Camouflage 
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Q-tip with earwax on it… 
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Wait I’m confused this is the shiny thread and that Stunky is not shiny. Am I missing something?
Still an epic catch though!
Ouchh!!! What a fault from my side… all my apologies.
I will try to do never more. 
One of the “shiny” Tapus from its long return visit to the T5 raids.
Is that a shiny or an out of place regional? (A local Panpour tries to pass as a visiting Pansage!)
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You’re fine! Epic Shadow Hundo! With the amount of epic catches you get you’re bound to mess up here and there. This afternoon’s shiny for me:
(You can see that it already has been berried, I had to go out and back in to get the initial sparkle flash 
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Alternatively, hop in and out of AR mode. You’ll get to see the sparkles again, but won’t have the risk of it despawning!
That said, I used to screen record the encounters by going out of the encounter screen and then return back to it, and I do not recall having anything important despawn ever. In other words, the risk is low, but avoidable if you’re doing it just for the sparkles.
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Oh, thank you for the tip! I was really worried about going back in—even though the risk factor is low, it’s still makes ya nervous!
Definitely will be doing that from now on.
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Very true, and @Jormdeworm’s tip is what made me able to get any sparkled screenshots of shinies. Of course, there is always a risk of fumbling the phone, inadvertently hitting a button, or triggering a random game crash to lose the shiny (but that stuff can happen any time, even if you don’t screw up,
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