Have you ever caught a shiny Pokemon, without cheats/hacks?
>playing ruby version around 2004
>encounter a shiny aron
>no idea why the color is different
>decide to catch it and level it up
>eventually feel like replaying the game
>delete the save file
>years later, realize what i had done
>never encounter another shiny again
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no
I caught a shiny wurmple once in Moemon Emerald and I just felt absolutely dead inside.
I also found a shiny aron in ruby as my first shiny. But I reset my game pretty regularly to replay it so I didn't care that much. Also found a shiny taillow and a shiny mudkip once.
>and I just felt absolutely dead inside.
Why
used to hunt them before the series moved to switch and bottomed out
still do from time to time but HOME kind of nuked my enthusiasm for the hobby
Yes it was a Deerling.
I've never never seen one that wasn't an e-gift
I've never ENCOUNTERED a single shiny, ever.
>gloom in ruby
>patrat in black
>chatot in x
accidentally killed a shiny donphan in the gold/silver era when I was young. Never saw another.
Only shiny in my entire life is a fricking alolan meowth garfield motherfricker.
>Have you ever caught a shiny Pokemon, without cheats/hacks?
A bunch. I shiny hunting is what I do after I beat the main story.
Hunting is cheating
How come?
you didn't earn it
Oh yes I fricking did. Are you now aware how much of a pain in the ass it is to identify a shiny Phanpy in the overworld when it's shiny colors are barely different from normal? It took me three days to find one at full odds. Don't you dare say I didn't earn it.
>new game
>full odds
You HUNTED it, not found it randomly. You basically cheated. It's not an authentic experience.
The game is aimed for kids, do you think they really care for grinding a shiny? No, because that's not how the game is meant to be played.
>It's cheating because you put effort into getting it
I've only shiny hunted once, but I wouldn't say the 25+ days of time investment was cheating or anything
How?
true
i care not
Hunting is not cheating as long as it's pre generation when they dropped the rarity rate and coded in game ways to improve odds
I wouldn't mind this being a thing now if they made it end game or if Pokemon was like a real RPG, a rare drop, but not how they do it these days.
Only Gen 3 lacked a way to increase the odds.
It wasn't introduced until Gen 2 and the way breeding worked inherently increased the odds when using a Shiny to breed, then Gen 4 introduced the Masuda method.
>it only counts if you catch it randomly without thinking
uhh
I was a moronic kid and got convinced that in order to find Celebi in FRLF you had to get all the Unowns, during that grind I found a shiny Unown A. I felt a weird mix of excitement and disappointment, after that a friend of mine gave me a shiny Lombre he found and that was my second shiny.
Then I found out that hacking shinies into the game was extremely easy with the right tools, so I started finding them worthless, specially since most shinies are kinda ugly anyway.
>got convinced that in order to find Celebi in FRLF you had to get all the Unowns
LMAO. You got trolled hard.
Years ago with SM, ran into my first random shiny and I had played every Pokémon game up to that point. It was an Azurill, probably would've popped for that moment but I was in a laundromat with a bunch of people and waiting for my clothes to dry when it happened.
Just threw a quick ball at it, and that was that. Shame I don't play Pokémon anymore, but those new games look like complete garbage.
>CIA data collecting thread
Whatever I'll bite it
On an actual console?
Zubat as a kid in crystal and the desert sand dragon in ruby
If emulators without cheats count
A marill in crystal during my work lunch break...but I had no pokeballs at the moment so I deleted the entire game and haven't played a pokemen since then
wtf are the cia gonna do with this info?
i regularly shiny hunt but i have been blindsided by a few, though only ones i encountered in the main story were a weepinbell in X and an alolan meowth in moon.
hack into your pokemon games so you never encounter a shiny again
>>CIA data collecting thread
What are you even supposed to talk about on Ganker then?
