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Improbable things

OP Thu 26 May 2016 04:13:44 No.26478057 View View Reply Original Report

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What are the most RNG-unlikely things that you have ever done while playing Pokemon, /vp/?
Earlier, I caught two shiny Dittos with only one encounter separating them.
Pic related, Ditto 1

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:17:41 No.26478091 Report

Quoted By: >>26478637

>>26478057
I've gotten Pokerus twice.
I also got a modest shiny Vanillite with a 31 in special attack while horde training, and then got another one within 30 minutes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:18:42 No.26478103 Report

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I had a similar thing happen in friend safari except they were maybe 5-7 encounters apart

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:18:54 No.26478105 Report

Quoted By: >>26478152

It took me about 1500 eggs to get a shiny pidgey.

I immediately started work on Growlithe after and it was the first egg.

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OP Thu 26 May 2016 04:24:28 No.26478152 Report

Quoted By: >>26478239 >>26478257 >>26479348

>>26478057
And shiny number 2
I was attempting to chain for the Dexnav, so I know that increases the chances, but these were my first and third encounters, respectively. I don't even have a shiny charm.

Additionally, back in Yellow, I caught Articuno with a Pokeball on the first turn. That probably surprised me more than this did.

>>26478105
Do you have a shiny charm? Sounds like you actually got both pretty quickly if you don't.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:27:05 No.26478176 Report

Quoted By: >>26478206

When I was replaying Platinum about a year ago. I was level grinding in Victory Road, and encountered a shiny Graveler, and then a shiny Onix less than an hour later.

I've been playing Pokemon since 1998 (and games where you could actually get shinies since 2001), and I've only ever found one other shiny in the wild, a Paras in Soul Silver back in like 2011. Go figure.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:30:27 No.26478206 Report

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>>26478176
Also, fun fact about the Paras: When I caught it, I had the sound off and wasn't paying attention, so I had no idea it was a shiny until I checked my PC box later.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:33:05 No.26478239 Report

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>>26478152
10/10 name

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:35:17 No.26478257 Report

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>>26478152
I do have the shiny charm. Just threw me for a loop because I've hatched a bunch before but never in just 1 egg

Anonymous

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Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:37:56 No.26478275 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:38:31 No.26478281 Report

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>>26478057
I hit Focus Blast three times in a row.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 04:56:47 No.26478415 Report

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Shiny Startly on Pokemon Diamond day of US release with like 10-15 minutes in game playtime. Probably one of the first people to get a shiny for that gen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:08:26 No.26478492 Report

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>>26478415
... in the US.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:10:41 No.26478506 Report

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>>26478492
That's obvious for anyone who read that post. The only reason I put "day of US release" was because I wanted to inb4 this post.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:12:40 No.26478517 Report

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>>26478057
I got Pokerus from the Sudowoodo in HGSS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:15:25 No.26478533 Report

Quoted By: >>26478566

I got a HA Ditto with 30 HP IVs my first time in the Giant Chasm Grotto.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:15:54 No.26478537 Report

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>>26478506
My bad

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:17:52 No.26478546 Report

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>>26478281
Lies

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:18:11 No.26478548 Report

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Was chaining for shinies in pearl and I went into a normal shaking patch and the pokemon was a shiny, not that exciting but certainly surprising

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:18:57 No.26478554 Report

Quoted By: >>26478560

I'm trying to remember something very lucky/improbable that happened to me..
Nope nothing so far except for a few shinies

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:19:59 No.26478560 Report

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>>26478554
I almost got trips.. Dammit why must life hate me

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:20:03 No.26478561 Report

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I got a good pokemon on wondertrade

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:21:30 No.26478566 Report

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>>26478533
>only 30
into the trash it goes

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:21:51 No.26478569 Report

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I got a Yveltal on wonder trade for my ralts

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:24:23 No.26478583 Report

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missed leech seed 9 times in a row

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:24:49 No.26478586 Report

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>>26478057
I caught a 6IV ditto in HG/SS 4 years ago, didn't know it until last week when I took it out of the Pokemon Bank.

Also, AS Lugia showed up shiny and was 5IV first try. The stat that wasn't perfect was attack :O

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:25:23 No.26478588 Report

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>>26478057
I was in a double battle, down to just my Crobat versus a Lugia and Mewtwo, 1v2, both of them at full health.

Through the most bullshit RNG nonsense, Squibbles the Crobat flinched and confused the almighty shit out of both of them and won the match.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:25:28 No.26478589 Report

Quoted By: >>26478628

Failed to capture a Mewtwo with a Master Ball
It actually has a 0.01% chance of missing or something

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:31:25 No.26478623 Report

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>>26478057
Beat the subway bosses because they actually missed an attack once and didn't crit on every single turn.
I only missed both their pokemon with hone claws boosted rock slides three turns in a row too!

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:32:37 No.26478628 Report

Quoted By: >>26478645

>>26478589
>Only on first generation apparently, 1 in like 60000 chance, approx 8x rarer of an event than finding a shiny pokemon. Also requires a pokemon to have full hp, no status effects, and a low catch rate.

Congrats! ... oh...

