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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:05:34 No.14536985 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>14537058 >>14537324 >>14538409 >>14539418

Shinies seem to be a lot more common in X and Y.
mfw I caught 2 shinies in LeafGreen and White when they were super rare.

Also pre-X and Y shiny encounters thread.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:07:01 No.14537013 Report

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caught a shiny wingull on ruby, that was about it.
on X I've so far caught 3 shinies.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:08:54 No.14537058 Report

Quoted By: >>14537113

>>14536985
how is that even possible? shinies are like 1 in a million or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:11:17 No.14537103 Report

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Encountered a shiny tailow on sapphire. At the time i didn't know about shinies, I thought my gba was fucked. That was my only ever shiny encounter :(

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:11:20 No.14537104 Report

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Emulator shinies don't count by the way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:11:40 No.14537113 Report

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>>14537058
1/8100 something, Seems to possibly be lower now though

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:13:46 No.14537150 Report

Quoted By: >>14537195

Here's a pic I made of my collection a few years back since I haven't found shit since pokeradar back in Diamond. Hoping to score some good ones this gen.

Also, MUH DICK when I mega evolve my Aggron and Mewtwo, too bad I kinda need Pokemon Y for that.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:16:24 No.14537195 Report

Quoted By: >>14537276

>>14537150
all dat green, how odd.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:17:37 No.14537220 Report

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The only non-event shiny I ever got was a shiny tentacool in Ruby

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:18:36 No.14537237 Report

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I have NEVER met a shiny except for the red Gyarados

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:20:53 No.14537276 Report

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>>14537195

Makes sense when like 60% of all shinies until at least gen 5 were puke green haha

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:23:37 No.14537324 Report

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>>14536985
>tfw evolved my Pancham an now he looks shit. boxed forever

40% !//v.13zk5M

40% !//v.13zk5M Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:30:59 No.14537436 Report

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I have a shiny Sharpedo. Got it as a Carvahna when fishing for Feebas in Sapphire.
Shiny Lucario. Got it while breeding.
Shiny Luxray. Breeding.
Shiny Magnezone. Radar'd.

Had a shiny Unown E. Traded it for something, I forgot what.

Years ago when first playing Colosseum, I came across a shiny Shadow Metagross. Didn't know shinies existed outside Gyarados, so I thought it was a glitch. For some reason I convinced myself to reset thinking it would "fix the glitch", not only losing several hours of progress, but also causing the Metagross to no longer be shiny. I was horrified a year later when I checked Serebii and saw what shinies were.

There's probably more but that's what I remember off the top of my head. Not seen anything in X or Y yet though.

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 13:32:58 No.14537469 Report

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>Masudas face

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:09:19 No.14538120 Report

Quoted By: >>14538409

Isn't the chance like 4 times higher or something?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:12:09 No.14538183 Report

Quoted By: >>14538828

>release day
>thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people playing the game
>if most people play for like 3-4~hours they'll encounter about oh, 100 pokemon?
>that means 1/80 people will encounter a pokemon in 3~4 hours

Still seems to be 1/8000, considering how much we've seen of the shinies of the new pokemon.

Learn to middle school math /vp/.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:12:56 No.14538198 Report

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my first shiny ever was last year, in my birthday, A FUCKING BIDOOF

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:17:36 No.14538275 Report

Quoted By: >>14538366

I've caught shit tons of shinies in Diamond.

Just shit tons.

However there was no joy in it.

My ex girlfriend used to make me pokeradar for shinies.

Hours upon hours I slaved away, mastering that fucking stupid chaining, always sweating that I messed it up before stepping into the next brush. But the rewards were plenty, a ton of shinies... for her.

Looking back, I'm glad she dumped me.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:21:51 No.14538366 Report

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>>14538275
N would fight for your slavery

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:23:52 No.14538409 Report

Quoted By: >>14538456

>>14536985
>>14538120

I did some testing based off of a hunch

I soft reset for shiny Zygarde, 10020 resets, pretty normal

Did it again, 8930 resets, normal again

I then went to the friend code thread and filled up my friend code list

2030 for a shiny. Did it again 3890

I think having people on your friend list increases chances of a shiny

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:25:52 No.14538456 Report

Quoted By: >>14538817

>>14538409

>I soft reset for shiny Zygarde, 10020 resets, pretty normal
>8930 resets, normal again
>2030 for a shiny. Did it again 3890

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:30:10 No.14538539 Report

Quoted By: >>14538771 >>14539534

>play crystal
> find shiny miltank
>first time seeing a shiny and don't know what it is
>kill it
>never findy shiny again

feels bad man

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:40:15 No.14538747 Report

Quoted By: >>14538852

So I found my old gameboy color with crystal version in it while cleaning today and I found some interesting stuff on it (the fact the save file still worked was pretty great to begin with). I'd apparently done a solo run last time I played the game since all I had was a lvl100 feraligator and a few low level HM-slaves.
One such slave was a lvl5 Elekid I had hatched from the daycare couple. I clearly kept it around for when I had to use flash.
Well I decided to train the thing for giggles.
Turns out I'd had a shiny elekid for like 5 years and never knew it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:41:14 No.14538771 Report

Quoted By: >>14538801

>>14538539
>crystal
>get a shiny graveller
>ask friend if he'll trade me and then back so I can have shiny Golem
>he keeps the shiny golem

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:42:25 No.14538801 Report

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>>14538771
that was no friend

