a few times, though they were both in gens after the base odds were lowered >weepinbell in X >alolan meowth in moon i know what you're trying to do with the OP picture but now it makes me want to hunt a koffing in gen 2 because it looks really good in it i just have to replace the battery first though
pretty sure it's when you receive the egg, i know a couple gens have some sort of glitch where you can see what the mon inside the egg is like prematurely.
Maybe, but I was a dumb kid with no friends and we didn't have internet back then really
so if i did i wouldn't have even known it was a shiny or what shinies were
I didn't even know what they were until a few years ago. Stopped playing the games after Gen 2 and hadn't played another Pokemon game until Shining Pearl this year and I found two in the same hour. Barboach and Marill. Both were the first time I even saw the Pokemon because that game is obsessed with showering you in Geodudes and Bidoofs.
Once in a Bootleg Pokemon Leafgreen Cart, a Pidgey.
Once in Pokemon Sword, a Sandaconda.
And Four times in Pokemon Scarlet - Scatterbug, Flamigo, Doduo, Chancey.
Crazy how easy it is in Scarlet, due to all the mons you can see at once, on top of the rate being higher, I'm pretty sure
>anime portrays the bond between trainer and Pokemon as something where the Pokemon is usually the first/only of its kind the trainer catches and is trained over many battles to grow into a great battler >games: "I'm going to reroll thousands of times to get the shiny version and then several thousand more because it had sucky stats that aren't worth leveling"
Shiny Pokemon and the concept of "Natures" has completely ruined the fun of the series. Back in the day, you caught the cool looking dude and then you leveled it to get stronger.
Those features are in the game because they're meant to make each pokemon feel unique and special to you. Savescumming for stats is puppymill bevahiour.
Yep a couple, first wild encounter one one was a Growlithe in Pokémon Sun even though i been playing from Yellow (In other words i played from prior to shinies being a thing), First Egg one was a Froakie when i was breeding starters to trade in Y.
I mean, you don't HAVE to go for shinies and like 90% of them are visual downgrades anyway, and natures and IVs have been non issues ever since mints and caps were introduced anyway unless you are a "0 attack" Autist (or "0 Speed for Trick-Roomers"). Perosnally i like natures just because they give a bit more flavour text and Proud of its powergay won.
I didn't know how rare they were til I went online and saw people talking about them. I just assumed it was like 1 in every 50 pokemon because I've come across like 5 of them over the years
Yes several but the best one was Suicune in Heart Gold. I failed to catch it several times and kept resetting and then the shiny one appears and I easily catch it somehow.
Feels good man.
first time I played Gold as a kid I ran into a shiny ho-oh
despite the whole spiel with red gyrados I thought nothing of it, just assumed it was legendary flare
wound up saving over the file at some point, unless I traded it over to ruby/sapphire at some point, though I doubt that.
I also found a shiny tentacool much later in Black or White and actually knew what it was
>play poke gen 2/3 for years >get nothing >replaying pearl >get 2 shinies and pokerus >entire boxes full of 'rus'd mons
blessed game
pic rel, my first shiny which is some worthless moron i hate
The first shiny I ever encountered was a Nidoran in the Safari Zone of Firered. I didn't know what a shiny was or even have time to process it before it ran away.
I didn't see another shiny in 10(?) years until I starting actively breeding for them.
Ive gotten like 4 shiny zubat line pokemon, 2 spearow line and an asortment of other ones that I dont care about, never one that I like
Outside of like ROMhacks with increased odds of course
I found a shiny hoothoot on gold, I had no idea that shinies were a thing, I just thought it was a scripted encounter because there was a shiny one on the anime as well
yes I found and caught a shiny cubone as a kid and my older brother and his fat friend who had played for years never finding one both seethed in jealousy so they deleted it
Found a shiny Zubat while I was playing a friend's Pokemon Ruby game because he was stuck at the final Team Magma stretch and found a shiny Zubat on my way to Kyogre and the fricker refused to let me have it with a trade
This pic fills me with nostalgia. I loved Chuggaaconroy's videos when I was a kid. The pokemon videos were especially helpful. I didn't know how to interpret stats at all, so his reviews for each obtainable pokemon really helped me learn which ones were good or bad.
