New Pokémon HOME Distribution Dishes Out Rare Shinies For Completing Select Pokédexes

That's pretty nifty. I was playing BD in December. Maybe I should continue my journey and complete the Dex.

Is that Ophiuchus like Pokemon?

@RupeeClock Darkrai and Manaphy (and Phione) are both part of the Legends dex in Home.

@Bobb The previous Fill-in-the-Dex-to-obtain-a-shiny was for the Scarlet and Violet dexes (Paldea, Kitakami, Blueberry Academy). There's still yet to be a distribution for the SwSh dexes. And, yes, the distributions have no time limit so don't worry.

Anyway, it's nice to see they're continuing the 'previously unobtainable shiny' theme with Enamorus. With that in mind, I predict the SwSh dexes will give us a shiny Keldeo as that fits alongside SV having Meloetta being the mythical you can obtain
in-game. Not a clue what the Let's Go games would get you. Shiny Mew?

I’m just missing a few from Legends so not too difficult I hope. I’ve got a complete shiny dex for gens 1-4.

Time to complete my BDSP dex. I already completed the Hisui dex (had every Pokemon in rank 10 even, which I thought back then was required for the Arceus quest)

I´ve never been a die-hard completionist in the Pokémon games, but I have over the years mostly kept up. I have Pokémon in my HOME storage that goes all the way back to my original Ruby/sapphire cartridges.

But GameFreak apparently doesn´t count most of them, because they need to have been caught in the actual Diamond/Pearl remakes apparently? So I guess I´m going without these freebies.

Not a huge loss to me personally, but still profoundly stupid to not honour the monsters players have caught in such an arbitrary way.

Is there a reason you need to transfer every Pokemon into home for this to work? It should be able to read the Pokedices from the game, including whether it was caught natively if they care about that.

For anyone willing to go for these, remember you need to complete the dexes in pokemon home, not the dexes in your games. What this means is you need to have had at one point every species of pokemon from that dex stored into your pokemon home, and they need to have come originally from that game as well. A pikachu caught in sword for example will not register to your BDiamond/SPearl or Legends Arceus dexes, but only to your sword/shield and national dexes.

Another tip is that for pokemon lines that you still need to register, make sure you store a pokemon to home before evolving it and then after evolving it again. For example if you still need to register piplup, prinplup and empoleon, it would save the most time to first store piplup, then move it back and evolve it, store it again as a prinplup, move it back again and evolve and finally store it as an empoleon. Now you have all three registered. If you instead evolved to empoleon before storing to pokemon home, you would now need to get another piplup.

With this, the best thing you can do is to, right now, store all the pokemon on your game to home. Dont evolve anything else, just do this first. Now you can check your game specific home dex and see what is still missing. You can then move everything back to to your game.

First get any first-stage pokemon that you are missing. When you have all those missing ones you can store them in home to register them. Now you only have second and third stage pokemon left to register. You can move anything you want or need back to your game again.

Now focus on the second-stage pokemon. Either evolve your first-stage ones or catch the second-stage pokemon anew, whichever is easier. Make sure not to evolve to the third stage yet. Now store all the second stage pokemon you were missing and you will have those registered too. Move the ones you want or need back to your game again.

Now you will only have third-stage pokemon left, and you can just evolve (or catch if possible) those, store them, and your dex will be complete and you can claim your shiny.

I have a living pokedex in home but apparently because my sinnoh pokemon are from previous generations and not BDSP specifically it doesn't count

Working on the Scarlet/Violet dex for the shiny Meloetta was a fun exercise, but I'm bowing out for these two - since they require one of the DP remakes, which I have no interest in getting (unless it was free or dirt cheap).
Now I wonder if they might actually do one for Sword/Shield.

@martynstuff I'm betting Shiny Mew is right, despite it having been available in the past. As for Legends Z-A, I'm betting on Hoopa, and Gen 10 having Victini (continuing the trend of main series games having Gen 5 since it got skipped in remakes) or Marshadow.

That'll cover most pre-Switch shiny locks besides Volcanion and Magearna... though they need to do something about all the legends + mythicals in Gen 8 DLC + Gen 9 being unavailable.

@Aurumonado I have the same problem, ugh. I do understand it from one perspective, but like also, it annoys me that all my work doesn't count

I'm really confused. I deleted my save from Legends Arceus, since it's the only Pokémon I replay on the Switch. I'll probably have to fight another Arceus to get Enamorus Shiny. TPC complicates everything for no reason, plus Mananphy also came from Legends Arceus.

@Cronodoug If you transferred Pokémon into Home at any time before deleting it then you're fine. Check the dex in the mobile version of Home, it'll tell you what you're missing.

@RupeeClock I'm not going to create a bunch of Switch accounts just to cheat at Pokemon. I like to be organized.

@link3710 Don't worry about it, it's not that big of a deal to lose a Shiny to me. I just play for fun.

While it's nice to see them doing actually worthwhile distributions that aren't locked to a newsletter that doesn't actually function for a lot of major email, I really don't like the way they count these. No, I'm not going to spend hours playing through these games (especially BDSP, I'm touching those things) to get local copies of some Pokemon I've already collected more than once over the years just because they've decided to put in arbitrary origin restrictions to exclude living dex efforts even though those are the people probably MOST interested in getting these mons.

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