>>58368466I rng manipulated a shiny pokemon in gen 3 10 years ago. It's sitting in my copy of pokemon moon I think. I don't feel anything for it, it just feels like a cheated pokemon. All the other ones I've caught and trained don't feel that way to me. Maybe it's no different to you but my particular brand of autism doesn't connect to pokemon that are rng manipulated. This is how I figure it: What does a shiny pokemon have that a regular one does not have?
one: a different color palette
two: it's much rarer than a non-shiny pokemon
If you rng manipulate it, or inject it, or any other method to cheat, it loses the quality of being rare and special completely. So then it just becomes an alternate color palette. Even if you get a full odds shiny on encounter 1, it's still special because you know just how rare and exceptional that encounter was. If I catch this ralts at full odds, it will be special in a way it won't be if I rng manipulate to get it.
