>>52035986I remember in my first run of SM, I was exploring a route for the first time. In this route I was checking every corner as usual, digging around, and suddenly an eevee showed up. I didn't even know eevees were on this route, it was the first one I encountered, and it was shiny too. I wasn't ready for a shiny, didn't have a team prepped to weaken and sleep, didn't have great balls, but I pulled it out and had a shiny Leafeon for my run. It was great, it felt fun and made a novel moment to remember.
You will never have this. What you have is standing on a podium in an empty stadium, didn't compete in any event or win anything, you're just standing there because it's higher than the ground. And you compare that to actually winning and earning your spot there. Forced shinies are nothing.
