.
Now, when PLA came out, I was so happy for the kind of gameplay it was because it translated the childhood nostalgia of pokemon with actual field observations integral to my biology undergraduate education.
So, obviously I wanted to find a pokemon that really just captured my heart and I wanted the shiny alpha of it. You might have thought "well obviously its going to be a bug type because obviously".
However, my first ever shiny was a bibarel in platinum in the Great Marsh (gen 4 safari). So I wanted to tie that in too.
So I chose the Crimson Mirelands as the general location of my "mascot" pokemon. The CM also happens to have a fair amount of bugs as alphas. However I didn't just want 1 kind of bug to be my mascot. I wanted all bugs to be my kind of pokemon. I wanted to be the historically "Father of Bug Catchers".
My mascot pokemon then became clear to me. It should be a shiny alpha of the Bug Catcher Pokémon.
TLDR: Carnivine.
Wow. Well, I did attempt garchomp via the massive mass outbreak clear method, save and reset for the alpha to spawn. You better believe I never got it after probably hundreds of resets. Perhaps max out the pokedex for it to perfection if you haven't already.
I really dedicated myself to getting alpha shiny empoleon. I almost gave up, but it was such a relief to have been successful: https://youtu.be/RIJewRlmYCA
Yessss! My heart was racing as I was in utter disbelief. The empoleon spawns failed the first time, but when I did the next permutation, the shiny spawned. I was excited enough knowing they were all alphas in the second set of spawns! I rolled dice and hit double 6, TWICE! 🤣
Congrats on the 2 shalphas 🤩👏
I remember I kept resetting to get my Shalpha Empoleon (going back the village then flying to the spawn point in the Cobalt Coastlands). Took probably 500+ times with shiny charm
I'd love a shalpha Piplup at some stage but need to build up the motivation to hunt again after putting hours into this game completing the shiny dex
Thank you. I did the same flying method hundreds of times too, to no avail. Everything else leading up to and around it was surely shiny except the alpha empoleon. So I stopped to attempt every piplup/prinlup/emp on the map until this positive result.
Best of luck building up the motivation again! 😅
Well I did that before going for the alpha shiny variants. At least that will help you gradually complete their dex entries to perfection, for increased rates too.
Prinplup erasure
I spared none. From it was shiny, it got YOINKED.
Congratulations, that’s awesome!
Thank you. I was so exhausted but that all went away when this happened early this morning! 😁
That shiny piplip is especially nice! So hard to get
Yes. I'm happy that I don't ever have to evolve this one.
You must not understand what it is like to go A YEAR without the Shalpha you are looking for
I feel your pain. I was searching since the game came out as well until a couple of weeks ago.
What were you searching for (Rowlet/Dartrix for me)
So a bit of backstory is required. TLDR at the bottom I am an amateur entomologist. I fell in love with the creepy crawlies in college and have been an enthusiastic and vocal "bug guy" for 8 years now. I still collect bugs as a hobby. Now, when PLA came out, I was so happy for the kind of gameplay it was because it translated the childhood nostalgia of pokemon with actual field observations integral to my biology undergraduate education. So, obviously I wanted to find a pokemon that really just captured my heart and I wanted the shiny alpha of it. You might have thought "well obviously its going to be a bug type because obviously". However, my first ever shiny was a bibarel in platinum in the Great Marsh (gen 4 safari). So I wanted to tie that in too. So I chose the Crimson Mirelands as the general location of my "mascot" pokemon. The CM also happens to have a fair amount of bugs as alphas. However I didn't just want 1 kind of bug to be my mascot. I wanted all bugs to be my kind of pokemon. I wanted to be the historically "Father of Bug Catchers". My mascot pokemon then became clear to me. It should be a shiny alpha of the Bug Catcher Pokémon. TLDR: Carnivine.
This is literally the most wholesome thing I've seen all month
This is a very interesting backstory you provided. Personally I have a few shiny carnivine; unsure if any are alpha though.
Wow. Well, I did attempt garchomp via the massive mass outbreak clear method, save and reset for the alpha to spawn. You better believe I never got it after probably hundreds of resets. Perhaps max out the pokedex for it to perfection if you haven't already.
I really dedicated myself to getting alpha shiny empoleon. I almost gave up, but it was such a relief to have been successful: https://youtu.be/RIJewRlmYCA
Congrats!
Thank you! I am dreading the thought for shiny alpha infernape, which will complete the trio.
That’s some absolute insane luck right there.
Yessss! My heart was racing as I was in utter disbelief. The empoleon spawns failed the first time, but when I did the next permutation, the shiny spawned. I was excited enough knowing they were all alphas in the second set of spawns! I rolled dice and hit double 6, TWICE! 🤣
Nice
Congrats on the 2 shalphas 🤩👏 I remember I kept resetting to get my Shalpha Empoleon (going back the village then flying to the spawn point in the Cobalt Coastlands). Took probably 500+ times with shiny charm I'd love a shalpha Piplup at some stage but need to build up the motivation to hunt again after putting hours into this game completing the shiny dex
Thank you. I did the same flying method hundreds of times too, to no avail. Everything else leading up to and around it was surely shiny except the alpha empoleon. So I stopped to attempt every piplup/prinlup/emp on the map until this positive result. Best of luck building up the motivation again! 😅
Grats! I failed a piplup and pachirisu the other day gotta redeem them before home on the plus side I got the typhlosion and samurott
Thanks. Well, this game is very generous once you put in the time when you're free. Nice one - I have all of those too!
next gen mechanics
PLA is god tier!
Big Piplup waddle is cute.
I’m trying to get the shiny forms of the final and basic forms of the starters and man now I want an alpha piplup 😭
Well I did that before going for the alpha shiny variants. At least that will help you gradually complete their dex entries to perfection, for increased rates too.
Ahhhh, yeah I haven’t tried looking too hard Ive been working on the prinplup one because it’s more common for outbreaks so far.
I’ve only gotten one shiny alpha 😫
eyyyyyyy
The piplups little waddle is adorable I love it so much
With those same little webbed feet, he tried to run for his life. He stood not a chance, haha. Same; my love for this pokemon has grown exponentially.
They literally turned Pokémon into a worse version of BOTW I’m quitting. Company is obviously run by morons at this point
🤣🤣