My Scarlet Pokedex says I've encountered 2 shiny mons. I don't have any in my boxes, though, so I figure I didn't even notice and KO'd them while grinding.
a lanturn when Chain Fishing in pokemon x, but the first and only shiny I got by just appearing was a shinny oddish in or that I lost when I deleted the save
>Gold
Rattata just before I got Pokeballs
Pidgey >Crystal
Onix >Ruby
Zigzagoon >Emerald
Magikarp
Sableye
Makuhita
Wailmer >Firered
Pidgey >Platinum
Starly >Heartgold
Pidgey
Raikou >White
Audino >White 2
Minccino >Y
too many from that friend Safari Zone clone and fishing >Omega Ruby
Ralts
Nosepass >Sun
too many from Adrenaline Orb spam, greatest achievement is a lvl 12 Salamence >Ultra Sun
too many from Adrenaline Orb spam and wormhole jumping, got a shiny Suicine, Kartana and Giratina >Sword
Sizzilepede
Ponyta
Heatmor
Sandaconda >Scarlet
Haven't seen anything yet, not sure if they actually appear on the overworld
>Haven't seen anything yet, not sure if they actually appear on the overworld
they do, they were piss easy to get before they reduced the amount of Pokémon in the overworld
I used to Spoof in Go when they said you would be able to transfer mons to future games. Time finally came that you could do that and i didn't even care about the current games to bother, so i've got about 30 shinies sitting in bank. Guess ralts is my favorite of them, gonna evolve it into a nice gallade at some point.
I believe only twice. A shiny Rhyhorn in FRLG safari zone when I was a kid, and a male Sandile when SM came out. I’ve never really hunted though and use repels all the time so it’s probably not THAT uncommon
He is just insanely autistic. I won't call him a predator because none of the girls ever said "I don't like this, stop talking to me." or utilized the block button even once.
Yes, once in pokemon silver. It was a tentacruel. I threw a masterball at it and then I couldn't find it. Maybe because my box was full? I don't remember.
Have a golbat in emerald and found a shiny meowth in Sun but due to shitty 3d, shitty shiny difference and night time i couldn't tell the difference and killed it.
in crystal i got a shiny cleffa from the egg they give you
That egg they give you from the daycare in Crystal always has a set 15% chance to be shiny
I've never gotten it though
A grimer in Moon.
Is the dice roll for a shiny done when the egg hatches or when you received it?
a few times, though they were both in gens after the base odds were lowered
>weepinbell in X
>alolan meowth in moon
i know what you're trying to do with the OP picture but now it makes me want to hunt a koffing in gen 2 because it looks really good in it i just have to replace the battery first though
pretty sure it's when you receive the egg, i know a couple gens have some sort of glitch where you can see what the mon inside the egg is like prematurely.
Shit.
I'm 34 and I honestly don't think I ever have. I stopped after X and Y though.
Stopped too soon, same situation but i found my first 2 shinies in x
My first shiny was a zubat
2nd was a geodude
Love caves...
Maybe, but I was a dumb kid with no friends and we didn't have internet back then really
so if i did i wouldn't have even known it was a shiny or what shinies were
i did the masuda method in ORAS, i think. for a shiny absol
When I was 11 when Diamond came out, I caught a shiny ponyta out in the wild while grinding up for one of the gyms
Yeah, a fricking ZUBAT.
I didn't even know what they were until a few years ago. Stopped playing the games after Gen 2 and hadn't played another Pokemon game until Shining Pearl this year and I found two in the same hour. Barboach and Marill. Both were the first time I even saw the Pokemon because that game is obsessed with showering you in Geodudes and Bidoofs.
>Emile
Frick you. No one cares about chuggaconroy anymore. Just let him sniff feet in peace.
Once in a Bootleg Pokemon Leafgreen Cart, a Pidgey.
Once in Pokemon Sword, a Sandaconda.
And Four times in Pokemon Scarlet - Scatterbug, Flamigo, Doduo, Chancey.
Crazy how easy it is in Scarlet, due to all the mons you can see at once, on top of the rate being higher, I'm pretty sure
In crystal i found a shiny gyrados chilling in the middle of the lake
dude... same, wtf?
Yo... Same!
wtf i'm gay now
In Crystal a shiny geodude in one of the Rocket base traps that immediately kills itself and it happened again in Heartgold I shit you not
I'm still coming to terms with the idea that there will never be another Chuggaaconroy LP ever again...
