kyaaa kyaaa i found two more hatchers for tonight i'm getting my shiny zigzagoon and possibly one more

USING THE TSV/ESV METHOD IS GREAT BECAUSE INSTEAD OF TRADING I CAN CATCH/BREED MY OWN SHINIES AND THEY'LL BE IN PREMIER BALLS AND EVERYTHING jflkaeh;etginors

so far I have Zangoose, Venusaur, Sylveon, Eeevee (will be Glaceon eventually), Bulbasaur, and Goldeen just in the 'premier balls' category

i also have pelipper, murkrow, octillery, and magikarp traded, and beldum/rayquaza from events

oh and pansage and stunky that I caught myself, but in pokéballs because it was too early to have premier balls making them WORTHLESS

i've been using zangoose/sylveon/venusaur as my battle maison team because i really need some move tutor BP

they're not the best IV-wise but they're EV trained and good enough to beat the first battle chataine at least so that's a good chunk of points, if not enough to actually get any of the good distinctions

my main source of frustration is that the two pokémon families i REALLY want shiny - porgygon/evolutions and voltorb + electrode - can't pass down pokéballs so if i want premier ball ones, still gotta dexnav

S I G H

oh well my shiny Zangoose is beautiful and after one Swords Dance it can basically murder anything in the battle maison that doesn't OHKO it first

i'm in love

How do you find out your tsv anyway

er, there's a guide, but it's hard to have the right equipment

usually you just ask someone to check for you there's like a thread for that and then they get a pokémon from you and check for you

although if you can work out how to do it yourself, that's fantastic

Oooh that works. And they have to check the egg value too?

yeah the ppl on this reddit will basically check any number of separate game file/egg shiny values for you so long as you agree to post a thread for hatching ppl's eggs

because obviously any 4-number combo is going to have infinite combinations and they need as many as possible

it's a bit of a read to get all the info you need going in, but once you have everything down and post your threads it's just a matter of checking in a few times a week or whenever you need somone to ID eggs

Oooh. I should try this sometime maybe

YOU REALLY SHOULD I PUT IT OFF FOR THE LONGEST TIME BECAUSE OF HOW COMPLICATED IT LOOKED BUT

i finally invested the few hours it took to get my flair/tsv/hatching threads set up and like it's so worth it??

within the first night i had two shiny eevee and had hatched a shiny rhyhorn for someone who gave me an enigma berry as a tip

there are also a lot of giveaways where people will post their breeding leftovers with the ESVs on the egg, and if you have a matching TSV then they'll just give you the egg

i got a shiny joltik that way

(LMAO ppl will do a lot to avoid hatching a bunch of eggs they don't want in order to release them)

Oooh, that's all super neat!

If only there were an easier way to trade eggs to check though haha

there's the battle video method, that's what SimplerUser uses

you basically hatch 5-6 eggs you want checked, start a wi-fi battle with someone, forfeit and soft reset without saving (you have to turn off forced saves)

and they can check the ESVs with that

and once you soft reset you have the eggs unhatched and can trade them to anyone with a matching TSV

any method also tells you what IVs/nature/hidden power the pokémon will have which can save a fuckton of time if you're trying to breed competitively

the only drawback i guess is that it's a commitment, like, you're expected to help people who help you with this

This stuff is always cool. I've wanted to breed my own shiny team but what is time

And also what is my team... I can't decide...

6 ninetales

all named kon

so you open your team and it's just

KON KON KON KON KON KON

I don't think you can have six of the same??? Gdfhbvffhhfddffc

The bv method is really easy for me to check other people's if anyone wants that, the trade method is faster for you guys because you don't have to hatch and "unhatch" the eggs :v