Several. Was never actually hunting for one when it happened. Let's see what I can remember...
silver
>magikarp was my first (scripted gyarados doesn't count), in the dragon's den
the rest in no particular order
>krabby
>raticate
>fearow
ruby
>duskull
>black
skarmory
Oops, I meant skarmory was in Sun. I feel like I'm missing a couple more somewhere, too. It's just been so long.
last time i was playing violet i caught a shiny growlithe while trying to ev train my pokemon by abusing mass outbreaks. ironically the grolithe was not part of the outbreak
I've found 3 shiny Roselia (not kidding) and 1 shiny magnemite
Yeah, a few, the first was Ariados in Crystal. He and Sandshrew are in every team I can use them on since. Albeit, I haven't played a game since sun/moon.
My very first shiny was a Dewgong I encountered in Leaf Green, at that one cave on the way to Lorelei in the Sevii Islands. I haven't touched a Pokémon game in years, yet I remember that action clearer than I remember my own graduation.
>that shiny you encountered twice
>in the same area
frick you mt. silver
>Have you ever caught a shiny Pokemon, without cheats/hacks?
For me it was a Ledia (FR), Tentacool and Aron (Ruby). For some reason they were all female.
Played a multitude of Pokememe games and I have not. Never seen one outside of the gimmies.
Never really think about it.
Yes, they are not that uncommon. The last one I caught was a shiny glimmet. I farmed for it, because Glimmora is my favorite pokemon from the new gen that I don’t also want to frick.
Also I have not played the SV DLC, did it add some meaningful postgame (raids suck) or is it just more story stuff.
Mostly more story stuff, though it did add a gacha machine for apriballs so it's nice if you have ball autism, and it also brought back a lot of pokémon, including every previous starters which you can eventually encounter in the wild, so if you ever wanted a shiny starter, it's your best bet. Also the second half's "region" is heavily Unova-inspired in looks and music, so if you're nostalgic for Gen 5, it's pretty good. It also mostly revolves around double battles if you're into that, and you eventually unlock the ability to rematch every gym leader, every teacher and every E4 members with stronger teams than they used to have. If you're willing to ask /vp/ to grind multiplayer challenges, you can also spawn in every box art legendaries and a few others unto the main map in (mostly) thematic spots, I actually found goofing around grinding mission points with anons then roaming around hunting legendaries to be the best part of the DLC.
Yes several
I snagged a shiny Koffing in crystal. It's a shame that Weezing is shit.
>taking a dump and playing some omega ruby
>farming route 110
>holy shit shiny electrike
>after a sweaty minute or two, catch him
what an ugly son of a b***h he is, but at least he's mine
caught a shiny gyarados and pogged out of my mind. wonder what the odds are on that one.
>mfw noone believes my actual 1/8196 shiny Magikarp into Gyarados is real
Thanks Lake of homosexuals.
Shiny zubat.
If we're not talking about newer Pokémon games, then I think it only ever happened while replaying Emerald on emu, but to be fair I used speed hacks.
Forgot to mention it was a Zubat
The first shiny I ever encountered was a Nidoran in Firered.
In the fricking Safari zone.
Guess how that ended.
I didn't see another shiny until I started breeding for them in Sun/Moon.
A few yes, but they were usually shittermons
from what I remember:
>bronzor
>budew
>solrock
>poochyena
The only one I cared about was a shiny ralts, but that was in LA
lucky bastard
My first shiny was a Marill on a Silver rom.
I had gotten tired of trying to find one with the 1% encounter rate, so I entered a cheat to force it.
The very next encounter was the shiny which I skipped over because I didn't think it was right since I was cheating.
The next pokemon was a usual common spawn for the location.
Turned out I forgot to enter the master code so that Marill was 100% legit.