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:33:33 No.26478635 Report

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Got Pokérus randomly for the first and only time in the same game I found my only random shiny. That's about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:34:13 No.26478637 Report

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>>26478091
I think this happened to me too. I got pokerus pretty early in the game before I ever found a shiny. I thought it was the greatest thing ever. Eventually I just got tired of it and quarantined all of the infected pokemon in the box. Recently I was leveling some pokemon and didn't notice my whole team was infected. There is a chance I got it from a pokemon that was already infected in my party but I couldn't figure it out. I figured there was a small chance I caught it again. Pissed me off since I didn't want it on any of the pokemon on my party. Had to quarantine the whole party.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:36:37 No.26478645 Report

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>>26478628
Yeah I got pokemon red on the virtual console for old times' sake.
Gen 1 sucks donkey ass.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 05:50:36 No.26478731 Report

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I have been paralyzed five times in a row

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 07:35:08 No.26479310 Report

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Starter Froakie with 31 IV special attack and 30 IV Speed.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 07:45:12 No.26479348 Report

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>>26478152
best name

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 13:04:47 No.26480012 Report

Quoted By: >>26480066 >>26480940

Seven random shinies, three in nuzlocke runs.

Got the Pokérus four times without trading: Ruby, Gold, White nuzlocke and White 2 nuzlocke.

Got a Master ball at the lottery in Diamond thanks to a japanese Torterra.

Lastly, I got a 31 SpA Rash Lanturn in my Heartgold nuzlocke. Such a shame it died.

The only thing I haven't seen yet is Mirage Island in Gen III

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 13:09:23 No.26480066 Report

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>>26480012
I forgot, I also got a Xerneas on Wonder trade

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 13:11:39 No.26480097 Report

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Got to Ambrette Town on my first run of Y, used rock smash, very first pokemon I find is a shiny Binacle. It was actually my first random encounter shiny.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 13:13:49 No.26480123 Report

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I beat Pike Queen Lucy by freezing her Milotic with mine for over 20 turns with only surf and ice beam remaining to hit with. If she thawed she would have used rest and I'd run out of PP and struggle.

I fully expected to be screwed but luck was on my side.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 13:16:44 No.26480155 Report

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>>26478057
Similar story, bit with unowns in oras. Took me 6 months to get to their mirage zone, and I got two shinies while I looked for the 28 forms. Specifically, O and ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 14:07:01 No.26480608 Report

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>>26478057
Me and a pal do shiny hunts at my place every so often, but we decided to step it up from breeding and catch a shiny of every legendary ORAS has to offer. I was resetting for Entei. We sometimes claim that we got it to troll each other just for the heck of it. Not sure what overcame me that time, but I walked up to him and shoved the 3DS in his face saying "This one is going to be it." Pressed the a button to initiate the encounter, and my place turned into a monkey cage the next second. Nobody will ever believe us, but that shit was amazing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 14:12:23 No.26480646 Report

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>>26478057
Shiny seeds come in batches. If you find one, assuming you don't mess the IV and/or the PID frame too much, you can trigger up to three or four in a row (especially if using the Pokeradar, you can trigger up to four shiny patches at once).

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 14:20:12 No.26480709 Report

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>>26478637
I know that my cases were completely unrelated, because one was in a Gen 3 game and the other was in White 2. Pretty incredible that you'd get it twice in the same game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 14:34:19 No.26480853 Report

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>>26478057
Back in HeartGold I caught a shiny Pidgey that was infected with pokerus in Route 6,
I probably wasted all my RNG luck with that single encounter.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 14:36:15 No.26480876 Report

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Surskitt lvl 3 with Hydro pump

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 14:42:36 No.26480940 Report

Quoted By: >>26482478

>>26480012
Are your Gen III batteries dead? If they are you'll never see Mirage Island if the clock didn't stop when it was accessible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 14:46:51 No.26480979 Report

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Caught Mewtwo in a Pokeball by accident.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 17:32:20 No.26482478 Report

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>>26480940
Yes, both in Ruby and Emerald, but according to this: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Mirage_Island

>Whenever "Mirage Island Bytes" are generated, they will not change within the time they are valid, and the player is able to freely move Pokémon from the boxes to the party or vice-versa until a Pokémon that has a matching personality value to the "Mirage Island Bytes" is found and the Mirage Island appears.

>if a game is started while the internal battery is dead the Mirage Island Bytes will be set to 0

So, because of this, wouldn't be possible to access Mirage Island by somehow catching a Pokémon whose first two personality bytes are 0? (I mean, that would be extremely unlikely, but still possible)

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 18:21:04 No.26482885 Report

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After literally thousands of hours across every pokemon game, thousands of eggs and countless encounters, I have never seen a shiny that wasn't an event.
Alternatively, yesterday I went over 200 wild encounters in an area with a 20% encounter rate for the pokemon I wanted, and never saw it. It still shows it as a silhouette on dexnav, rip.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 18:28:10 No.26482931 Report

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>>26478275

I feel sorry for the fucker that caught it, the Gen III Roaming Pokemon IV bug is a bitch.

Anonymous

Anonymous Thu 26 May 2016 19:54:38 No.26483709 Report

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I found a shiny Onix after I ran out of poke balls in a cave. Wouldn't be surprised if they upped the encounter ratio in those cases desu

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