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Sup /vp/, I just got my first non-scripted shiny in Black 2, I would've preferred a more useful one, but, whatever (pic related). How about we get a thread going about experiences finding shinies, first non scripted shinies you've caught (this means the special Gyarados, Haxorus, Gible, Dratini, and any event ones won't count), any that you've missed, and just generally what shinies you have, even events and trade can be in here, all together I've got, Durant, Haxorus, Raikou, Arbok, Gible, Dustox, Gyarados, Breloom, Golem, and now Patrat. I've also got a Gyarados and Cleffable in Crystal, but, I can't transfer those. Both Gyarados', Haxorus, and Gible were scripted, Durant and Breloom were gotten in trades, Raikou was an event, and the Cleffable came from that egg that has a higher chance of being shiny (didn't realize it was shiny for a couple years). However, Dustox was found in Diamond as a Wurmple, and Golem was found as a Geodude in the same playthrough, and Arbok was found in SoulSilver. I also missed a shiny Machoke as a kid because I only had 2 lure balls
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I found a shiny graveler in a Crystal ROM, only shiny I've ever seen in 15 years of playing pokemon.
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at least it wasn't ice cream
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Found a shiny sableye in sky tower on my gorillionth playthrough
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Caught my first black 2 shiny yesterday while catching dittos. So I was prepared, still it was scary when it used trash.
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>First Shiny: Golduck, Crystal >Shiny Pokemon caught: Cascoon, Starly, Magikarp, Goldeen, Giratina >Biggest "Fuck" shiny moment: In Rocket Hideout in Silver, have to kill electrodes, one of them is shiny, uses self-destruct
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I caught a fuckload of pokemon and they were all shiny after I put them through pokesav.
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>>12158488 Who doesn't love ice cream?
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First Shiny was a Latias on Ruby. Eventually found a shiny hariyama on emerald, pidgey on leaf green, tentacool on sapphire, and Houndoom from a trade in HGSS. Have yet to find any on 4th gen or 5th gen personally. My girlfriend got 3 fuckin shinies just playing though the story on white though holy shit. I thought they raised the chance of encountering one or something but nope.
Gen1 worked just fine without any shinies.
Anonymous
My first shiny was a Drowzee in Crystal. I caught it and named it Sandman, raised it to be a Hypno, and it was one of my favorite pokémon for an extremely long time. My shinies overall have been, in order: Drowzee, Graveler, Sentret, Cacnea, Wingull, Kyogre, Treecko, Ditto, Moltres, Happiny, Dewgong, Klink, and Onix. Biggest "FUCK" moment: Running out of Ultra balls on a shiny Mewtwo in FireRed.
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>>12158531 But Gen 1 was horribly broken and unbalanced
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>>12158577 At that point I would probably just shut off my game and not touch it for a week...
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>>12158531 honestly the only reason they added shinys is so we cant do other stuff while mindlessly training wihout looking at the screen every 5 sec, catching the pkmn if not sure
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I got a Watchog as I was grinding for pokedex completion. I also wished it was something more useful
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>>12158531 no shinies gave gen 1 it's charm
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First shiny I ever caught was a shiny golbat back in 2007 on my firered game. Pretty sure it was in victory road if I remember correctly I had been playing since red and blue as a kid and had never even heard of shiny pokemon until I came across him. Even though the zubat line is one of the more common shiny pokemon people across, I still love my pink crobat My only regret is not naming him when I had the chance
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>found female Hippowdon >thought it was shiny for a second >looked it up Gaddam videogame
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>>12158769 It wouldn't be for another 4 years until I saw another shiny. Oddly enough, it was another poison type, found the koffing inside the burn tower while on my first play through of heartgold.
The teal colouring is pretty awesome, and thankfully is was another pokemon that was actually useful (sorry OP)
So yeah. 15+ years of playing and I've only every come across these two
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>first shiny Budew in Diamond, accidentally killed it>Shinies successfully caught Sentret, Meowth, Electrike, Ponyta, Wurmple, Goldeen.... And then an Umbreon, which I received in a trade and I'm guessing doesn't count.
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My first and so far only non-scripted shiny goes as follows:>playing Platinum rom >looking for Light Ball Pikachu >"A wild Pichu appeared!" >yeah, whatever >see sparkles out of the corner of my eye >that motherfucker is shiny >catch it >permabox it because Pichu sucks
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>>12158801 No need to apologize, that's awesome, I've actually wanted a shiny Crobat for a while, I've got the shiny charm, so I think I might Masuda method a Zubat, and Koffing is pretty nice too, mostly for competitive or Battle Subway/PWT, which is great for post game, those are two damn fine shinies
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>>12158901 Why not just evolve it?