Yeah. I have encountered at least one non-scripted shiny in every game I've played without looking for it since gen 2
yellow magikarp south of pallet town (silver)
blue beedrill in the bug catching contest (crystal)
blue tyrogue in a random egg (crystal)
green wingull right before reaching evergrande city (emerald)
yellow rhydon inside stark mountain (platinum)
green tentacool in route 32 (soul silver)
yellow geodude in route 45 (soul silver)
yellow sandile in unova route 4 (black)
navi blue golduck in a dark grass patch in unova route 11 (black2)
blue mienfoo in kalos route 8 (Y)
blue zangoose (female) in a seviper horde in kalos route 8 (Y)
brown starly in a horde in kalos route 11 (Y)
green pelipper in route 124 (alpha sapphire)
green spinda in a horde in route 113 (alpha sapphire)
green zubat in a horde inside meteor falls (alpha sapphire)
gray alolan rattata inside verdant cavern (moon)
green primeape in poni wilds (ultra moon)
I'm sure there are more but these are the ones I can recall on top of my head
>Have you ever caught a shiny Pokemon, without cheats/hacks?
Yes, I once caught a shiny Mankey in Pokemon Red. Zoomers will never know this feel and that makes me happy 🙂
moron
Awww lil zoom zoom got mad?
shiny bellsprout at route 32 in crystal
shiny wurmple at petalburg woods in emerald
My first shiny was a Spheal in emerald, I remember that it was one of the first encounters in shoal cave, then it was a female Tranquill in white, I played firered with moemon and got a shiny Ratata, then I got a shiny Audino in X, and finally I got a shiny Kengeon in pokemon clover ended up becoming my deluxe revenge killer and clutch pokemon for do or die moments.
>spend days in Emerald catching boxes of Pikachu hoping to get one holding a light orb
>do this on the side while watching TV since Pikachu has a horrid encounter rate and the chance of one holding an orb is horribly low
>get bored and give up after several boxes
>buy Perl years later and go through my GBA boxes looking for Pokemon to transfer over
>randomly notice that one of the many Pikachu I caught back then is shiny
>didn't notice back in the day because shiny Pikachu looks almost identical to a normal one and I probably missed the sparkle since I was doing something else when I caught it
A bit underwhelming.
would've been a lot easier to catch them if you'd put one at the head of your party. Starting with emerald, having a Pokemon with Static as the lead makes you more likely to encounter electric types.
>shiny Pikachu looks almost identical to a normal one
same with Snorlax.
>one nothing wrong with me
>two nothing wrong with me
>three nothing wrong with me
>four nothing wrong with me
>ONE SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE
>TWO SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE
>THREE SOMETHING'S GOT TO GIVE
bruh
Yeah multiple times and then I quit playing this game
Yeah, I've gotten plenty of legit shinies over the years, I even got a NidoranM in the safari zone in Heart Gold a few weeks ago.
Then after that I found out about the Cute Charm glitch/exploit and I started playthroughs of Platinum and Soul Silver that I've been using to catch every possible shiny Pokemon I can with them.
>Sun and Moon going to release soon
>decide to play Black/White 2
>Go into cave near the town with the water gym leader
>encounter shiny Lunatone
>catch it
I swear it was a sign to get Pokemon Moon, so I got Moon and transferred that Lunatone up to Moon.
I have the worst shiny luck of any normal person who has played Pokemon
It's not that I don't encounter shinies, it's that all of my shiny encounters are fricking cursed. The most recent one was encountering a shiny ghost in the Pokemon Tower in Red++ before I had the Silph Scope. Red++ has an icon that indicates if the Pokemon is shiny or not. But because Red++ has a higher shiny encounter rate, this isn't nearly the worst one.
yes I got a few without cheating but have lost them all because I've misplaced my Heart Gold Cartridge
>Pokémon Fire red
>Start off with Squirtle and want a water move to beat brock in two turns so grind in viridian forest
>Suddenly yellow caterpie
>Catch, evolve into butterfree
>Box it and transfer to Heart Gold
Pokemon Emerald
>in sofe fricking cave
>suddenly green zubat
>catch, nickname "GREEN"
>evolve into Crobat, change nickname to "Pinky"
Pokémon Platinum
>just going randomly on a route
>Sudden Shink Rhydon
>Catch and evolve into rhyperior even the shiny looks ass but whatever
>Transfer to Heart Gold
Heart Gold
>decide to wonder trade some Chickorita i bred
>get a shiny level 100 Glyscore
and now they're all lost because out of all the Nintendo DS games in my collection its Heart Gold I can't find
>wonder trade
>DS game
Why the frick are people making up stories about such meaningless shit? You and the guy further up the thread who totally found a shiny in the only gen where shinies didn't exist yet.
