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Mrsoupcup

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I got a Shiny Zubbat. I was like "ZOMG YES" because that means I could raise it to a Crowbat. Wouldn't have been able to do that if it had been a Golbat. Also I got a Shiny Charmander by chance while raising an Egg from my buddy.
 

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A few weeks back I found a shiny Poliwhirl in my copy of Black. You can bet I caught that sucker.

I remember I caught a shiny Golbat (now Crobat) in either Platinum or Heart Gold. I don't ever seem to find more than one wild, shiny Pokemon in any of my games. But then I guess that's part of the charm.
 

brunothepig

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Yeah, a few I think. I only remember one. It was a fucking Swinub. Seriously. That was my shiny pokemon. I'd feel really sorry for anyone who caught a shiny Magikarp though...
 

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brunothepig said:
Yeah, a few I think. I only remember one. It was a fucking Swinub. Seriously. That was my shiny pokemon. I'd feel really sorry for anyone who caught a shiny Magikarp though...
Dude, evolve that shit into a Mamoswine and you'll have a bitchin' green elephant-pig!
 

MGlBlaze

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Never found any other than the Red Gyarados you have to encounter anyway in G/S/C/HG/SS. I have terrible luck with shinys.

...Well, there was ONE wild shiny I encountered back in G/S/C. I forget which game it was, specifically... only problem is...
brunothepig said:
I'd feel really sorry for anyone who caught a shiny Magikarp though...
...Yeah. Shiny Magikarp in the Dragon's Den.
 

Merkavar

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what does a shiney pokemon even mean? im guessing they are rare but are they more powerful?

like would a shiney ratatata beat a non shiney ratatata
 

brunothepig

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captaincabbage said:
brunothepig said:
Yeah, a few I think. I only remember one. It was a fucking Swinub. Seriously. That was my shiny pokemon. I'd feel really sorry for anyone who caught a shiny Magikarp though...
Dude, evolve that shit into a Mamoswine and you'll have a bitchin' green elephant-pig!
Haha. If only... Even though I would never have used it in my party. But that was on my old Pokemon Gold cartridge, and I have no idea where that is now...
MGlBlaze said:
Never found any other than the Red Gyarados you have to encounter anyway in G/S/C/HG/SS. I have terrible luck with shinys.

...Well, there was ONE wild shiny I encountered back in G/S/C. I forget which game it was, specifically... only problem is...
brunothepig said:
I'd feel really sorry for anyone who caught a shiny Magikarp though...
...Yeah. Shiny Magikarp in the Dragon's Den.
Ooooh, I'm so so sorry. Although, did it still evolve into a red Gyrados? Or did you just ignore it?
I wasn't notified that you quoted me... How odd.
 

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brunothepig said:
MGlBlaze said:
Never found any other than the Red Gyarados you have to encounter anyway in G/S/C/HG/SS. I have terrible luck with shinys.

...Well, there was ONE wild shiny I encountered back in G/S/C. I forget which game it was, specifically... only problem is...
brunothepig said:
I'd feel really sorry for anyone who caught a shiny Magikarp though...
...Yeah. Shiny Magikarp in the Dragon's Den.
Ooooh, I'm so so sorry. Although, did it still evolve into a red Gyrados? Or did you just ignore it?
I wasn't notified that you quoted me... How odd.
I can't remember if I ignored it or I tried to catch it, but either way I didn't get it.

Also, I added the quote in an edit, so that would be why you weren't notified.
 

xWestie

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I've encountered about 3 shinys.

The first one was a shiny Magnemite. But I wasn't aware of shiny pokemon then and I'd missed the sparkle animation. I went back to the game, looked at it and just though "Huh.. why is it coloured wierd?" then ran. Stupid, stupid me >>;

The 2nd one was on Gold. I'd healed my pokemon and found I had pokerus. Then 5 mins later whilst leveling up Togepi, I found a shiny spinarak, which I caught this time x3

And the last one, on HG, was a gold Caterpie. I accidently caught the 'run' button and nearly kicked myself. (I thought in the old games shiny pokemon couldnt be fled from ><)
 

Sun Flash

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Never. Sucks, man. I didn't even know you could get shinies that aren't Gyarados until I discovered Bulbapedia in 2008. AND I've been playing sicne the beginning and put about 150 hours into each of the 9 games I've owned.

As a side note, apparantly there is a bug in the games (to do with catch rates or something) that means the Master Ball could fail on a pokémon, Although the chace of that happening is something like 6000 times more unlikely than finding a shiny.

I guarantee my master ball will fail before I get a discoloured poké.
 

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Merkavar said:
what does a shiney pokemon even mean? im guessing they are rare but are they more powerful?

like would a shiney ratatata beat a non shiney ratatata
Nah, it's just bragging rights. No difference other than its shininess.

Although I'm sure Joey would have something to say about it if they were.
 

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escapistrules said:
xdom125x said:
Have you ever encountered a shiny pokemon? Which one? Did you catch it?


The reason I started this thread is because I ran into a shiny gastly a few minutes ago(in the Safari Zone of HG) and it got away(how sad). It was the first non-story related shiny pokemon I ran into.
weird, my first and only shiny encounter was with a gastly. only i did manage to catch it. but i was pissed because when i tried to evolve it, the haunter didnt become shiny. so i restarted my last save and just kept it as a gastly.
I am pretty sure that when a shiny pokemon evolves that the pokemon it evolves into is automatically shiny. With haunter, I think the major difference is the color of the inside of it's mouth being blue instead of red.

Sun Flash said:
Merkavar said:
what does a shiney pokemon even mean? im guessing they are rare but are they more powerful?

like would a shiney ratatata beat a non shiney ratatata
Nah, it's just bragging rights. No difference other than its shininess.

Although I'm sure Joey would have something to say about it if they were.
Is Joey the one with the rattata in the TOP FREAKING PERCENTAGE!!?
 

joe90

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I once found a bright gold shiny graveler on pokemon pearl, which exploded before i could sleep powder it...
It was shiny and gold :(
 

Grabbin Keelz

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I have never legitimately found a shiny before, and I've played every game up until now. I finally got fed up with it and hacked myself a level 3 shiny onix which turned into a solid gold Steelix with diamond studded teeth and ruby encrusted eyes.
 

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xdom125x said:
Have you ever encountered a shiny pokemon? Which one? Did you catch it?


The reason I started this thread is because I ran into a shiny gastly a few minutes ago(in the Safari Zone of HG) and it got away(how sad). It was the first non-story related shiny pokemon I ran into.

edit: I also ran into a shiny Chancey about 3 hours later. Once again in the Safari Zone and once again it got away.
That is some serious good luck (About finding two within 3 hours, seriously, there's like a 8 in 64,000 of finding one...) and VERY serious bad luck (About them getting away)
Personally I have several shiny Pokemon on my Pokemon Platinum version, although I chained to find all of them. I have 4 Shiny Kirlias, A shiny Gallade and Gardeviour, 2 shiny Staravias, a Shiny Cleffa and a Shiny Roserade.
My worst Shiny fail was I found a shiny Azelf (I know, right?) And accidentally killed it with confusion damage. I was mega-sad. After learning how to chain, I managed to get 6 shiny Kirlias in one chain. Which was awesome. The chain was only about 54, too :p
 

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Some shinies are cool, some are just lazy and/or poor color design.

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This one here, is awesome.

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This one here, despite being one of my favorite pokemans, is just lame.