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This is how I found my first shiny:>
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>>12158919 It's weird how coming across a shiny will make you change your opinion of a pokemon. I probably never would have raised a crobat or weezing had it not been for getting shinies of them.
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This fucker right here. It's the only time I've ever kept a Magikarp from evolving because I knew nobody would believe me if I said I had a shiny Gyarados that wasn't from Lake of Rage. Found it while Feebas hunting in Sapphire, and flipped shit because my GBA had started showing it was low on batteries at that point. Caught it with an ultra ball after a few tries.
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>>12159048 >caught it with an ultra ball >clearly has been caught with a master ball nice try there
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>>12159048 >OT: ASH youre the worst kind of person
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I got a Psyduck, Ekans, Rapidash and I almost caught a Koffing but it used selfdestruct
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>First shiny: Drowzee in Silver >Others: Pidgeotto, Slowpoke, Treecko, Shuppet, Kricketune, Hoothoot, Swadloon >On roms: Girafarig, Ralts
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first shiny was a Tentacool in Gold. I played it on the original Gameboy so I didn't even notice that it was a shiny. Found a shiny Krabby later. And a Geodude which killed itself. In Fire Red I found a shiny Magikarp....which kind of sucks. No luck in Gen IV and V so far.
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my four shines ive found all fucking suck 1: spinda. You fucking kidding me, game 2: gravler. Cool, but don't wanna trade it 3: roggenrolla. See two 4: Nidoran female. All I have to say is fuck you bayleaf.
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I been playing pokemon for 15 years and My first shiny was during my grinding for the elite four in victory road last year. It was a Boldore. I did eventually trade it for a bulbasaur . Totally regrettable in retrospect. But that bulbasaur started my breeding and trading for other pokemon. Now I have all the starters and others from previous gens. I was all about filling up my pokedex. I did eventually get payback when I got a shiny Braviary for trading a charmander Total shinies:>litwick found during sp.att ev training >swanna found during egg hatching on a bridge >Lunatone found during my random run through a cave shinies gotten for trades>lvl100 voltorbe (thanks a lot asshole) >castform I'm currently working on soft-starting my firered for a shiny chamander. all these shinies feeeeeeels goood.
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I had a Japanese Ditto from GTS for Masudamethoding. I never used it because I don't like shiny pokemon
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>OT ASH >Master ball :|
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>>12158451 Dude. Patrat was mine too, but in white.I also caught a shiny Deerling
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First shiny was a Chansey in Gold. Funnily enough, I traded the first Chansey I got for that Aerodactyl, before realizing Chansey can evolve, so I hunted it down for three days before finding it, and whaddya know, it's shiny.
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>First Shiny: Oddish >Future Shinies: Oddish, Oddish >Biggest WTF: Getting 3 shiny oddishes.
Gear !!8NwjRFpF6q1
>Shiny Sandile in White >SpA Nature
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>>12159960 Same here.
>found this dude on Victory Road in White >known for high Sp. Attack >checked stats >Jolly Nature Anonymous
I've never ever hands down seen a shiny on any pokemon game I've ever played. I've played every single one multiple times and have NEVER seen one. My friend in 5th grade saw a shiny butterfree, but didn't catch it. So what's wrong? Am I THAT fucking unlucky?
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>>12159474 shines for starters? what is this madness!
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I had some unused Master Balls from gold/silver, then transferred them to crystal to catch the legendary beasts. Caught Entei and Suicune (why not) in Master Balls, I couldn't find Raikou. Two months later, Im grinding some pokemon near Pryce's gym, then suddenly a wild shiny Raikou! I was so happy I found a shiny!... Until I remembered that I couldn't transfer it to Emerald. It now resides in a stadium box with a shiny Gyarados, Jynx and Ditto, never to be used again...
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>>12158451 After over a decade, I finally caught my first on a nuzlocke of FireRed. It was a shiny weedle. He is now a shiny Beedrill who's integral to my team.
God I'll die if he faints...
He'll have a whole graveyard all to himself.
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The only time i have ever found a shiny was a Pidgeotto in LeagGreen. Transferred it to Diamond and use my shiny Pidgeot every now and then, not one of my favorites but I have a soft spot for it because when I was a kid, Pidgeot was my favorite pokemon while playing in Gen 1, when I couldn't figure out how to give the guards to Sabrina's town water and I ended up leveling Pidgeot to over 60...those were the days