>You and the guy further up the thread who totally found a shiny in the only gen where shinies didn't exist yet.
*technically* you could, but you wouldn't know for 100% certain without having the stats needed memorized and then transferring it to GSC or Stadium 2. I know I guy who actually shiny hunted all of the Gen 1 legends in Red, but he ended up giving up after getting Moltres, Zapdos and Mewtwo but before Articuno.
Only static mons could be shiny not wild ones
No, anything from RBY can be shiny, it just has to have the proper IVs.
wild grass/cave encounters can't generate shiny-compatible DV spreads in gen 1. it's straight up not possible in the game's math
Aren't all individual DVs random? Dunno how they are assigned but that doesn't sound right.
they are, but it had to do with the way the game generated encounters
No, frick off
please read the last sentence in your fricking image
>Fishing encounters, gift Pokemon (Including from Pokemon Stadium), stationary Pokemon (such as Snorlax and Mewtwo), and in-game trades can have any set of IVs, so they always have the same 1/8192 chance of having a Shiny IV combination.
So you can shiny hunt Legendary Pokemon in Gen 1, thank you for confirming that.
>anything from RBY can be shiny, it just has to have the proper IVs.
Nope they can't generate the right DVs
can you moronic Black folk go back and read that this was about legendaries
Yeah but the tone of his post makes it clear it's some sort of bait, that he probably hoped he'd get people to angrily bite with his smug tone
Ignoring the ones from romhacks that increase the rate, I've found a ton and don't even remember them all. I've also found Pokérus like five times now too.
>Pokérus
I still don't know what the hell that does, but I remember the first time I found a Pokemon with it and I thought they introduced some kind of new health mechanic and I spent a few minutes looking around marts and centers for medicine before looking it up.
Pokémon that are and were infected by it gain double EVs, that's it.
The nurse tells you what it does button masher
Reading is gay anon.
you are black.
But at least I'm not gay.
Not in Gen II, but otherwise they do somewhat tell you.
so kawaii
Legit the rarest shiny that isn't shiny locked.
>300+ water tiles in one spot in one route where it can spawn, of which only 6 of those tiles that's RANDOMLY selected pre trainer ID count to spawn from, with like a 10% chance to encounter in battle
>With the usual 1/8192 chance to be shiny in Gen 3.
If I saw this and it died somehow I'd kill myself.
Shiny Vespiquen/Salazzle are up there, too. Both have to evolve from a female with a 1/8 gender ratio.
>300 tiles
>6 of which contain feebas
>50% chance of finding a feebas on a feebas tile
>1/8192 chance of feebas being shiny
If I did my math right, that's a 0.0001% chance of finding a shiny feebas on any given tile.
Meh, you can remove the 6/300 rate since it's a non issue once you find it.
No? Considering it is a 50% of being hooked with any rod on those six tiles, it's an easy mon to shiny hunt.
Now these are rare, since it's a 1/8 on top of the shiny chance.
Yeah, it's super easy nowadays. I have like, 100+ shinies caught between Legends and Scarlet. All it took was for them to actually physically show up on the overworld.
My first non-scripted shiny was a Tangela in the bushes at the Mt. Silver entrance in Crystal. Caught dozens since.
Does anyone know when the game decides whether a wild Pokemon is shiny or not? Is it right when the encounter begins, or when a previous encounter ends, or what?
