The only shiny I've ever gotten was a shiny duskull, which is now a dusclops.

Got an impish shiny male Ralts through breeding just last week- I've been trying for a shiny for a VERY long time. It's level 41 now and I'm planning to have it lead my team.

I've never once even seen a legit shiny, much less caught it, in the 1000+ hours I've sunk into the series.

Granted a good chunk of that was in gen1 when there were no shinies, and I've never actually tried to find them with chaining or whatnot, but still...

>>3681
Just what is chaining? I guess I'm not up to date on the lingo...

>>3682
It's another term for using the pokeradar, basically. In D/P/Pt, there's a key item called the pokeradar, which only usable in the tall grass that allows you to see up to four moving patches of grass at a time. The main feature of the pokeradar is a higher rate of encounter for the same pokemon repeatedly, or even a chance to find pokemon not available until after the national 'dex, Ditto for instance. There are three different animation types which give a hint as to what the rarity of the pokemon is. The third one is also quite rare, but indicates that there is a guaranteed shiny pokemon inside.

The pokeradar basically gives you a free guaranteed battle, and after it, up to four MORE patches shake. This continues until the chain breaks. This can be done by flying away, leaving the area, running into a RANDOM battle, (Which is why repels are needed for higher chains,) or running into a pokeradar patch with a different pokemon in it, or even at random for no apparent reason.

When people refer to chaining, they're either talking about using the pokeradar for certain pokemon over and over, or they're talking about trying to get shiny pokemon through chaining. The ideal chain is forty, which is where the math gives a 1/200 shiny encounter rate, where as the regular rate is 1/8192 I think. You simply reset the radar over and over until a shiny patch appears.

There are a couple of specific methods for it, but most can be learned elsewhere, by people more capable of explaining than I am. I hope I have helped somewhat.

lets see now
hmm i have gotten 2 shiny ratatata in pokemon silver and i have gotten a shiny giratina in pokemon platinum oh yeah also when i was testing if my character sprites worked in pokemon ruby i found a shiny poochyena but....
i didn't get the pokedex or pokeballs yet :(

>>3680
I found him completely on accident, hunting for a nosepass on emerald.

>>3690
That's awesome. I actually have diamond, but I never play it because it takes too much grinding for my taste. I might get farther and try this sometime though...

I just got a random Shiny Onix. I was EV training and poof, it appeared and I didn't even expect that.

Literally thousands of hours, never seen a shiny.

My pokemon in Platinum have pokerus. I've yet to see a shiny.

>>3681
Hahaha.

Not even a day after posting that I ran into a shiny Shellos while completing the Sinnoh dex. I almost missed it too, since I was watching a movie at the time and it's so similar to the regular one. I would have never noticed if I hadn't caught the last few frames of the sparkle animation.

Too bad it's useless, even for a Gastrodon. Crappier of his abilities, horrendous IVs and one of the worst natures possible.

I stopped playing with any regularity after gold/silver, and never saw a shiny in that time.

Hell, I only know one person who's even seen a shiny, and that was just a rattata. He also one hit killed it as soon as the fight began, not realizing what it was.

In G/S/C (I can't remember which one) I found a shiny oddish in the first forest when I was running around after beating the elite four. It broke out of the 2 ultra balls i had left so I went back to town to get more but never found it again.

My only shiny was a Caterpie in Gold.
It died along with my battery. (The save battery, not the Game Boy's battery.)

only shiny i've ever faced was a shiny zubat in diamond.

I traded it for some other shiny..i dont even remember now. It was a mistake ;_;

I WISH I HAD THAT ZUBAT.

Favorite shiny = Loppuny. He's my baby.
The only legit one I ever caught was a sunkern in GSC. I didn't even know it was shiny - I just caught the first one I saw.

