My first shiny!

I've played pokemon for years, at least every gen.
Just unlucky maybe, but I've never gotten a real wild shiny. (poketracer helped in pearl, but still it's not the same as a real 1/8192 chance)
I never actively seek them out.

I read gen 6+ the rate was doubled, even so, I didn't find any in xy and it took me 60 hours in sun until this.

I just found this one from finishing, I usually only get magikarp! So I'm very happy with this one! Better than a shiny rattata or something. I was saving my masterball for something like this, I'm not taking any chances.

20180909_121616.jpg
  • Like
Reactions: 9 people

Comments

I've played every gen as well and still no shiny :( congrats tough getting a shiny workout using the hunting methods is rare indeed
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people
damn a shiny dratiny!! you got a good one!
i mean, you could had get a shiny magikarp which would give you the red gyarados which can just be transfered from a HGSS. but a shiny dratiny, good

i believe i found 2-3 wild shinies when i was a kid, but never caught one because either i skipped and only noticed after i ran away from the battle, or it was my friend who was playing and the bad friend shoved it off and didn't let me catch it
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
Congrats! You should try the Masuda Method too. It's way easier. Wild hunting it's nearly impossible, because it gets pretty much impossible after the first 5 shiny encounters or so. When i got my first shiny, i was super pumped to get more! I went wild hunting for 2 hours straight... Nothing. I don't know if i was unlucky, but i still blame the game for it :P I always try to get my favorite shinies (shiny zorua and zoroark <3) first, so it's a great idea to try it too!
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
Thanks, yeah I know about the masuda method, I read about shiny chaining etc, I'm just not actively seeking shinies out.
Years and years ago I remember RNGing emerald to get a shiny wobbuffet, but that was about it.
I don't play pokemon competitively, I don't breed etc, I just play the game and try to catch most of them/the ones I think are cool.
I'm a casual :D
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
Amazing! Train it into a powerful Dragonite someday! The only legit shinies I've ever heard of was when my friend found a Shiny Voltorb in DPP.

Shiny Weedle is still better though...
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
The first shiny i ever encountered was in diamond and it ended up using self-destruct, so yea didnt get that one. I dont go actively shiny hunting either but i do get a few from time to time. I recently got a shiny volturb in my playthrough of alpha sapphire. Congrats on the shiny, can't say im a fan of shiny dragonite but purple dragonair is pretty sick
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
Nice one. My first shiny was an Azelf in Pearl, I got lucky with that I guess since it's incredibly rare to find shiny legendaries. But it's too bad it's not a Pokemon I would actually use, so it was just stored in a PC box.
I've only gotten a couple since then (unless you count Pokemon Go), one was done by chaining fishing in X/Y and the other by abusing the Shiny Value thing in hatched eggs back when you could read the Shiny Value with a PC program by showing the Pokemon/egg in an online trade. So those don't really count since it's waaaay easier than getting a shiny normally.
 
  • Like
Reactions: 1 person
Nice one. I remember back when I was playing Pokemon Platinum. I was still playing through the story and I was at Stark Mountain. I found either a Coffing or a Weezing (I can't remember), but it was shiny. At the time I didn't know it was called a shiny, but I knew it was rare because it was a different color and it sparkled. I tried to catch it... but it used explosion and killed itself....
 
  • Like
Reactions: 3 people
Ah, I remember back in the day when I played emerald for the first time and I got A shiny Treecko
 
  • Like
Reactions: 2 people

Blog entry information

Author
cearp
Views
231
Comments
26
Last update

More entries in Personal Blogs

More entries from cearp

General chit-chat
Help Users
  • No one is chatting at the moment.
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    why
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    @K3Nv2, it's not funny
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    ok
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    Wut?
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    That's not funny
    +2
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    So two cannibals where eating a clown and one says to the other. Hey does this taste funny to you?
    +2
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    What do you call a slow car? Retired
    +1
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Did you hear about the police car that someone stole the wheels off of? The police are working tirelessly to find the thieves.
    +2
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    A firefighter got arrested for assault his main claim was what I was told he was on fire
    +2
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    What do you call a hooker with a runny nose? Full
    +2
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    What do you tell a woman with two black eyes? Nothing you already told her twice!
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    Diddy also works
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    A scientist heard the word batman so he put a naked lady in a cage with a bat
  • Psionic Roshambo @ Psionic Roshambo:
    Chuck Norris won a staring contest, with the sun.
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    A vampires favorite thing to do is moon you
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    What's the difference between an airplane, and Ken's mom? Not everyone has been in an airplane.
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    What's the difference between @BigOnYa and his wife? Nothing both want to bone me
    +3
  • RedColoredStars @ RedColoredStars:
    How much wood could a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could chuck norris
    +1
  • BakerMan @ BakerMan:
    how do i know? you're a guy, and he wants to bone every guy on this site (maybe, idk)
    +1
  • K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2:
    He wants to bone anything with a dick
    +1
  • Xdqwerty @ Xdqwerty:
    Good night
    +1
  • BigOnYa @ BigOnYa:
    Nighty night, big day tomorrow. Congrats.
    K3Nv2 @ K3Nv2: https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7iLZ35NrQt/?igsh=MWd2Z3U0dmNlMmNxcw==