When the pokemon is generated. Look up the math, it has something to do with your trainer number lining up with the randomly generated ID of the pokemon.
Right at the start of the encounter, the game rolls an algorithm and if you land on the lucky spot between the thousands of spots, you get a shiny.
yeah, a red gyarados
Recently caught a shiny Goomy trying to rush through X/Y prior to the server shutdown.
Yes. A Wurmple in Emerald. Levelled it up to know what branch it would evolve, became a Silkloon, boxed because who uses bug types lmao.
Yeah, got a shiny Charmander as my starter in FireRed, never finished that play through though
I have heard complains about the Hoenn tutorial Zigzagoon being shiny but not of other gens. Is it just not shiny locked in G3 or something?
>Is it just not shiny locked in G3 or something?
The Ralts Wally catches can be shiny (though naturally that's not reflected in later battles versus him), what do you think?
Oh right, the ralts could be. Well I mean I never heard of the G2/4/5 tutorials generating shinies.
shiny locking isn't a thing until gen 4 and even then it's not really until later gens where it's common
Shiny Rhyhorn in GSC
Shiny Makuhito in RSE with pokerus
Both are dead and gone
They made shiny Pokémon way too inaccessible, the odds are complete shit. I can't even be bothered to do it with the game sped up times 16. And it's just a color change with a lot of them not even looking that good for the effort put in. They most likely won't even have good enough stats for you to compete with either. Shit mechanic tbh.
Found my first ever shiny a couple of months ago. It was a Rattata.
> lamenting over having one of the top percentage of Rattata
>Few months ago
>Talk about how despite playing the games for who knows how many hours I've never seen a pre-gen 6 shiny
>Play Emerald like a week later
>Shiny zubat
It just werks
I have a few post-gen 6 but it's whatever, the odds are doubled or more
not to burst your bubble but emerald is glitched with shinies and I am serious you can look it up.
I don't really see anything besides a reddit post which was then edited to be disregarded
Not as much as I would have liked actually, there's a lot that can kill a shedinja
How much did you cheese with that Shedinja?
Based.
>It's female too
Perfect Shiny. I love when the colors match.
Kinda wanna try playing SV again now that the dlc is out
give me some kind of challenge for it
Disable XP.
Little Cup mons only
yea it's not hard just time consuming.
I got a shiny Sandslash in Fire Red, a shiny Golbat in ultra sun and I hatched a shiny squirtle at some point.
First one ever was a hatched Azuril in I think Fire Red, second was a Nidoran female in Go and most recent was a Mareep in Scarlet.
I have once in Pokemon Ruby and in Pixelmon a myriad of times. What pisses me off about this image was I was denied getting this exact pokemon in Pixelmon because I was out range to reach it before it despawn, and I'll never get over that.
I don't know how the 3D games handle it, but I sure as frick hope when Pokemon spawn they don't respawn seconds after spawning just because you're not right next to them despite spawning out 100 yards away.
*Despawn
found a shiny bellsprout today in fire red
I got a shiny spheal in pokemon ruby. It's possibly the worst shiny in the game, almost indistinguishable. And I never leveled it up because I thought evolving it would make me lose shiny, well that and the fact I loved how cute the lil spheal is.
he looks ok in newer games but in game on a pokemon ruby cart this is what it looks like.
>It's possibly the worst shiny in the game
For me it's Nidoqueen. Nidoran female and Nidorina are palette swaps of the males which is cool but Nidoqueen is some ugly green and peach combo.
All uranium green shinies are ass and there are a lot. Dunno how prevalent they are nowadays.
But the worst shiny ever is Garchomp. Imagine shiny hunting a Gible for hours for a 2 hexadecimal delta color pallete.
