#jamietxt

i swear to you...... this baby eel is a shiny... LMAO

shiny tynamo!!!! at long last, i have an update for my pokemon black dream team quest. he took 20455 encounters in total to sparkle and i phased on a shiny klink and a shiny ferroseed on my path to him, but i can now finally leave chargestone cave. thankfully, he wasn't overodds for this phase (he was my 7083rd encounter).

i didn't want to do this hunt at the base 2% encounter rate for tynamo so it had some setup involved. my pichu (traded over from my copy of pkmn white; he's apparently from sinnoh!) was level 27 so that i could run a level 27 repel trick (which means pokemon at level 27 or higher were the only ones i could encounter whenever repel is active), and he also had the static ability (which increases my chance of running into electric type pokemon). this bumped my chance of running into tynamo up to a Reasonable 59%.

i had to manually reset my max repels each time (since the prompt to refresh it was actually introduced in b2w2), so that kinda sucked and made it more tiresome than a regular hunt based on random encounters, but i got into a groove with it eventually. this was the most daunting hunt for me when i was coming up with my team for this playthrough, i can't believe that it's finally over.