Shiny Rarity - Page 3

***Great Sage***** · Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:08:04 PM

Unfortunately, my shinies are of sucky Pokemon, namely a Linoone, a Shuppet, and a Butterfree (which is Modest). I also encountered a shiny Magnemite, which I accidentally killed, and a shiny Tentacool, which I accidentally deleted. For the record, the chance of finding a shiny Pokemon is 1/8192 without the Pokeradar (I got all my shinies without it).

Gregar · Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:30:01 PM

i once had damn luck. i made a hack of sapphire, and put swinub on the first route. the first one i encountered was shiny. a little later the game froze because imessed up de hacking...

B1001 · Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:31:59 PM

Have you tried the Pokeradar?

Paperkite · Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:55:15 PM

The only shiny I ever caught was a Shinx through chaining. It's sucky but I love it nonetheless, and I fed it to be a contest pokemon xD
Back in the Silver days I ran across a shiny Noctowl, but I had no idea how rare a shiny pokemon was, or that they even existed, so I just defeated it. I never regretted it though, because I hate Noctowl =P

Thunderpup · Sep 3rd, 2007, 3:10:57 PM

My little brother, Mr Escalator, has a shiny venonat on GSC.

True story, he also had a shiny regice on RS, but unfortunately we lost the little game cartridge. He didn't even realize it at the time until he was looking at pokemon online.

And I think we have one other really stupid pokemon as a shiny.

Prominence · Sep 3rd, 2007, 3:26:39 PM

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Originally Posted by Fat DarkJester

I realize that shinies are uber-rare on the field, but damn! I have over 188 game hours, have hatched more pokemon than I can count, and fought even more, and still have yet to see a single one! I DO have a Shiny, but it was obtained through the Poke-Radar trick (Electrike).

Back in Ruby/Emerald, I got a total of two (Nidorino and Zubat) with about twice as much game-time, but I simply haven't had any luck in Diamond...

So is this normal? Or am I just totally, extremely, unlucky?

On that note, thank GOD for the Poke-Radar trick!

"Poke-Radar trick"? Do you mean chaining?

Bogmire · Sep 3rd, 2007, 3:30:14 PM

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the chance of finding a shiny 1/8192?

I have a shiny Golbat in Emerald, havn't checked the IVs yet though. I don't care for shinies. And if I ever use them people think they're hacked which is really annoying. Once I found a shiny dunsprace in LG but I didn't have any Poke Balls with me >.>

Gaburaisu · Sep 3rd, 2007, 4:00:07 PM

I haven't caught too many shinies but...

In FireRed, I stumbled across a shiny Fearow on seven island when I was busy training a Gyarados, almost killed it with Dragon Rage. ._.

With about 350+ hours in Diamond, I haven't caught any totally random shinies...yet. I did intentionally soft-reset for about 9 hours to catch a shiny Dialga...with a really crappy nature - Sassy. And I also soft-reset for about an hour in an attempt to catch a shiny Giratina (which I failed to catch because I forgot about Struggle...). So I tried again and about another hour and a half later, I finally run into it again and catch it...another crappy nature - Naive. WTF? I also recently got a shiny Blissey over GTS for a Palkia (that I'd traded for a female Combee about a month ago over GTS). Meh who cares I got another Palkia from GTS with another female Combee as bait lol.

In Pearl, a couple of weeks ago I helped my little bro catch a shiny Palkia. And yesterday he caught a shiny Shinx with only a 3 chain which is why I'm gonna chain something later.

Seph99 · Sep 3rd, 2007, 4:29:01 PM

Ehhh, I have 318 hours of playtime, and haven't seen a single shiny... It's all about luck I guess...

No_Chocolate · Sep 3rd, 2007, 4:32:52 PM

I've done 3 playthroughs with about 30-40 hours on each. No shinies.

