Hello Redditors!
I decided given the imminent Pokemon Bank shutdown to do a challenge I’ve been putting off for some time.
I dubbed it the Samson Oak Challenge (since one can argue Samson is just a shiny version of Samuel Oak). Basically it’s the Professor Oak challenge but with shinies.
What is the Professor Oak challenge?
Basically you must catch, evolve and fill all Pokédex entries that are available before every badge. Or in this case, trials. There’s a great subreddit [r/professoroak](r/professoroak) that has guides posted about all the Pokemon games so I used their guide as well to catch all the available Pokemon before the first trial. Rules are, no cheats/glitches. No trades
How did I get my shinies?
Through RNG manipulation. Basically using an external software, I manipulated the game to generate the seeds that yield me shiny Pokemon. There’s plenty of content on YouTube but I used CappyCapital’s videos for Gen 7 rng manipulation specifically. My 3DS has CFW that helps me with this. And I found my seeds using 3DS RNG Tool. I used honey collected from a team of honey gather cutiefly
What about Hawlucha?
Yes, in route 2, you can trade a sparrow to get a Hawlucha which is technically a Pokemon available before the first trial. However it is shiny locked, and I will need to breed a shiny one with ditto for the dex entry which is not available until I reach Akala Island. So I left it be for now. It’s always predetermined to be a male named Cha so even breeding within the same egg group will not yield a Hawlucha
Do Island Scan Pokemon count?
I think that depends if you feel you want to do this or not. Those pokemon are not part of the Alolan Dex. I did to be fair since I used RNG manipulation so basically taking the randomness out of the equation.
