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>Playing PLA
>Almost finished with the game, only a few pokemon left to do
>Space-time distortion nearly kills me
>Get out with my life
>Find random shiny Machoke
>Catch it without issue
>Decide to complete Clefairy's dex so I can shiny hunt it
>Complete it a bit later
>Fast forward to two in-game nights
>Trying to complete Cleffa and Clefable
>Spot something on the other side of the water
>Shiny Clefairy
>Panic and forget to save
>It escapes the Ultra Ball
>It runs away
>Proceed to hunt it out of pure furstration and catch/defeat every Clefairy in the area for several cycles
>Find nothing
>Next day
>Find a random shiny Golbat and then a Drifblim while searching for wisps
>They both get caught
It feels like the game was fucking with me. The only fucking one I actually wanted to find was the one that got away. At least now I have the shiny charm so I can hunt it more easily, but god did that hurt on a spiritual level.