Chimpakt · Sep 3rd, 2007, 4:44:28 PM

I have only caught one shiny and that was a Spinda, when I was EV training my Alakazam. Another Shiny I saw was a shiny Venasaur in the Battle Factory, so I got pretty mad. My cousin got a Bold Shiny Metagross with 20+ IVs in everything which he got from Steven's pokeball. I don't understand how people get Shinies with Good IVs and the right nature, and then say that they are not hacked. For example, this guy
http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26631. He has 4 Shines with all the right natures and good IVs. That is a 1:2 Chance for the natures, and even very little chance from the IVs, and then the chance of it being Shiny! I have yet to see a Shiny in my game (without wifi) with about ~250 Hours of gameplay. And only one in 600 hours of gameplay in my emerald.

donutdude09 · Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:09:59 PM

I've played over 2000 hours on my R/S/E and I've only encountered 1 shiny: a Kecleon. And it was in the Battle Tower. Go figure.

SK Ragdoll · Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:21:02 PM

I've had a decent amount of shinies in all gens, but there was just one that particularily blew my mind.

I had just bought Emerald from the local department store and started it up and started to soft reset for a Timid/ Modest Treecko when BAM! On the third Treecko it turned out shiny. It has crap IVs but it's a testament to my luck at the time because when I received a second Emerald cartridge shortly after, I found a shiny Poochyena on my first day of playing followed by a shiny Zubat the day after.

Articanus · Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:47:27 PM

never gotten a shiny
though I did find a wild lendyba(sp?) before i even got pokeballs, right after I got my starter in Silver

Chill Murray · Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:49:51 PM

I had a shiny Gyarados in Gold, Silver, AND Crystal. XD

I also managed to get a shiny Weedle on my LG and shiny Wingull in my Sapphire. Both of those got erased, though, the Leaf Green was my own fault. (Didn't occur to me until after it said I had saved that I had a shiny Beedrill >_>). I also saw a shiny Meowth in the Battle Tower of my LG game.

The only shiny I have on my Diamond is a Shinx I got from a trade. I've had no luck with the chaining trick. I can't chain more than 4 Pokemon in a row. >_>

reaverz · Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:56:02 PM

Ive always had a great deal of luck with shinies. In Gold, I encountered 6 during my playtime. In Ruby, anpther 6 (soft resetted for Groudon and Rayquaza and even hatched a Poliwag).

In Diamond the luck hasnt stopped. I got Shinx just 2 hours into my game and then later encountered a shiny Ditto while chaining for Jolly Ditto using Synchronize (the chain count was only 5!). About a month ago I found an Onyx and Bibarel within a week from each other, and just a few weeks ago I chained for a shiny Pichu and got it after a few days...

I train any shiny I get to be as competitive as possible. If you are chaining any shiny, get an Abra/Kadabra with Synchronize and a nature for the shiny you want, if you want it to be competitive. My shiny Pichu was Synch'd into Timid nature, and its IVs for Spd and Sp.Atk were both about 28. As lucky as possible for a competitive shiny Raichu! I also like "adopting" shinies on the GTS and raising them to be as useful as possible...

shinny · Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:10:18 PM

On 2000+ hours only on 3rd gen I caught a shiny Spinda and a Shiny Gulpin(which both of them got deleted;_;) and saw a shiny torkoal, a shiny slugma and a shiny skarm on the battle factory..>.>

***Jibaku**** · Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:11:41 PM

My luck in shinies are horrible. The first and only shiny I've ever obtained myself is a Shiny Impish Shinx

Pojopembo · Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:18:39 PM

I've been through about 300 Hours on Diamond and have had no luck thus far. Granted, a lot of my time was spent EV training / levelling up, but you'd have thought I'd have seen a shiny Bidoof, Starly or Shinx by now...

...as for the Pokeradar trick, I shall have to try that. Unfortunately, I always get to 5 before something random pops up. Oh well.

Volarion · Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:24:10 PM

With about 300 hours of combined game time for all 3rd and 4th gen pokemon games, I have come accross only one shiny, a starly I happened upon when I just started Diamond. Other than that, all my shinies are from trades and the Pokeradar tricks.

the Lexx · Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:22:10 PM

I found a shiny wild Onix in GSC, but I can't find it in my boxes.

