Hey guys i'm back for another post. This time i'm here to talk about another amazing egg hatch. This one might just be my favorite ever and I've hatched thousands of eggs over the years.
I've been hatching eggs for a longgggg time. I hatch for Shinies that are as close to flawless as possible. I hatched a flawless Adamant Scizor (31/31/31/X/31/31) on my X game in late 2014. I also hatched a 'practically' flawless Aegislash (31/31/31/31/18/0) in the same X game, as if I had to pick one of the IVs to not be passed down, it would have been Special Defense since he's a mixed CRUMBLER attacker with a Quiet nature that requires a 0 in speed. I provided screenshots of both of these on page 10, post #241 for anyone interested in checking it out.
I have also hatched a few "almost flawless" 5IV Shiny Pokemon including Prankster Sableye, Magikarp, Salamence, Regenerator Slowbro and Protean Greninja. While they do have 5 perfect IVs, one of them isn't in the ideal spot (for example the Magikarp with an IV spread of 31/31/31/31/X/31, instead of the preferred 31/31/31/X/31/31 since the perfect Special Attack is useless and a perfect Special Defense IV instead of the Special Attack would have made it perfect. Luckily, once I bring all of these over to Sun and Moon, including the 'practically flawless' Aegislash and give them a bottle cap, they will all be flawless 6IV Shiny Pokes :D
Now back to why i'm here today lol. Just a few weeks ago on 9/25, I hatched my second Shiny flawless Pokemon, a Jolly Metagross with a 31/31/31/X/31/31 IV spread. This flawless, Shiny beauty was the first Shiny Beldum I hatched at egg 405. 405 eggs may not sound like too many, but Metagross and his evolutionary line have an egg cycle of 40 with 10,280 steps per egg, the highest of all Pokemon (tied with the other pseudo-legendaries and a few other pokes). Not only that but if you want a flawless Shiny Metagross, you absolutely need a flawless Ditto (ideally one that comes from another country for the Masuda Method), because Metagross is Genderless and can only breed with Ditto. A flawless Ditto is difficult enough to obtain, so finding a flawless one from another country is quite the accomplishment.
Of course Game Freak did give out a Shiny event Beldum with the release of ORAS and anyone can just transfer that over to Sun and Moon, give it a bottle cap and have the same flawless Shiny Metagross as I do without all of the work I put in (besides of course that theirs are in a Cherish Ball while mine is a Pokeball). To me, though, this Pokemon is as special as they come and was well worth all of the work I put in and I absolutely love it. Since I now have a flawless Shiny Metagross, Scizor and Aegislash, i'm currently soft-resetting for a Shiny Timid Heatran in my ORAS game so I can one day have a full Mono-Steel team of Shiny flawless Pokes (with a little help from those bottle caps hehe). Below are screenshots of my new Metagross, who's already Level 100 with all 5 max contest stats and all 24 obtainable Ribbons in Gen VI. Thanks for reading guys! :)