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>over decade ago back in school playing FR on emulator
>train Growlithe on Raticates in that mansion with books about Mewtwo
>encounter another Raticate but I have impression that it looks a bit different
>catch it just in case
>google "different color raticate" or something and find out about shinies for the first time and how rare they are
>years later play Emerald, also om emulator
>pretty early in the game contract pokerus or catch Ralts carrying it
>soon find and catch shiny Wurmple
>another couple years later
>finally get NDS and HG
>play game for months with nothing unusual
>whle EV training some pokemon encounter shiny fucking Unown and catch it
>recently play Platinum on emulator and within like 3 days pokerus, shiny Gastly while EV training, and then encounter Shiny Onix during lvl training by abusing double battles with Riley
>didn't even get to check if I can catch something in double battle if I kil everyone except shiny enemy because Graveler that spawned with it exploded on my pokemon witch to not kill it with earthquake
>just RIGHT FUCKING NOW playing HG on NDS again
>catch pic related while lvl training Metagross in Victory Road
Too bad it's after wi-fi servers for gen4 closed.