I think there's less lime shinies these days, but it also came at the monkeys paw of a lot of the hand crafted shinies being shit anyway
Gen 9's shinies are absolutely atrocious, tandemaus and maushold have basically the worst shinies in the series because not only are they basically not any different, but you would never even notice they're shiny in the overworld because they're fricking pea sized, smaller than the grass, and there are no overworld shiny indicators
Yeah, but it was on an emulated version
Yes I caught a shiny female Nidoran in Leaf Green, a shiny Golduck, and a shiny Flittle in Violet.
I find a shiny pokemon almost every time I play the games. Last time I played Ruby I found a shiny hariyama in victory road. Kind of a tense one since they can end the battle with whirlwind but I still caught it, not that it really matters since shinies are worthless anyway.
If the odds weren't 1/8192 it's not a real shiny.
I never hunted for them but found like 4 across all my years playing the gen 3 and gen 4 games
I genuinely can't remember. I know that my sister caught a lot of shiny pokemon though. I don't know if she hunted for them or if she was just hella lucky, but back when we were kids I remember she had like 4 or 5 shinies and I hadn't even seen any other than the red gyarados
Stop triggering the desire sensor.
Red gyara made me know they existed but never found one as a kid. Played through pearl a few years ago and got a shiny buizel and pelipper, still my only ones.
>go to pokecenter as a kid
>nurse mentions tiny organisms
>no idea what tge frick it means, never heard of pokerus and ignore it
>get it again a decade later in that same pearl run with the shinies
I caught a shiny geodude once. Considering those frickers can self destruct, I think I did pretty well.
Got a shiny voltorb on firered years ago when I was in elementary school. left my gameboy bag with the console and all my games in mom's car for some reason. ended up getting broken into and everything was stolen. CDs, gameboy, GPS. At the time my mom didnt tell me what happened and just said she couldn't find it. Bought a new gba and games for me off of ebay. I was really sad that I lost all my progress on all the gba pokemon games.
what romhack is this
Clover.
Any one else regret trading up their shinies up through the generations? It feels less special now
A golbat and a jigglypuff
I skipped silver and gold as a kid so I never knew what shinies were until I came across a shiny Aron. Obviously had to keep it and beat the elite 4 with it. For whatever reason I ran water pulse on it, which ended up being useful for confuses on some of the tougher fights.
Yes.
jej
Shinies from Legends and Scarlet/Violet feel like cheating because of just how many encounters you can get
I had three shinies in the span of 30 minutes when I played Arceus and it was just so unnatural since I've only seen one actual one in like 20 years of playing these games
Was it different in Scat and Spit?
Sword and shield? Not really since most of the campaign doesn't have overworld encounters
PLA also has other things that raises shiny rates significantly, like research amount and swarms
Legends Arceus has a guaranteed shiny Ponyta in the first area if I'm not mistaken. But yes, I think that one game at least has more common shinies, I think my ingame team at least had 2 shinies.
Yeah. I played every generation, but I never got a natural shiny until Sun/Moon. It was a Ledyba right at the beginning of the game. I took my shitty ass Ledian all the way through the story.
In every game after USUM (which I skipped), you could spot shinies from the overworld, so I stumbled across a handful of them per game.
>actually used the stat mistake that is ledian
How was it king?
Not great, as far as I remember. By the end, I could pretty much only use it to put up Light Screen and Reflect on occasion.
>In every game after USUM (which I skipped), you could spot shinies from the overworld
Actually, for some godforsaken reason, even though pokémon spawn on the overworld in SwSh, they will not appear as shiny until you actually enter battle with them. Don't ask me why, the only reason I can think of is that GameFreak are incompetent morons.
that's bullshit, I got a shiny Gastly in Sword that I spotted on the overworld.
I ran away from a shiny carvanha by muscle memory and regret it to this day
I recently finished a 4096-odds hunt in Let's Go Eevee I started back in September, where I'd catch shinies of the legendary birds, plus Mewtwo. All in all I didn't do too bad,
>Zapdos - 281 Encounters
>Articuno - 25,151 Encounters
>Moltres - 1,610 Encounters
>Mewtwo - 369 Encounters
It was actually pretty fun, and they're nice trophies to have. I'm starting on the Brilliant Diamond legendaries next.
