Funny Sunburnt Lizard + The Toil

congrats on the funny lizard! I've always been tempted to try for a shiny Helioptile sometime because the shiny is just so goofy
and as much as it is kind of a basic ball, I feel the ultra ball still fits really well for Heliolisk. good luck on the other team members!!!

A brief (<-- lie) update.

I created this thread several weeks ago, documenting the shiny Helioptile I bred for using the Shiny Charm and the Masuda method. A quick hunt, even with those low odds! Yes, indeed, it was one of a string of fairly quick hunts, both the Noibat before it and the next few mons after were found in short order, all for the sake of building a team to support Aura the Noivern on her quest to obtain every ribbon, though that's a story I'll actually post about in another thread, separate from The Toil. You see, the team I plan on bringing in to the Battle Tower and the online competition is a Doubles Rain team. Dry Skin Heliolisk, Water Absorb Vaporeon, Drizzle Politoed, Telepathy Noivern. However, I didn't bring my Vaporeon and Heliolisk from Gen 7 along with Aura, I wanted them to stay behind to help any other, future Ribbon Masters in their quest through Alola's Battle Tree. So what did I decide to do? Breed a new team of competitive mons in Gen 8! And, to my credit, that went well!




This first Poliwag, named Jelly Bean, took 118 eggs! About four times more than Helioptile did, but by no means is that bad at all! In fact, with how quickly these shinies have been coming, some might even say that's suspiciously good—




Another Poliwag, only 12 eggs later?! That's just getting started with the cleanup! Talk about extreme luck. Sure, it would have been nice to save that luck for when I needed it, like for the last member of my team instead of a Poliwag which I decided to name King, but I guess I'll just have to take a while to get my Vap—


53 eggs. That's all it took, and not only did I get a shiny Eevee from it, but she's got square sparkles too! Sure, they aren't insanely rare, but it's a 1/16 chance from breeding on top of the 1/512 to get a shiny, so relatively speaking it's quite uncommon! All the mons I needed to make my team and in so few eggs, with an extra shiny to boot! To fit the shiny Vaporeon she was soon to be, I named her Iridescence.

And yet... something seemed to be missing. Competitive Doubles in Pokemon has been a "Bring 6, Pick 4" format for quite a while. I wanted another option. Another shiny. Perhaps another Eeveelution. Sylveon! I love shiny Sylveon. Plus, with Pixilate Hyper Voice, it'd do quite while as a damage dealer even if it didn't perfectly synergize with the Rain Team. Besides, how bad could it be? Given how quick the rest of my hunts have been, it can't really be That bad, right? Maybe I'll get unlucky, go past 500, maybe even reach 1000 eggs, but it's not like my numbers are gonna hit