Have you ever said the N word for money and then got away with it in SJW groups?
I got a shiny Spearow within 30 minutes of booting up fire red for the first time back when it came out.
Yes but not until S/V, where the shiny % chance is a lot higher.
Got me a shiny Zubat and a shiny Ghastly
During my time getting a full living dex in Heart Gold I found a shiny Gabite in Sapphire and made the mistake of evolving it to Garchomp.
I did once, but I let it go, because pallet-swap are 99% shit compared to the original. I don't care about their superficial rarity.
is part of the 1%
Sure
Not counting Masters Ex my last shiny was a female Zoroark I got from a max raid
yeah a few times in fire red leaf green, one persian and one sandshrew.
>anime portrays the bond between trainer and Pokemon as something where the Pokemon is usually the first/only of its kind the trainer catches and is trained over many battles to grow into a great battler
>games: "I'm going to reroll thousands of times to get the shiny version and then several thousand more because it had sucky stats that aren't worth leveling"
Shiny Pokemon and the concept of "Natures" has completely ruined the fun of the series. Back in the day, you caught the cool looking dude and then you leveled it to get stronger.
Those features are in the game because they're meant to make each pokemon feel unique and special to you. Savescumming for stats is puppymill bevahiour.
Yep a couple, first wild encounter one one was a Growlithe in Pokémon Sun even though i been playing from Yellow (In other words i played from prior to shinies being a thing), First Egg one was a Froakie when i was breeding starters to trade in Y.
I mean, you don't HAVE to go for shinies and like 90% of them are visual downgrades anyway, and natures and IVs have been non issues ever since mints and caps were introduced anyway unless you are a "0 attack" Autist (or "0 Speed for Trick-Roomers"). Perosnally i like natures just because they give a bit more flavour text and Proud of its powergay won.
I didn't know how rare they were til I went online and saw people talking about them. I just assumed it was like 1 in every 50 pokemon because I've come across like 5 of them over the years
In FireRed I found a shiny Exeggcute in the safari zone it fled
as a kid i caught a shiny magikarp in one of the gen 3 games and evolved it because i wasnt aware of the lake of rage lole
If you play long enough it's inevitable, but it will only happen the moment you stop thinking about it
>get Pikachu & Pichu GBC and Silver for birthday
>first shiny is a Totodile
>feel like I used all my luck as kid
A few times, including shiny Giratina
A few times, but I just wanted to end the game after a while so I didn't bother capturing.
First shiny I saw was in silver with a shiny rattata I thought it was a bug forever when I was young.
a shiny raikou right after falkner
I've had many. Discounting the red gyarados, my first shiny encounter was a Magikarp in the Dragon's Den in silver.
Also, I've never failed to capture a shiny, somehow.
Yes several but the best one was Suicune in Heart Gold. I failed to catch it several times and kept resetting and then the shiny one appears and I easily catch it somehow.
Feels good man.
first time I played Gold as a kid I ran into a shiny ho-oh
despite the whole spiel with red gyrados I thought nothing of it, just assumed it was legendary flare
wound up saving over the file at some point, unless I traded it over to ruby/sapphire at some point, though I doubt that.
I also found a shiny tentacool much later in Black or White and actually knew what it was
A fricking oddish in crystal
Gen 1er here, never knew there were shiny mons until after I stopped playing after gen III
Wurmple Too bad it was on a pirated Ruby cart.
>play poke gen 2/3 for years
>get nothing
>replaying pearl
>get 2 shinies and pokerus
>entire boxes full of 'rus'd mons
blessed game
pic rel, my first shiny which is some worthless moron i hate
Floatzel is cute and hot though?
Don't be a moron.
mommy
Only shiny I ever got was the fricking garfield looking alolan meowth.
The first shiny I ever encountered was a Nidoran in the Safari Zone of Firered. I didn't know what a shiny was or even have time to process it before it ran away.
I didn't see another shiny in 10(?) years until I starting actively breeding for them.
Got a shiny Staravia which I wonder traded away
A handful of times. I also got Porkerus back when it was super rare, but I knew of it at least, so it wasn't totally mind-blowing.