I have traded for a few shinys (P-z, Raikou, Rayquaza, Torchic, and Ralts.) Of those, Raikou is hacked (modest, Flawless IVs, and HP Ice 70) and the Pz and Rayquaza are useable. A few days ago, i caught my first shiny however; A graveller. Fuck yeah. Who cares if its IVs are bad and its docile.

Its a shiny, and its mine.

>>4185
>Flawless IV's
>HP Ice
Wut? No hack can make that happen, sorry to burst your bubble; The only HP you'll get from a flawess IV spread is Dark 70.

>>4186

I meant as flawless as can be with HP Ice
31/30/30/31/31/31 i think that is

I ran into a shiny Starly while EV training once.

I had no pokeballs.

I killed it with Fire Blast, and never met a shiny again.

First battle in Diamond, came across a shiny Lynx. Caught it and used it throughout the entire game. It's my best friend.

>>4245
Fuck me I meant Shinx. No idea why I thought to spell it Lynx. ;___;

I had a shiny rattata in gold. I caught it lurking the burned tower.

I was going to catch a male shinx, near Sangem I think in Pearl, and I found one. Caught it, then took a step and ran into a shiny female Shinx. I died happily.
Then I was going to fight Palkia at the mountain, and ran into a shiny Clefairy the same day. It was awesome.

i found a shiny Hoothoot lurking the bug catching area in Gold late one night. It was awesome. It was on the car ride home from my grandparents house and i almost screamed. which would have been bad. SO. I very, very carefully lowered its health to about 1/4 and just swarmed it with pokeballs. I had to use 5 or 6 before I finally caught that bitch. I was ecstatic and stared at it in the party screen for 15 or 20 seconds. then we hit a bump in the road. and my finger slipped. and i turned off the power.

The End

>>4267
FFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUU-

>>4267
OH MY GOD ALMOST THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME
I was riding in the car on the way back from my grandma's house, strolling through Route 29 so I could surf across to Kanto, then suddenly a shiny Hoothoot attacked. I already had one or two shinys at the time, so I knew what it was, but unfortunately for me I had no pokeballs left on me. And I thought it would be soo cool to have Ash's Noctowl...

The only shiny I ever found in the wild was, I kid you not, a fucking gold Magikarp.

Of every Pokémon I could find, it was a gold Magikarp.

I don't want a shiny Magikarp. It just turns into a Red Gyarados, which anyone who has played G/S/C has obtained in the past as part of the script.

This still angers me. I feel as if it was mocking me.

But, I caught it anyway.

I have played every main game, every generation. No legit shinies, but pokerus once.. My sister hatched a shiny Togepi, I was so jealous.

>>4242
;__;

A legit shiny Zubat. I already had a EV trained Crobat though. I eventually gave up trying to chain a shiny Dunsparce, restarted my platinum save file, and pokesav'd a Shinesparce as my starter. I beat a single gym and it just felt so wrong, I changed it to a regular Dunsparce.

On Christmas day, the recent one, I found a shiny Marowak in Victory Road while training for the E4. I was lucky to have someone with sleep powder and about thirty ultra balls, although I got her on the first throw. Only legit shiny I've ever seen, not including the Red Gyarados of course. It was 42, so it already missed out on a lot of training and doesn't have great stats or anything, but I still use it. With a Thick Club, that thing's a beast.

Question about shinies: For any of the kind that sit there in the open like Lapras, Snorlax, the legendaries; is their non-shinyness set in stone from the start of the game, or does it reset everything you battle them? For example, could someone save by Mewtwo and battle him, reset the gameboy, and repeat or would it always be what it is? I'm only asking in case I run into one like that and it IS shiny so I know whether or not I have to worry about catching it THAT TIME.

>>4455
I've heard things both ways: works, and doesn't work.
But this thread is convincing:
http://bmgf.bulbagarden.net/showthread.php?t=36233
People say they've soft resetted for event pokes - I call Snorlax/Palkia/etc event pokemon.

>>4454
Whoah awesome - congratulations!