I had thousands, yes.
I didn't have 7.5 years of play time for no reason.
im surprised at how many people havent caught a shiny. then again im an autist that would put a rubberband on his controller to walk around afk with an egg in my bag
not counting eggs a shiny krabby under a random rock and a doduo in Gold. Can't for the life of me remember any others
A golden cricketune in diamond. Also multiple boxes full of shinies in Scarlet but they made it so easy that it has no merit anymore
They really should have upped it to 1/40000 or so to consider the overworld.
Yeah plenty. My first non-red-gyarados was a shiny Zubat in origin cave in Ruby.
They're pretty much all stuck in Alpha Sapphire now, the last good pokemon game. I have 2 boxes worth of shinies, most legit. A handful I sniped from GTS from stupid kids trying to transfer to other games solo. I sacrificed a few to complete the dex with the GTS for AS.
I think I won't transfer anything up from ORAS ever. I didn't like legends arse or sword and I didn't buy scarlet or violet. I think this is where my journey stops, I've moved on.
i've got like 1 shiny per game as you're pretty much guaranteed assuming you do postgame grind.
the downside is that its always in a grinding area, so its shit you'd never want ever like a level 56 golbat.
>guaranteed
yeah no
>t. ~100% LG/SS/W(2) with nothing to show but a shiny Noctowl.
I've played every gen except for 7 and 8 and i have never found a single one. Shinies are for gays anyway...
I've found 3 shinies without actively looking for them
>Electabuzz in Pearl
>Pidgey in Crystal
>Tynamo in Black
I was looking for a Tynamo to add to my team anyway, so I actually brought that guy along for the adventure
I've also gotten two shiny Froakies with Masuda (the first one had Torrent) and about a dozen shinies with egg RNG manipulation in gen 7
I don't count my shinies from Legends Arceus
i caught a red garados before. that's one of the rarest one
>trying to get a female mudkip in either sapphire or emerald
>get a shiny male after about 10 or 15 minutes of reloading
my hands were fricking shaking till i could save
i ran into a shiny tentacool once but didnt have enough poke balls
after that i always made sure i carried a stupid surplus of the damn things
>after that i always made sure i carried a stupid surplus of the damn things
Lol, yep. My "don't ever forget balls again" moment was a Koffing in the Burned Tower.
Wasn't even high enough level to learn Self Destruct yet in Gen 2 and it didn't fricking matter.
to get a female mudkip in either sapphire or emerald
>>get a shiny male after about 10 or 15 minutes of reloading
the same exact thing happened to me on launch day with Emerald, except I ended up getting a shiny Treecko. Shit was nuts. Unfortunately I lost it (and a shiny Golem) after I traded them both to XD to see them in 3D and then the shitty third party Gamecube memory card corrupted.
>XD
have a nice day
hey you're stealing my memories
Shiny Wingull shortly after I started playing Emerald for the first time, think that was the only random shiny I ever saw.
I found 3 natural shinies in violet, and shiny chained 2 more. Otherwise never found a shiny in any other Pokémon game that wasn't guaranteed.
>violet shiny
doesn't count
Wooper, Crystal
Ditto with pokerus, also Crystal
Oddish with pokerus in Ruby
Cacnea, Emerald
Unown and Zubat, Leaf Green
Geodude, plus many radar shinys, Pearl
Beldum, Platinum
Ducklett and Audino, White
Audino with Pokerus in White 2
Masuda'd Froakie, and many chain fishing shinys, X
Alolan Grimer and Fomantis, Sun
Many Ultra Space shiney pokemon, Ultra Sun
Sizzlipede, Shield
Too many to care, PLA
..., Scarlet
I probably did this to myself, but I no longer find them interesting.
>shiny pokerus rare
gratz if true kys if lying
>shiny pokerus
No no, I separated them.
I haven't gotten a combo before.
