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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 10:40:20 GMT -5
I remember this one time when I was going through Wayward Cave in my Diamond version with Mira, the girl you escort. I got sick of Zubat and Geodude just popping up at my every other second. I had my AR in, so I merely walked through the rocks with Mira getting quite stuck behind me. I didn't care, and I waltzed across a lake like it was nothing.
At this point, I was still a total n00b about Pokemon. I got into another double battle on the water, but my game was glitching out because I was using the AR to walk to places Mira couldn't go. I sent out my Prinplup, and Mira's placeholder showed my Prinplup next to me, exactly the same. Across from us was something that appeared like Missingno. and a Zubat.
Now, I was no expert, but the Zubat looked a little funny to me. When it appeared, it made a strange noise, and little stars showed up. At the time, I thought it was part of the glitch, and I ran from the battle, afraid it would freeze or worse if I attempted to attack.
It's only now, five or more years later, that I realized what I'd done. I'd run from a totally chanced-encounter with a shiny.
....Drat. :c
What about you guys? Any cool stories to tell about encountering shines, either in the wild or by chaining or other methods?
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Post by Pantherstar on Jul 5, 2012 11:57:13 GMT -5
When I was a n00b, I randomly found a shiny Wingull around Pastoria City. I thought it was cool, but I didn't understand just how rare shiny Pokemon were... I tried to catch it, but I gave up and decided to kill it. I'm still kicking myself for being so naive and impatient...
My first non-Gyarados shiny was a Snover that I randomly encountered on Mt. Coronet. That was back in early 2010, I believe. I flipped out and caught it right away, and it's now an Abomasnow uncreatively named Pine.
The first shiny I chained was a Shinx. I had been trying for days to get myself a shiny Pokemon with the PokeRadar, but I barely even got past chains of ten. There was a meteor shower that night, and my mom told me to wish upon a shooting star. I thought that was stupid, but I did anyway; since I was very frustrated with the PokeRadar at that point, I wished to find a shiny Pokemon. Later, when I was chaining in bed, something unusual happened when I made a chain of twenty-one Shinx... a patch of grass was glowing, indicating that a shiny Pokemon was hiding there. I freaked out and caught it, naming it (again, super unoriginal here) Lightning.
I also encountered another shiny when I was at a hotel in Toronto. I was bored in HeartGold, so I decided to participate in the Bug Catching Contest. After running into and fleeing from a Wurmple and a Nincada, I encountered a Cascoon... a green Cascoon. Too scared to lower its HP, I began chucking Sport Balls at it at full health. I managed to catch it after two attempts. I retired from the contest right away, and it won me third place. One would think a shiny would get a higher score than that!
My Medicham and Butterfree were obtained from the GTS, and I traded a Porygon2 and a Drifblim for them, respectively.
My Charmander was the first Pokemon I RNG'd successfully. It took a bunch of tries to get it right, and I was very excited about the result.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 5, 2012 12:25:01 GMT -5
I chained a shiny Vulpix in my Platnium version, but I cheated slightly, so I could catch it at level one and raise it from the ground-up. It took me several dozen chains of up to forty at a time before I got a result, and since all the Vulpix were level one, they were easy to defeat. (My Zangoose had False Swipe for when I found the shiny.) I believe I also chained a shiny Riolu this way, but I'm not sure if I traded it to Time for safekeeping... I was planning on chaining a shiny Cyndaquil, but I got so bored I simply restarted my game before catching one.
I'm such a cheat, I can't do things the normal way. :/
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Post by lusa on Jul 5, 2012 12:47:21 GMT -5
I saw my first shiny when I was a total n00b, it was an onix, and I did actually try to catch it, but it fainted. My next thought was "Oh, whatever, I'll find another!" My second shiny was a shinx in diamond that I pretty much neglected until I found out how rare it was....Then I deleted the save file, so bye bye to my shiny Luxray (and arceus, and shaymin, and everything else I'm probably not gonna get back) then I found a shiny wurmple in Platnuim, I caught it and evolved it into a Beautifly. I still have it. Lately I have been going to the gts, and I have 29 shinies now. And even as I'm typing this, my shiny Vanillish just evolved.
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Post by Rainfur-sama-senpai-desu on Jul 7, 2012 19:51:44 GMT -5
When I was a noob, I knocked out a shiny Drowzee.
After that, I turned it off and my game never saved again.
creepy.
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Post by Glimmer on Sept 3, 2012 13:22:52 GMT -5
Graveler
Then he went boom
:C
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Post by bravelove on Mar 12, 2013 20:06:00 GMT -5
im still looking
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Post by Luxray on Dec 11, 2013 9:49:28 GMT -5
Ok here is what happened:
(After an hour of chaining)
Me: Grrr why must chaining be so annoying! Im going to look for Noibat
*Goes to a town near terminus cave*
Me: Im going to run out of nicknames for Pokémon soon -.-
*Horde encounter appears*
Me: Oh great a hor... OH MY ARCEUS SHINY GEODUDE!
*Catches the Geodude like a boss*
He is now a Golem that is one of the many candidates for the 6th spot on my party.
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