>>4455
Shininess is determined when its stats are generated, which is when it is first encountered in battle. For roaming legends, this means when you first see them, for everything else it's when you enter battle.

To answer your question directly: yes, you only get one shot at it. If you reset, chances are the RNG will come up with a different PID/IV combo which will mean it's not shiny anymore.

What I'm more curious about however is in HGSS: if the overworld sprites now have shiny forms, does that mean that stationary legends will have their PID/IV determined beforehand to know which overworld sprite to use? If so, when is this done, and does it kill soft-resetting for stats and shinies?

I've captured 4 shinys myself. A Dustox, Bellossom, Raticate and Noctowl in that order, and each on a difforent GBA/DS game. I've also got a whole ton of other shinys, but I got them by cheating divices.

>>4457
people who say it doesn't work are impatient niggers. I had a friend who soft reset for all three shiny legendary golems.

>>4939
that...seems very unlikely.
1/8192 probability of encountering a single shiny. and thats per pokemon. unless it took em a year, I dont believe you.

>>4940
Did you click the link in the Marowak post?

I caught a shiny swinub in Crystal. It looked like a blue watermelon from the back and I loved it so much even though I hated swinub. I caught it while in the grocery store with my mom in the produce section and I screamed and she yelled at me but it's fine because I caught it <3

Then I reset my game.

Now I have a shiny Alakazam named Sparklez that I kinda brag about. But what I want most is a shiny Luxray.

ive seen 3 shinies throughout the years, and all of them were in the safari zone and all of them ran away after one turn

Got a shiny Loudred in Sapphire, and a Shuppet in Emerald. Wish I had a shiny Metagross though.

I haven't encountered a single shiny since the day I caught a Shiny Rattata at Route 22, who then evolved into Shiny Raticate, and caught a Shiny Venonat at either Route 15 or Safari Zone in 2005/2006.

>>4970
And that was on LeafGreen

JUST ACQUIRED
Even though this should be in /DEX/, this is apparently the thread for such.

Only Shiny I ever got was a shiny Garydos JK I found a shiny Geodude though.

>>5016
Hell yeah! o/\o

i have shit luck with shinies
first one i saw was a shiny fucking ursaring in gold but back then i thought it was some kinda glitch to i killed that mother fucker dead.
and the second time was in ruby where i saw a shiny makuhita but i forgot that they knew whirlwind :(

My only legit shiny (not an event or hacked) is a shiny zigzagoon I found in ruby when walking around one day. Damn near shit myself. He's sitting in my platinum game to this day. Sadly his IVs and nature suck but still.

My first legit shiny:

The back-story is this: When I had Silver I cheated on it a lot using Gameshark and BrainBoy. Never anythign substantial like 'instant win, level 99 pokes, etc', usually just for collecting the ones i didn't have so i didn't have to trade.

Anyway, I started fresh for kicks and giggles to start with every base stage pokemon, either on Silver or Crystal (I don't recall which.) After putzing around in Route 29 using the GS to catch all base stage pokemon, with them being shiny, I started my adventure. Before I stepped in Cherrygrove I saved, shut GBC (it was teal) off, and returned to my save. I stepped into Cherrygrove. Follow old man, get map card, blah blah blah, and left north. I stepped into the grass and there it was. An ever-loving-mother-fucking shiny pidgey...

...But this couldn't be right!
I saved and took the GS out! How is there a shiny pokemon there? Must have fucked something up somewhere. Soft Reset. New Game. Save.

YEARS later, I realize what a tard I was as a teen. And that is my story of my first legit shiny.

...Those accursed Shiny Pidgeys...

Pic unrelated, it's math.

Found a shiny Oddish when breeding in Sapphire, accidentally went into the grass below and found it, cool. It's still in my Diamond PC box, I think.

My brother found a Shiny Paras on his Fire Red while playing on the Game Boy Player in my room.....in the safari zone. Threw a Poke Ball and caught that bitch though. Also in my Diamond's PC box.