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:43:02 No.14538817 Report

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>>14538456
>this guy has never reset 50 000 times for a shiny charmander

toppest of lels m8

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:43:14 No.14538828 Report

Quoted By: >>14539456

>>14538183
>thousands upon thousands upon thousands of people playing the game
>who all post on /vp/

Nope. The fact is that /vp/s smaller sample size is actually a STRONG arguement for the higher rates. Why don't you exercise your brain?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:44:14 No.14538852 Report

Quoted By: >>14538914

>>14538747
Trade it up? Can't you transfer it to a GCN then go from GCN to GBA and GBA to DS than finally pokebank?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:45:54 No.14538895 Report

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>Be 13
>Play through fire red
>trade mons to friend then back when I get national dex on new save
>Do this 3 times for starters and roaming legionaries
>Also had kyogres and those legendaries coming out of my ass from my friend.
>Omw through seafoam islands
>Shiney zubat appeared
>Backflips all day
>My team has shiny crobat now :D
>About a year later another friend had a sapphire version that wouldn't keep save files very long
>He'd never seen a shiney before
>My pink crobat was amazing to him
>Offer to trade for the sapphire version because I wanted my own access to hoenn starters and early pokemon
>about 2 months later pokemon sapphire goes in the bin

Don't regret a thing, somehow

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:46:40 No.14538914 Report

Quoted By: >>14538951 >>14539003

>>14538852
Pretty sure GBC -> GBA is impossible, GCN and GBC are not compatible. Everything gen 1 and 2 is stuck forever.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:47:51 No.14538951 Report

Quoted By: >>14539003

>>14538914
I thought there was some rare esoteric pokemon game on gcn that nintendo did a limited release of that let you do it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:49:56 No.14539003 Report

Quoted By: >>14539024

>>14538914
>>14538951
nevermind, I was thinking of this

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Box_Ruby_%26_Sapphire

Doesn't help with gbc ones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:50:42 No.14539024 Report

Quoted By: >>14539246

>>14539003
yeah sadly the little bugger is stuck in my crystal version

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:53:24 No.14539093 Report

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Alright so I was playing Silver version post-game, I had already completed all the challenges, beat all the gyms, all that jazz. i was bored so I decided to walk around Route 29 for old time's sake... I was murdering ratatas and pidgeys for a few minutes when, suddenly, I run into a wild shiny Pichu. I shit you not, it was the coolest fucking thing. I caught the shiny pichu and then never did anything with it. To my knowledge, it's not even possible for this to happen, so I have no idea what the fuck, but I remember it like it was yesterday.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 14:58:53 No.14539246 Report

Quoted By: >>14539318

>>14539024
i'd feel justified cheating my way to a shiny elekid given your situation

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:02:40 No.14539318 Report

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>>14539246
I'm considering it. Only other shiny I caught in gen II was a miltank I got in my silver version, the cartridge of which is dead.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:07:01 No.14539418 Report

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>>14536985
I just hatched a masuda method shiny honedge and i need a name, anyone got a good suggestion?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:08:18 No.14539456 Report

Quoted By: >>14539499

>>14538828
>there is literally over 4,000 users on /r/pokemon right now

You fucking spastic.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:10:27 No.14539499 Report

Quoted By: >>14539553

>>14539456

Reddit ain't 4chin you colossal sack of shit. And even then 4000 is a fucking tiny number and honestly if the rate is still the same 400 users should mean much less shiny finds than have happened

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:11:57 No.14539534 Report

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>>14538539
I remember seeing my first shiny, a shiny golduck in Gold. I thought it has something to do with the lake where I found it and quickly became "that kid" telling stories of glitch lake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:12:32 No.14539553 Report

Quoted By: >>14539573

>>14539499
4000 means that if everyone went into TWO encounters at the same time, it would be extremely likely that at least 1 of them finds a shiny.

Think how often encounters occur.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:13:32 No.14539573 Report

Quoted By: >>14539594

>>14539553
>it would be extremely likely that at least 1 of them finds a shiny.
Think how many shinies have been shown and how many people have had more than 1

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:14:19 No.14539594 Report

Quoted By: >>14539611

>>14539573
A proportional amount???

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:15:08 No.14539611 Report

Quoted By: >>14539644

>>14539594
Nope. I was here for gen V. There's been way more

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:16:29 No.14539644 Report

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>>14539611
So was I?! There's more people here now for a start and we had pretty much all the shinies when the Japs got it! Sort it out

joop !H6/h5U6Xrs

joop !H6/h5U6Xrs Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:17:00 No.14539656 Report

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I was grinding before facing the Elite 4 in HG. Saw a shiny. Caught it. I now have a shiny Rapidash

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:19:40 No.14539725 Report

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I caught a shiny Kingler and a shiny Tentacool (evolved it) in HeartGold. I especially love that Kingler.

Jack 1478-4213-3451

Jack 1478-4213-3451 Sun 13 Oct 2013 15:28:41 No.14539965 Report

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A bit of conjecture here.

In an earlier thread someone suggested that perhaps Shiny encounter rates were affected by how many friends you have registered. No evidence, just a thought.

I'd like to take that notion a bit further and argue that perhaps having friends from multiple countries may increase your odds.

Have been playing on a Japanese 3DS and have been taking part in 3DS friend code exchange threads regularly and have encountered two shinies before reaching the second gym. So maybe there could be a friend code counterpart to the Masuda method?

Again, no real evidence to back it up but I think it sounds like something Gamefreak would do, being big on connectivity and all that.

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