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>full odds SWSH feebas
that's some dedication
for context you only have a 1% of even encountering it, and then there's base shiny odds on top of it. I can see why it took years
>dedication
There is no reason not to do that in RSE. Or did the 3DS WiFi death cut the transfer chain?
I think the main reason he did it was because there's a specific shiny effect that you can only get from wild encountering it in SWSH, from any other game/method it would've just gave him the regular one
Technically you can get square shinies in previous gens, you just won't know they're square until you get them to SS
Assuming you're using an rng manip you can force it to be one or the other it's just one is way more common than the other
Yup, many. When I was a kid I had no idea they existed, I remember finding a couple and just killing them as usual thinking it was a bug.
I've gotten it on 4 different occasions through out the years.
I was confused when nurse joy was talking more then usual when I got it first time.
That's Pokérus, not shinies.
Talking about Pokerus, who actually got Pokerus? That shit is 5x rarer and isn't even shown unless you autistically check profiles.
got it once in crystal back in the day
No, I didn't even realize that shinies existed until after I stopped playing the series at Fire Red.
Yeah a few.
buziel was the first I caught in pokemon X. found it in the friend code safari. There was a subreddit, that people would anyone that posted to get friend codes. I had a wartortle so it was really easy for me to add people.
I've ran into a few playing romhacks, some of those change the shiny odds so that doesn't count.
I shiny hunted Eevee in alpha sapphire. using the chain grass encounter method. aipom and h-zoroark in legends. Oinkologne in SV
>shiny variant is what the main one should've looked like
the homie is made of metal
At least 7 now, though one was on an emulator which I brought into a real game, so I don't really count it even if it's 100% legal according to Game Freak's legitimacy checkers.
A shinny zubat at the start of emerald. It looked weird and sick
but i killed it because weird things irk me
I once got a shiny Piplup, didn't cheat, wasn't farming, and only played the game 3 times totally through restarting.
Maybe I phrased this wrong, I played and restarted on 3 occasions.
Twice
One in bw2 and again in infinite fusion
encountered a shiny in safari zone and it escaped
very melancholy moment in my childhood
None pre gen 6 odds
>Scatterbug in X
>Yungoos in Moon
I also do breeding and fishing autism
Dozens
My pride was my shiny treecko, I hatched like 5000 eggs to get him
Pretty much every single person who played 2nd gen has.
You and I both know lake of rage and the PLA ponyta don't count
Yeah, right off the bat in Gen 2. It was a Geodude in the cave before Violet city, didn't even know shiny pokemon were a thing. Thought it was a glitch, so I caught it. I only realized what it was after lake of rage.
My first shiny was a Geodude and the second shiny I encountered was between the point when you get your Pokemon and the pokeballs in emerald, so I couldn't even catch that fricking tailow.
I did a lot of shiny breeding in BW2 and X
got a milotic, aegislash and few others but I stopped playing pogeyman after oras
how the frick did you get a shiny milotic?
by breeding feebas for days
First shiny I actually caught was an Aron in white or 2, can't remember. First encountered was Maril in sapphire. There was probably one before that but I missed it as a kid playing the older games. I almost hit 999 hours in red as a kid training pokemon to 100 so I no doubt would have encountered at least one.
>Friend playing gold and silver back in the day
>Electrode shows up
>It's blue
>He asks me if mine were like that
>No, must be a glitch
>Saved momentarily before that
>He resets
>Had no idea that it was shiny, nor what shinys were
Still feel bad that we reset.
i was EV training while watching something with the family and accidentally ran from a shiny pidove. Saw it slowly fade away and immediately confirmed it in the dex
I caught a random shiny in SoulSilver, chained a few of them in Pokemon X, and randomly ran into like 4 or 5 of them in Arceus (though that game hands them out like hotcakes).
I caught a shiny spinda in one of the ashy routes in sapphire, I was like wtf is that what was that weird animation and I caught it
Not since I started buying a million repels.