I hatched a shiny Aerodactyl in my Emerald, Jolly nature with Rock Head (which helped me a lot in battle frontier) - the IVs weren't great but they were kind of usable.

The only wild shiny I've caught was Absol in a D/P pokeradar chain - Serious with Pressure, despite using a syncher. Shame too, because it had decent IVs.

Between one of my friends' and his little bro's games, they've caught 3 shinies in less than 150 hours. Whores =[

hbdragon88 · Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:31:33 PM

My only shiny is a Rattata in LG while doing speed training, which is a huge lol because it's hard to negiotate trades since nobody likes Rattata unless for FEAR.

Uskuri · Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:32:35 PM

Only shiny I've personally found is a Golbat in my long hours of Victory-Roading it up before the Elite Four, and on my first foray into the Battle Tower (R/S) the second trainer I fought had a Shiny Espeon and Shiny something-else, which drove me insane.

Pablo · Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:43:40 PM

I have 65 shiny's, 60 from the PokeRadar, 5 without.

ThaPhantom07 · Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:48:22 PM

I got extremely lucky when D/P first came out. I had 2 shinies within 10 hours. I had people over at IGN thinking that shinies had become more common.

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...7/P4220002.jpg

http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...7/P4220001.jpg

I haven't seen any shinies on DP since then and I'm up to 650 hours. I do have 2 other shinies from Sapphire though.

Sep 3rd, 2007, 3:10:57 PM	#55
Thunderpup Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 1,530 confimed. Sending supplies.	My little brother, Mr Escalator, has a shiny venonat on GSC. True story, he also had a shiny regice on RS, but unfortunately we lost the little game cartridge. He didn't even realize it at the time until he was looking at pokemon online. And I think we have one other really stupid pokemon as a shiny. __________________ Team Rocket's Rainbow Kitten Friendship Club Brawl: 5241-1599-1179 DP: 3823 9876 6681 Ness

Sep 3rd, 2007, 4:44:28 PM	#61
Chimpakt Join Date: Oct 2006 Posts: 1,296 Cole World!	I have only caught one shiny and that was a Spinda, when I was EV training my Alakazam. Another Shiny I saw was a shiny Venasaur in the Battle Factory, so I got pretty mad. My cousin got a Bold Shiny Metagross with 20+ IVs in everything which he got from Steven's pokeball. I don't understand how people get Shinies with Good IVs and the right nature, and then say that they are not hacked. For example, this guy http://www.smogon.com/forums/showthread.php?t=26631. He has 4 Shines with all the right natures and good IVs. That is a 1:2 Chance for the natures, and even very little chance from the IVs, and then the chance of it being Shiny! I have yet to see a Shiny in my game (without wifi) with about ~250 Hours of gameplay. And only one in 600 hours of gameplay in my emerald. __________________ My youtube channel [Pokemon Narrations, Let's Plays] VM me for OU/UU rates. wish i could change my username to chimpact :[

Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:49:51 PM	#65
Chill Murray get well soon jacoby... Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 2,449 Take it slow, bro	I had a shiny Gyarados in Gold, Silver, AND Crystal. XD I also managed to get a shiny Weedle on my LG and shiny Wingull in my Sapphire. Both of those got erased, though, the Leaf Green was my own fault. (Didn't occur to me until after it said I had saved that I had a shiny Beedrill >_>). I also saw a shiny Meowth in the Battle Tower of my LG game. The only shiny I have on my Diamond is a Shinx I got from a trade. I've had no luck with the chaining trick. I can't chain more than 4 Pokemon in a row. >_> __________________ too many hands on my time too many feelings too many things on my mind

Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:11:41 PM	#68
*Jibaku [02:06] <DixieNormous> Rodan x pookar: Just Do It Super Moderator** Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 5,910 Foursquare, a sprained ankle, bottlecap ninjas, and wallball	My luck in shinies are horrible. The first and only shiny I've ever obtained myself is a Shiny Impish Shinx __________________

Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:18:39 PM	#69
Pojopembo Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 92 Leeds, UK	I've been through about 300 Hours on Diamond and have had no luck thus far. Granted, a lot of my time was spent EV training / levelling up, but you'd have thought I'd have seen a shiny Bidoof, Starly or Shinx by now... ...as for the Pokeradar trick, I shall have to try that. Unfortunately, I always get to 5 before something random pops up. Oh well. __________________ Name: AJ FC: 4167 1497 0358 Hotmail: Mirage_Knight@hotmail.com http://www.pokecharms.com/trainercar...0696b0dd68.png

Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:08:04 PM	#51
*Great Sage* Administrator** Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 5,872 Boston, MA Mentor	Unfortunately, my shinies are of sucky Pokemon, namely a Linoone, a Shuppet, and a Butterfree (which is Modest). I also encountered a shiny Magnemite, which I accidentally killed, and a shiny Tentacool, which I accidentally deleted. For the record, the chance of finding a shiny Pokemon is 1/8192 without the Pokeradar (I got all my shinies without it).

Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:30:01 PM	#52
Gregar Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 115 Netherlands	i once had damn luck. i made a hack of sapphire, and put swinub on the first route. the first one i encountered was shiny. a little later the game froze because imessed up de hacking...

Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:31:59 PM	#53
B1001 Join Date: Sep 2007 Posts: 27	Have you tried the Pokeradar?

Sep 3rd, 2007, 2:55:15 PM	#54
Paperkite Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 6 Tilburg, the Netherlands	The only shiny I ever caught was a Shinx through chaining. It's sucky but I love it nonetheless, and I fed it to be a contest pokemon xD Back in the Silver days I ran across a shiny Noctowl, but I had no idea how rare a shiny pokemon was, or that they even existed, so I just defeated it. I never regretted it though, because I hate Noctowl =P

Sep 3rd, 2007, 3:30:14 PM	#57
Bogmire Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 1,084	Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the chance of finding a shiny 1/8192? I have a shiny Golbat in Emerald, havn't checked the IVs yet though. I don't care for shinies. And if I ever use them people think they're hacked which is really annoying. Once I found a shiny dunsprace in LG but I didn't have any Poke Balls with me >.>

Sep 3rd, 2007, 4:00:07 PM	#58
Gaburaisu Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 351	I haven't caught too many shinies but... In FireRed, I stumbled across a shiny Fearow on seven island when I was busy training a Gyarados, almost killed it with Dragon Rage. ._. With about 350+ hours in Diamond, I haven't caught any totally random shinies...yet. I did intentionally soft-reset for about 9 hours to catch a shiny Dialga...with a really crappy nature - Sassy. And I also soft-reset for about an hour in an attempt to catch a shiny Giratina (which I failed to catch because I forgot about Struggle...). So I tried again and about another hour and a half later, I finally run into it again and catch it...another crappy nature - Naive. WTF? I also recently got a shiny Blissey over GTS for a Palkia (that I'd traded for a female Combee about a month ago over GTS). Meh who cares I got another Palkia from GTS with another female Combee as bait lol. In Pearl, a couple of weeks ago I helped my little bro catch a shiny Palkia. And yesterday he caught a shiny Shinx with only a 3 chain which is why I'm gonna chain something later.

Sep 3rd, 2007, 4:29:01 PM	#59
Seph99 Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 2 England	Ehhh, I have 318 hours of playtime, and haven't seen a single shiny... It's all about luck I guess...

Sep 3rd, 2007, 4:32:52 PM	#60
No_Chocolate Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 83	I've done 3 playthroughs with about 30-40 hours on each. No shinies.

Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:09:59 PM	#62
donutdude09 Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 40	I've played over 2000 hours on my R/S/E and I've only encountered 1 shiny: a Kecleon. And it was in the Battle Tower. Go figure.

Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:21:02 PM	#63
SK Ragdoll Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 8	I've had a decent amount of shinies in all gens, but there was just one that particularily blew my mind. I had just bought Emerald from the local department store and started it up and started to soft reset for a Timid/ Modest Treecko when BAM! On the third Treecko it turned out shiny. It has crap IVs but it's a testament to my luck at the time because when I received a second Emerald cartridge shortly after, I found a shiny Poochyena on my first day of playing followed by a shiny Zubat the day after.

Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:47:27 PM	#64
Articanus Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 1,002	never gotten a shiny though I did find a wild lendyba(sp?) before i even got pokeballs, right after I got my starter in Silver

Sep 3rd, 2007, 5:56:02 PM	#66
reaverz Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 300	Ive always had a great deal of luck with shinies. In Gold, I encountered 6 during my playtime. In Ruby, anpther 6 (soft resetted for Groudon and Rayquaza and even hatched a Poliwag). In Diamond the luck hasnt stopped. I got Shinx just 2 hours into my game and then later encountered a shiny Ditto while chaining for Jolly Ditto using Synchronize (the chain count was only 5!). About a month ago I found an Onyx and Bibarel within a week from each other, and just a few weeks ago I chained for a shiny Pichu and got it after a few days... I train any shiny I get to be as competitive as possible. If you are chaining any shiny, get an Abra/Kadabra with Synchronize and a nature for the shiny you want, if you want it to be competitive. My shiny Pichu was Synch'd into Timid nature, and its IVs for Spd and Sp.Atk were both about 28. As lucky as possible for a competitive shiny Raichu! I also like "adopting" shinies on the GTS and raising them to be as useful as possible...

Sep 3rd, 2007, 6:24:10 PM	#70
Volarion Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 138 In the center of the sun, nice and toasty.	With about 300 hours of combined game time for all 3rd and 4th gen pokemon games, I have come accross only one shiny, a starly I happened upon when I just started Diamond. Other than that, all my shinies are from trades and the Pokeradar tricks. __________________ Charles Dickens on pelicans: "The sleek roundature of the fishing scoop, in leanest terms of aviation, was ever hindrous. The poor suffer too much. The white flash in the reflection of the water, it, of course, being enough in body for several men to, providing for antiquity and energy, would, perhaps, in all accounts of the heavens, be mayhap sufficient, insofar as the primal body met the sky, would not be."

Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:22:10 PM	#71
the Lexx Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 2,506 New Jersey	I found a shiny wild Onix in GSC, but I can't find it in my boxes. I hatched a shiny Aerodactyl in my Emerald, Jolly nature with Rock Head (which helped me a lot in battle frontier) - the IVs weren't great but they were kind of usable. The only wild shiny I've caught was Absol in a D/P pokeradar chain - Serious with Pressure, despite using a syncher. Shame too, because it had decent IVs. Between one of my friends' and his little bro's games, they've caught 3 shinies in less than 150 hours. Whores =[

Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:31:33 PM	#72
hbdragon88 Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 423	My only shiny is a Rattata in LG while doing speed training, which is a huge lol because it's hard to negiotate trades since nobody likes Rattata unless for FEAR. __________________ Affiliations: D/P Battle Tower and Emerald Battle Frontier FC: Diamond 3266 7471 2175 Currently doing: Gold symbol in the Battle Pike. So far: 136 championships and back to square one. RMT: What will it take for a gold symbol in the Pike?

Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:32:35 PM	#73
Uskuri Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 74 United States	Only shiny I've personally found is a Golbat in my long hours of Victory-Roading it up before the Elite Four, and on my first foray into the Battle Tower (R/S) the second trainer I fought had a Shiny Espeon and Shiny something-else, which drove me insane.

Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:43:40 PM	#74
Pablo Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 4,006 The Art of Lorak's Oasis	I have 65 shiny's, 60 from the PokeRadar, 5 without.

Sep 3rd, 2007, 7:48:22 PM	#75
ThaPhantom07 Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 125 Las Vegas, NV	I got extremely lucky when D/P first came out. I had 2 shinies within 10 hours. I had people over at IGN thinking that shinies had become more common. http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...7/P4220002.jpg http://i105.photobucket.com/albums/m...7/P4220001.jpg I haven't seen any shinies on DP since then and I'm up to 650 hours. I do have 2 other shinies from Sapphire though.