And a couple years ago I found a shiny Zubat in Sapphire, but traded it for a normal Chikorita because I didn't really care about the Zubat line.

My first was a shiny Pidgey encountered in Platinum in the Safari Zone and my second was the shiny Beldum that I hatched. Other than that, my other shinies were traded to me. A few of those are possibly (hopefully not) illegitimate. I'm not known for being informed on the legitimacy of all of my shinies so hell if I know.. :(

I chained for a Shiny Mareep to see what's the big deal on chaining. I didn't like it, had no patience, so I just left.

And when I was EV training, I encountered an Onix and asked myself "Why is that Onix piss-colored? HOLY SHIT! It's a shiny Onix!" and caught it instantly.

My luck is all the same with these, I'll find none for years then find 2 at once. Happened with hats in TF2, it'll happen with shinies.

I just know it.

>>5528
>TF2 hats
Lol Rossco
/me lolface
Remember how you had like 300+ hours and I had like 5 and I got a hat and you didn't

>>5528
>Two at once
In the battle Tower.

You've been jinxed.

>>5534
OH MY GOD
I just realized something that would suck.
What if while you were with a partner in D/P/Pt you came across two shinys but you couldn't catch them because of that whole partner thing.

>>5537
Easier to deal with. Kill off your partner, choose which shiny you want and kill the other. Then retell the story of getting two shinies at once because the odds are astounding.

>>4454
Shiny Marowak Pokéfag here. SS training in Victory Road again. ... Caught a shiny Rhyhorn. <3

>>5537

Exact same thing happened to my friend as he was teamed up with Buck. He didn't realize he could kill his Claydol, so Buck ended up taking out the shiny Magcargo. He'll be pissed for the rest of his life.

>>5663
Shiny Marowak Pokéfag here, again. I found a shiny Charmander on the LeafGreen I'm borrowing from my girlfriend who is borrowing from her best friend. My girlfriend doesn't have any way to hack so neither of us know how it got there, but FUCK YEAH [Seaking] BLACK CHARIZARD

>>6102
Why don't you just make your name Shiny Marowak? It's seems pretty fitting as a name.

>>6112
Hrm. Probably because I already have a name... and I finally don't feel like being anonymous anymore.

>>6115
Ah I see, you just forgot to put it in that post then?

>>6127
Mmhm.

First and only shiny I've ever found/caught was a shiny zigzagoon. I had just restarted my Sapphire version, and randomly ran into a shiny in the patch of grass behind the Pretty Petal Shop. (Is that the name of it?)

Finally EV trained my shiny Charmander. Now he's all black. Named his Sev Rege. 8] [Sev means black in some language, Rege means King in a different language]

Just beat Red. Soft-resetting for a Shiny Squirtle at Oak's lab. Has anyone here tried this yet?

First ever shiny was a Pidgey in FireRed.
First shiny on plat was in the Safari Zone. Bibarel....

Oh well, I RNG abuse all of mine now

>>6453
...RNG?

>>6473
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyQnFr1_60U

A shiny green Zubat on Firered that I evolved to a pink Crobat, a shiny green spotted Spinda in Emerald, and a shiny green Golbat in Ruby.
All their natures and IVs suck beyond belief =p

I caught a shiny Rosalia in the safari zone on my Pearl. I traded it on the MTS later on for a legendary.

my first legit shiny was a spearow i found in the grass area east of Curelean city in my fire red while i was training up my squirtle to beat misty. its now a fearow and i dont plan on migrating it because it looks gay in d p pt hg and ss

I have never seen a shiny in any of my pokemon games before TT_TT I have played red, yellow, fire red, ruby, sapphire, pearl, and heartgold all the way through, and I have never seen a single one. Haha, but I do have a funny story. One of my friends encountered a shiny graveler, and the first thing it did... was selfdestruct... Bahahaha! XD

I recently found a Shiny Gentle Golbat(M) last month.

