iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

i havent posted on here in ages but ive been doing lots of shiny hunting and collaging in the meantime, im making my way through my gen 7 shiny dex rn, the dynamax adventures are a nightmare but ive already got tapu lele so its not too bad

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

my shiny haul for #PokemonGOFest2025! its more than ive ever got in one of these cause i played my lil heart out despite the heat and flying ants, very happy!! particularly proud of flabébé, oranguru, passimian and pikachu! wish i got skiddo/pachirisu/torkoal/frigibax but thats okay!

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

took me two failed trubbish sos chains to realise that both of the initial ones that i encountered have sticky hold so it wouldn't let me give them a leppa berry at the start, so they eventually struggled 😭

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

i can really get shinies when i lock in, 14 targets today inbetween xy, sm and usum

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

knew i was forgetting something, forgot the rest of my hashtags 😭 welp, have a look at my generation 4 shiny dex!! #Pokemon #ShinyPokemon #ShinyLivingDex

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

as i mentioned, my sinnoh #ShinyLivingDex is complete! all 107 sinnoh pokemon caught as shiny, had some very over odds hunts with this gen but cant complain too much as arceus gave me a quick hunt. as is tradition, here are my collages! on to unova!

Shiny Turtwig, Grotle, Torterra, Chimchar, Monferno, Infernape, Piplup, Prinplup and Empoleon in Pokemon Legends: Arceus

Shiny Starly, Staravia, Staraptor, Bidoof, Bibarel, Kricketot, Kricketune, Shinx, Luxio, Luxray, Budew and Roserade in Pokemon Legends: Arceus

Shiny Cranidos, Rampardos, Shieldon, Bastiodon, Combee, Vespiquen, Burmy, Wormadam, Mothim and Pachirisu in Pokemon Legends: Arceus

Shiny Buizel, Floatzel, Cherubi, Cherrim, Shellos (West) and Gastrodon (West) in Pokemon Legends: Arceus

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Serebii.net @serebii.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Serebii Update: A Pokémon Presents has been confirmed. This will air on February 27th at 14:00 UTC Details @ www.serebii.net/index2.shtml

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

i was super worried about this going over odds, cause it is a VERY slow hunt, i did about 500-ish encounters before speedrunning shining pearl on a profile that could get the azure flute just to speed up the process, and that was the game that got the shiny! switch 1/4096 SRs is something else

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

i finally locked in and setup for a shiny arceus hunt to finish off my generation 4 shiny dex and after 803 encounters, i found the god of pokemon in their shiny form!!! ive been neglecting phione, shaymin, shieldon, bastiodon and arceus for a while now but its finally done!! #Pokemon #ShinyPokemon

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

next up on max's struggle for the final few gen 4 shinies - shaymin encounters in bdsp are slowwwww, i wish i had two setup so i can multihunt it cause damn 2.5k in 26 hours?? please shaymin you're so cute let this be over soon

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

finally, after 1922 masuda method eggs, i got my shiny cherubi. there is no good reason why this took so long. welp, only shieldon, bastiodon, shaymin and arceus remain for my gen 4 shiny dex #ShinyPokemon #Pokemon

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

normally i consume pokemon leaks like crazy when a new game is coming up, but i think i'm going to try and avoid plza leaks this year, as long as i know whether or not theres a shiny indicator in the overworld, i dont need anything else

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

~1400 encounters into a masuda method (1/512) shiny hunt. why am i being treated like this why does cherubi hate me ;-; #ShinyPokemon #Pokemon

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

now that we are a month away from what will presumably be the first proper plza trailer, this is my predictions for the pokedex! im not convinced of the last row, but the other 350 are pokemon im guessing will be in the game! #Pokemon #PokemonLegendsZ-A #PokemonLegendsZA

A table of 363 Pokémon, mostly from the original Pokémon X & Y Kalos Pokédex, and a couple extra new Pokémon that got Mega Evolutions in Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire.

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

been a while!! still going with my sinnoh shiny dex, mostly just mythicals and legends left now! very shocked when primal dialga showed up, i didn't realise i had a shiny mod on soi was baffled getting this 😭

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

so im currently at a rate of 1 shiny per badge on my pokemon emerald legacy professor oak challenge, im shocked at this luck, truly lost for words.

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

on the topic of emerald legacy, ive managed to get two 1/8192 shinies already and im only just on section 2!!! got skitty in pb1 which i finished earlier today, and soon after i got horsea! i'm planning on sending all of my legacy poc pokemon to home but these'll be my priority

My pre-badge 1 save screen before fighting Roxanne. 49 Pokémon in 35 hours 57 minutes.

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

i started crystal but gave up quickly seeing how insanely grindy section 1 of that is. larvitar is a rare encounter in dark cave, and you need to level up on such weak pokemon its just not worth it.

