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r/ShinyPokemon

Show Your Shinies!. Show your Shiny Pokemon! discord.gg/ShinyPokemon Founded 2011 · 302.2K members

302.7K members. The best post we have captured here reached 11K upvotes, which works out to 36 per 1,000 members.

36peak upvotes per 1,000 members
302.7Kmembers
11Kbest post
779most comments
413posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

45% 36% 17%
Image 45% Gallery 36% Video 17% Text 1% Link 1%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Gen VII 81 Gen III 69 Gen IV 59 Gen IX 51 Gen VIII 50 Gen VI 28 Gen II 28 Mobile 12 Gen V 8 Let's Go 8

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

[Gen 4] My brother passed away and I finished his darkrai hunt

↑ 11K 💬 252 gallery 2025

[7] Phases 271-276 for the 1% Salamence; I AM FREE!!!

↑ 10.9K 💬 779 gallery 2025

[Gen 7] The Worst Shiny Moment in the History of Pokemon

↑ 8.8K 💬 246 image 2025

[Gen 9] Gonna retire and start a Dragon Ranch by the sea 😭

↑ 7K 💬 109 gallery 2025

[Gen 9] Accidentally filmed myself getting my shiny sprigatito just because my cat was acting so cute, ofcourse I named it after her

↑ 6.7K 💬 59 video 2025

[Gen 5] i can never move from this screen

↑ 6.1K 💬 64 image 2025

[Gen 9] Thanks i guess..?

↑ 5.9K 💬 144 video 2024

[Gen 4] Reaction To Failing Shiny Turtwig in 7 Resets

↑ 5.7K 💬 177 video 2024

[6] I don't know if I'm lucky or unlucky since I can only catch one

↑ 5.5K 💬 145 image 2025

[Gen 3] Complete Hoenn Gen 3 Shiny Living Dex with only Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald full-odds shinies ✨

↑ 5.2K 💬 273 video 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/ShinyPokemon, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/ShinyPokemon?
r/ShinyPokemon ("Show Your Shinies!") describes itself this way: Show your Shiny Pokemon! discord.gg/ShinyPokemon. It was founded in 2011 and has 302.2K members.
How many members does r/ShinyPokemon have?
r/ShinyPokemon has about 302.7K members. ViralHunt has tracked 413 of its posts; the biggest reached 11K upvotes, which is 36 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/ShinyPokemon?
"[Gen 4] My brother passed away and I finished his darkrai hunt" reached 11K upvotes and 252 comments in 2025, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/ShinyPokemon.
What subreddits are similar to r/ShinyPokemon?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/Global_News_Hub, r/FBI, r/Trumpvirus, r/alaska, r/Whistleblowers, r/Louisiana.
What kind of posts do best on r/ShinyPokemon?
Of the posts we hold, 45% are image posts and 36% are gallery posts.
When is the best time to post on r/ShinyPokemon?
Across 413 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Tuesday at 09:00 UTC (3.6K avg upvotes), Thursday at 15:00 UTC (2.9K avg upvotes), Friday at 16:00 UTC (2.7K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/ShinyPokemon?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/ShinyPokemon has 4.1K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 305 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/ShinyPokemon, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.