Otherwise, my first shiny was a Brave Finneon(F) in Pearl.

From then till now, I've found a Timid Geodude(M), a Jolly Onix(M), a Gloom(M, pissed about this a lot), can't remember its nature, a Bidoof, same as the Gloom(F), a Brave Staravia(F), a Quirky West Shellos(M) and a Careful East Shellos(F).

I'm trying to chain Budew in Pearl, but fucking Misdreavus kept interrupting.

The only two shinies I have are a level 30 Gyarados in SoulSilver (Red Gyarados) and a female shiny Blaziken in Platinum.

Let's see... In all my time playing I've naturally encountered 4 shiny pokes and caught 3 of said pokes. First encounter was a Tangela back in Gen 2 on gold. Second encounter wasn't until my second play through pearl, a shiny Shinx. Third encounter was in Heart Gold, first wild pokemon that attacked after surfing in Vermilion Harbor right after exiting the SS Aqua. The fourth encounter happened after I started up a game on Emerald, while grinding a Poochyena I ran into a shiny Wurmple. So far that's been all.

>>2124
Me again.

The Gloom is Calm and the Bidoof is Impish.

Hard resetted a ton before borrowing a friend's DS to soft reset and finally got a shiny Squirtle from Oak in SoulSilver. Him and my black Charizard will be bff.

Through Gen 2 and 3 I had shit luck with shinies.

...And then I got Diamond. Went to choose my starter and got a shiny Piplup. Diamond ended up being my Shiny Luck Charm.

I encountered a few wild shinies like a Pachirisu (caught it), a Tentacool (caught it), Bidoof (didn't catch because I didn't realize it was a Shiny until it was too late), and an Onix (didn't catch because I was with a partner).

But my favorite shiny was one I bred for: a Shiny Riolu with a badass moveset from Blaziken-daddy and badass stats given his nature from Lucario-mommy. He's now one badass Shiny Lucario.

I forgot to mention, Pidgey was the first shiny I ever caught, but the first shiny I ever /encountered/ was Shinysparce on G/S. I wish I had captured it, the sorrow haunts me to this day despite me having done all I could. It was in Dark Cave or whatever by Violet, first Pokemon I found in the cave, and I had approximately 3 Pokeballs, perhaps less. It goes unsaid that I could only get it to yellow HP without killing it, and I was severely unprepared in the first place. He put up a fight worthy of Arceus' spectation, and poured his heart into ever fiber of his being. I can still hear it's final exhausted cry as I finally had it Tackled to what we can only pray is a better place... I thought I had caught a glimpse of an accepting smile playing across its battered and worn features, just before his eyes shut and his sprite dispersed and fell into utter nothingness. There would be no evidence that this illustrious God among Zubats and Geodudes had ever earned the privaledge of existence, other than a mere retelling and embedded recollection of the key things that transcended between him and I.

Found a shiny Graveler(M)and got it with an ultra ball in SoulSilver

It's Hasty and has Sturdy, Pissed as fuck.

the first shiny i ran into was a graveler and he used self destruct which royally pissed me off, then in the same playthrough i ran into a shiny voltorb on the team rockect hide out and then that used selfdestruct so i don't think the game will ever let me have a shiny besides garados

On November 27 2009, I was training on Isshu Route 12 with a new friend I caught recently, a timid Zuruggu. Our training will surely count extra this autumn afternoon, with a cold rain relentlessly testing our endurance. Soon after fainting a stubborn Cherrim, I hear a low pitched neigh from behind us, accompanied by a light rumble in the earth. We turn around to look, as it came from behind us, behind a grass-less hill. The first thing we see emerge from behind the hill is a bright blue hue illuminating the wet earth at the hill's crest. Galloping over the hill, the source is some kind of horse - a unique looking Rapidash (ギャロップ). The flames coming from it's mane and hooves were not the usual orange-yellow, but instead piercing shades of blue. Under the dark grey sky, this Rapidash both blended in, and stood out brilliantly. The burning blue fire seemed to be larger, brighter, and more furious than a usual Rapidash - perhaps because it was raining so hard, and Rapidash had to work it's flames overtime when it was raining.