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

whilst im doing a professor oak's challenge of pokemon emerald legacy, i thought i should post on here the one i just finished; yellow legacy! genuinely wasnt too difficult, and actually a pretty fun challenge that wasnt insanely grindy! my only nitpick is you cant get shinies

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

ive been so excited for this!! i know your guides for stuff like this are usually much more helpful for me so im gonna set this up in the new year as i get closer and closer to finishing my shiny sinnoh living dex

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Matt (Absol) @absol.standingintheodds.com · 16/12/2024

Here's my video about Manaphy and hunting it by shuffling our TID/SID with the most insane glitches Gen IV has to offer youtu.be/6HdtIVjDXA4

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691 - A NEW WAY to shiny hunt the elusive Shiny Manaphy (I got it, too!!!)

YouTube video by AbsolBlogsPokemon

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

tbh this is more a post about cosplay pikachu 😅 but like they're in everything else, why not bring them back into the main series? i think the more pikachu forms the merrier tbh, even if only the base form is added to home

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

i think one of my hopes for legends za is that it brings in a couple missing forms from the switch, namely pikachu's cosplay forms; they're very fitting with being from gen 6, they clearly fit the culture of kalos so like please :D also eternal floette which i hope is guaranteed

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

oh boy genesect is coming back to raids so guess i have another go hunt i need to do for my living dex sighhhhh luckily i THINK its just this i need from go raids now (besides deoxys for form dex but fuckkkk thatttt)

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

within packs of each other i get my first legendary ex cards wowie 🤩 im gonna go for a staryu x articuno deck so now i just need another misty and two starmie ex #Pokemon #TCGPocket #PokemonTCGPocket #PokemonTCG

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

528 encounters for my shiny tangela in lets go (multiple chains broken before that) and my switch was set to THE WRONG DATE BECAUSE I WAS RESETTING FOR FOSSILS TO GET MONEY fuckkkkkkk #Pokemon #ShinyPokemon

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

lets go is the only game where i cant bring myself to break a chain for something like chansey or pidgey normally a shiny is a shiny but not in that lmao

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 10/11/2024

400 into a tangela catch combo in lets go and a shiny chansey appears... safe to say i ran into it and then ran away, not breaking my chain for that :D (i literally already got a shiny happiny while doing bonsly sos and i already had the whole line i dont need more)

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

i love doing my silly collages so heres my plan going forward: im gonna try to do as many in their home regions as possible (gen 4 in pla, gen 6 in plza, gen 8 in swsh/pla, gen 9 in sv, etc.) unfortunately that wont work for any other gen but i want some art consistency in them! :D

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

probably naive tbh, i cant really see them patch bdsp now unfortunately. spinda will probably be in an upcoming game though so it'll be transferable to a switch game

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 09/11/2024

well my future shiny collage posts are gonna be wayyyyy easier now

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

tbh this also applies to the grand underground in bdsp

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 08/11/2024

im sure i've said this before but swsh shiny hunting would go from some of the worst in 3ds games to the best if they just made it so shinies were visible in the overworld, you'd see so many pokemon without having to encounter a single one, it would just be perfect

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

unless someone has a really straightforward dummy tutorial for setting up the shiny manaphy retire hunt then i may have to skip manaphy depending on how long the rest of gen 4 takes :( luckily this should be the last gen where i need to jump through hoops to shiny hunt, fingers crossed

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

i lied, bdsp pokeradar you are my enemy ive broken like 10 shellos chains

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

this is very satisfying tbh, i hope this shows gamefreak that they did a lot of things right with these games, despite their flaws :D

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 05/11/2024

my 3ds xl currently has a broken shoulder, and now the circle pad has collapsed. im still putting it to work for my 3 3ds setup but might need a replacement one LMAO

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

i used pokeradar in bdsp once when it was released to get the shiny starly line and havent used it since. tried the 17 method today and got shiny kricketot, then went to 40 (different chain i ran out of repels lol) and got 5 more including back to back! so now i have enough for genders - crazy odds

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 31/10/2024

i think its very telling that nintendo knows which of its older franchises are really popular cause they have nintendogs AND tomodachi life music in the nintendo music app, like they know what people are begging for

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

really enjoying just having a social media where i can yap about my silly pokemon stuff

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 29/10/2024

lifes been bumpy so i've been bad at consistently posting about my shinies but i got heatran as my first shiny in this leg of the living dex today :D

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Max Maxxus ✨ @maxxus2.bsky.social · 28/10/2024

tbh the only long hunts (knock on wood) that i have for sinnoh are arceus and shaymin in bdsp and manaphy in platinum, which i havent figured out the logistics yet i need someone i watch to make a tutorial for dummies. i do have like 6 wormhole legendary hunts to do too but they'll be fineee

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