Pokemon player spends more than five years finishing a bizarre Shiny hunt

Shiny hunting is a long-standing pastime for dedicated Pokemon fans, but one hunt stands apart: tracking down Shiny versions of clothing rather than Pokemon themselves. Those special outfits have puzzled Pokemon Battle Revolution players for nearly 20 years, and a prolific hunter known as Noa_Kyogre appears to be the first to collect the entire set — then immediately vowed never to do it again.

Pokemon Battle Revolution, a 2006 Wii spin-off, lets players earn costumes by defeating endgame trainers who wear them. Very rarely — about 1 in 8,192 attempts — a trainer will be wearing a Shiny outfit that can be taken, and a single try can take 10 to 15 minutes, an anecdote notes.

Multiply those minutes by thousands of attempts and the scale of the task becomes clear. Noa_Kyogre didn’t stop at one region’s outfits: they collected 12 in total, the full set from both the Japanese and worldwide versions of the game.

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