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Signup + An account already exists for this email address, please log in. Subscribe to our newsletterShiny hunting is a time-honored tradition among hardcore Pokemon fans, but there's one Shiny hunt in particular that stands out above the rest – not a quest to claim specially colored Pokemon, but rather to get specially colored clothes that look like Pokemon. Yes, Shiny clothes have been confounding Pokemon Battle Revolution fans for nigh on 20 years, and after all this time it seems one prolific Shiny hunter who goes by Noa_Kyogre is the first to have collected the entire set.
Pokemon Battle Revolution released as a spin-off to the main series on Wii in 2006. You can collect costumes in the game, including a special series of Pokemon outfits, which you can collect by defeating the respective endgame trainers that wear them. And, if you're very, very lucky – like 1/8192 lucky, a number that'll be very familiar to old-school Shiny hunters – they'll be wearing a special, Shiny version of the outfit that you can collect.
Looking for these Shiny outfits is far more annoying than regular Shiny hunts because it takes so long for each attempt – 10 to 15 minutes, according to one anecdote. Multiply that times thousands upon thousands of attempts, and you start to see just what an endeavor collecting one of these things could be.
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But Noa_Kyogre didn't collect just one of the shiny outfits. They didn't even stop at collecting all six of them. Instead, they collected 12 outfits – the full set in both the Japanese and worldwide versions of the game.
Doing a bit of napkin math… If each attempt at getting a Shiny outfit takes about 10 minutes, and it averages 8196 attempts to find one – both generous assumptions – it would take around 1,300 hours to collect each outfit. Multiply that times 12, and you've got 15,600 hours. That's just shy of literally two calendar years of non-stop Shiny hunting.
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Dustin BaileySocial Links NavigationStaff WriterDustin Bailey joined the GamesRadar team as a Staff Writer in May 2022, and is currently based in Missouri. He's been covering games (with occasional dalliances in the worlds of anime and pro wrestling) since 2015, first as a freelancer, then as a news writer at PCGamesN for nearly five years. His love for games was sparked somewhere between Metal Gear Solid 2 and Knights of the Old Republic, and these days you can usually find him splitting his entertainment time between retro gaming, the latest big action-adventure title, or a long haul in American Truck Simulator.
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