Pokémon Fan Spends 5 Years On An Insane Shiny Hunt – Gameplay, Leaks & Tech

Shiny hunters are Arceus’ strongest troopers within the Pokémon neighborhood, however I feel we might have discovered the strongest amongst them. One fan did a considerably unorthodox Shiny hunt not in one of many Pokémon RPGs, however in a 20-year-old battle simulator spin-off on the Wii. Accumulating these alternate-colored monsters in it’s way more difficult than doing so in your common Pokémon recreation.

Consumer Noa_Kyogre on X (thanks, Gamesradar) took 5 years to search out Shiny costumes in Pokémon Battle Revolution. The Wii recreation doesn’t have wild Pokémon encounters, however its numerous trainers can costume up as monsters if the participant chooses to put on themed outfits primarily based on creatures like Groudon, Kyogre, Roserade, and Lucario. Nevertheless, it’s attainable to search out these outfits of their respective Pokémon’s Shiny colours, akin to a yellow-and-green Lucario moderately than its regular blue-and-black shade scheme. It can simply take you 1000’s of hours of playtime to do it.

You’ll be able to purchase these outfits by beating a coach carrying them within the recreation’s single-player mode, however every of those trainers reveals up throughout what is actually an extended boss rush of high-level battles, and their outfits have as little an opportunity of adjusting as a uncommon Pokémon has of displaying up in a base recreation. That’s a roughly 1 in 8192 spawn probability. 

ポケモンバトルレボリューション (通称バトレボ)
日本語版と海外版 それぞれで色違いコスチューム コンプリートしました！😋💫
多分、史上初だと思います🤔
海外版は肌の色が3種類から選べるので褐色ガチ神！😍
多分5〜6年ぐらいこの厳選やってました！🤣#色違いポケモン #ShinyPokemon #Shinyhunt pic.twitter.com/20K0tvLc9F

— のあ (@Noa_Kyogre) February 8, 2026

So, if you wish to Shiny hunt these outfits, you’ll should reload and battle by way of these battles time and again simply to get considered one of them. That wasn’t sufficient for Noa_Kyogre, who has collected the complete set of six, not as soon as however twice, and asserts they’re the primary particular person to take action. The double dipping got here from discovering the complete set in each the Japanese and worldwide variations of the sport.

It’s undoubtedly well worth the bragging rights, however is it well worth the seemingly madness you’ll topic your self to to be able to get it? In all probability not, and Noa_Kyogre says they’ll by no means do it once more. I’m shocked they didn’t come to that conclusion the primary time by way of. 

Pokémon Battle Revolution was fairly maligned again within the day for being extra of a battle simulator than a full-blown recreation, however it does nonetheless have a number of the greatest animations of the collection’ 3D video games. It actually captured every monster’s persona in a means that doesn’t come throughout in video games like Scarlet and Violet, however it additionally had the advantage of a a lot smaller Pokémon choice than most fashionable video games. Pokémon Champions, the Change and cell battle simulator coming later this 12 months, is actually its religious successor, and can act because the battle platform for aggressive Pokémon transferring ahead.