Ive gotten like 4 shiny zubat line pokemon, 2 spearow line and an asortment of other ones that I dont care about, never one that I like
Outside of like ROMhacks with increased odds of course
I found a shiny hoothoot on gold, I had no idea that shinies were a thing, I just thought it was a scripted encounter because there was a shiny one on the anime as well
yes I found and caught a shiny cubone as a kid and my older brother and his fat friend who had played for years never finding one both seethed in jealousy so they deleted it
Found a shiny Zubat while I was playing a friend's Pokemon Ruby game because he was stuck at the final Team Magma stretch and found a shiny Zubat on my way to Kyogre
and the fricker refused to let me have it with a trade
Grinded for Shiny Entei a long time ago. Took about 4ish hours but it was so cool.
I've found a frick ton of them growing up i just don't have them anymore.
Shiny Ariados in Crystal on my Lime Green GBC. Few others after that but I can't remember which.
This pic fills me with nostalgia. I loved Chuggaaconroy's videos when I was a kid. The pokemon videos were especially helpful. I didn't know how to interpret stats at all, so his reviews for each obtainable pokemon really helped me learn which ones were good or bad.
cumulatively i think i found like 4 in all my years of playing
Yes. 1 in silver (not gyarados of course)
2 in sapphire
1 in diamond
I stopped playing pokemon after this because the formula got stale and I was over it.
My Scarlet Pokedex says I've encountered 2 shiny mons. I don't have any in my boxes, though, so I figure I didn't even notice and KO'd them while grinding.
yeah and i one hitted without even thinking, only time ive ever seen one
shinys are zoomer shit
It's been a thing since Gold / Silver.
Whismur on the gba days then 2 to 4 per generation later, they all sucked
No, and I've been playing this series since I was six years old. I don't care to waste my limited time shiny hunting.
a lanturn when Chain Fishing in pokemon x, but the first and only shiny I got by just appearing was a shinny oddish in or that I lost when I deleted the save
Yes
>Gold
Rattata just before I got Pokeballs
Pidgey
>Crystal
Onix
>Ruby
Zigzagoon
>Emerald
Magikarp
Sableye
Makuhita
Wailmer
>Firered
Pidgey
>Platinum
Starly
>Heartgold
Pidgey
Raikou
>White
Audino
>White 2
Minccino
>Y
too many from that friend Safari Zone clone and fishing
>Omega Ruby
Ralts
Nosepass
>Sun
too many from Adrenaline Orb spam, greatest achievement is a lvl 12 Salamence
>Ultra Sun
too many from Adrenaline Orb spam and wormhole jumping, got a shiny Suicine, Kartana and Giratina
>Sword
Sizzilepede
Ponyta
Heatmor
Sandaconda
>Scarlet
Haven't seen anything yet, not sure if they actually appear on the overworld
>Haven't seen anything yet, not sure if they actually appear on the overworld
they do, they were piss easy to get before they reduced the amount of Pokémon in the overworld
>they were piss easy to get before they reduced the amount of Pokémon in the overworld
Really? Well frick
Buizel in legends arceus, first and only
I used to Spoof in Go when they said you would be able to transfer mons to future games. Time finally came that you could do that and i didn't even care about the current games to bother, so i've got about 30 shinies sitting in bank. Guess ralts is my favorite of them, gonna evolve it into a nice gallade at some point.
I recently got a random shiny Elekid and Zubat while doing some Legends Arceus postgame
I believe only twice. A shiny Rhyhorn in FRLG safari zone when I was a kid, and a male Sandile when SM came out. I’ve never really hunted though and use repels all the time so it’s probably not THAT uncommon
I found a shiny of that pedo-looking psychic pokemon. Looked mad gay.
yeah the mandatory red gyarados in gen 2
So is this guy autistic or just a predator or both?
He is just insanely autistic. I won't call him a predator because none of the girls ever said "I don't like this, stop talking to me." or utilized the block button even once.
Yes, once in pokemon silver. It was a tentacruel. I threw a masterball at it and then I couldn't find it. Maybe because my box was full? I don't remember.
Have a golbat in emerald and found a shiny meowth in Sun but due to shitty 3d, shitty shiny difference and night time i couldn't tell the difference and killed it.
Yes. Golbat
The new games making shinies so common made them stop feeling special. They need to come up with something new and rarer.
First natural shiny I ever got was a magikarp in gold. I was fricking furious.
i found a shiny onix in fire red years ago on an emulator. a few days later my phone stopped working and i lost the save