This Fire-type seemed at somewhat of a disadvantage because of the rain, and soon I engaged it in battle with the intent to capture. However, if anything, it proved to be stronger because of the rain - perhaps because of the unique blue nature of it's flames. Normally a wild monster will attack you or run away, but this Rapidash seemed only to be playing. It was certainly strong enough to put up a fight, and could have easily ran away if it wanted to. But this Rapidash somehow enjoyed the rain and wanted to play in it with me.
After a single Hi Jump Kick from Zuruggu, I felt this blue-flamed Rapidash was weak enough to capture. I instinctively grabbed a Poké Ball and threw it - to no avail - the blue Rapidash broke free and quirkily fell over and rolled around in the wet grass, making a steam rise up and engulf it. Then I remembered my stock of Premier Balls I had saved for just a special occasion. I only had to throw two or three until the blue Rapidash finally submitted and the final Ball stopped moving with a click. I immediately high fived my Zuruggu and we did our secret handshake in victory. After such a battle, we decided to go back to the Pokémon Center in Kagome for the night to rest ourselves and our new friend Rapidash.

>>2542
That was a very nice elaboration, if I do say so myself.

Although, I've always thought a Shiny Rapidash's flames look more Gray than anything, like flowing ash.

>>2545
Yeah I went crazy with the blue thing. Later I looked at the sprite again and realized it wasn't actually blue as you point out.

i caught a whismur shiny in emerald which is an Exploud now named whismur R for rare which i hate now and my geodude in heartgold named goldem is now a golem which now both have traveled to black with me

I started chaining again in my Platinum file. I chained up to 52 Bidoof and I ended up with 3 Shiny Bidoof. Then I decided to go to another spot and after one chain, I got a Shiny Roselia. That one was pure luck. :D

>>2788
I chained like 40 bidoof and couldn't nab a shiny. So lucky :{

my god, guys how did you do to keep a line of chain so long i cant past of seventeen.

>>2811
It takes forever. I know I would also stop at 17 all the time too.
Perseverance my friend, and touch of luck.

>>2542
I got another Shiny from BW! Only ~ 60 hours play time, too.
[English] Black Version. Exploring Unova post-first-E4. I was looking around in Chargestone Cave for a female Tynamo, which was taking a little while. I kept going past the charged boulders, and lo! Shiny Boldore! I like to think the environment of those electrically charged boulders made this Boldore shiny.

I took more notice this time, but the monster's number changes to a red colour, and the Pokédex makes note of the shiny-ness. I can imagine people going for entire Shiny dexes. I would rather have had a shiny Roggenrola for a complete shiny line, but I'm still so happy about the shiny Boldore. It's Docile nature (no changes), too, which I'm totally okay with. Gigalith is one of my favourite new monsters - I have one on my [JP] White team. So I definitely shall be using this new one some time.

>>2819
Woah, awesome! I love Gigaisu/lith a whole bunch too. I've never encountered a shiny Pokémon in any Pokémon game yet (other than events). If I lived on some island with just Pokémon and no internet, I would never have known they existed. Hopefully that will change sometime soon!

fucking bastard! you're so lucky

First shiny ever was a Duskull...I didn't chain him(was Sapphire), but basically just kept going til I got one. Thank the lord it was Impish xD

Found:
Zigzagoon
Stantler
Ghastly

Caught:
Zigzagoon

All of them female, oddly enough.
I had no pokeballs when I found the stantler, and the ghastly killed itself with curse. :(

Once i caught 2 shinies in a row just out of dumb luck.

does the red gyarados count?