Pokemon shiny hunter spends almost a year looking for 1 of Scarlet and Violet's rarest finds, then wins the sparkly mouse lottery by getting 2 of them back to back

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: The Pokemon Company) One incredibly lucky Pokemon player has defied all odds to get their hands on not one, buttwoof the rarest shiny forms inScarlet and Violet– back to back – after almost a year of looking for the first one. Shiny Pokemon – sparkly, alternate color palette versions of the Pokemon we all know and love – are very rare. Admittedly,Scarlet and Violet are some of the easiest Pokemon games to find shinies in, as their one in 4096 odds can be boosted all the way to just over one in 512 if you stack all the buffs available. Even at that, though, there’s no overcoming the tedium of hunting for a shiny of the rarest form of Maushold. Maushold is one of the most unique Pokemon introduced in Scarlet and Violet, mainly because it doesn’t look like a single Pokemon at all. After evolving from Tandemaus (a pair of cute mice), Maushold becomesthe …