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Two stories:
>Playing Firered
>Go to the Safari Zone in search of a Scyther to complete my team
>Spend a good 1-2 hours trying to find and catch that fucker
>finally catch one
>head along to route 15
>first encounter I find is a shiny Venonat
>fuck yeah I'm using that on my team
>all that time I wasted on Scyther might as well be pointless now
>mfw blue Venomoth didn't disappoint in the least
In all honest I was was debating whether or not to use her on my team because of the poor typing and mediocre stats but I was shocked at how useful Venomoth managed to be.
>playing Soul Silver on Christmas day no less
>grinding in Victory Road for 5 hours because piss poor level level scaling
>about to get my entire team to level 40
>final encounter before I use repels the rest of the cave is a shiny Graveler
>catch that bitch
>I don't even like Graveler so I box him
>a month later I find a thread just like this one
>mention that I caught a useless Graveler
>so WFG person asks for it
>trades me a "mystery egg" IE the Togepi egg Elm gives you
>don't really give a fuck because I don't like Graveler/Golem, Togekiss is a badass, I don't even like HG/SS
>never end up touching my SS game after that
I knew I was gonna get robbed of my shiny but I did make it pretty clear that I hate the Geodude line and wasn't going to use him anyways. It also knew self destruct I later found out.