First shiny pokemon

[Banned]

I don't know how, but after playing for 8 years, I've never caught a shiny, I've never seen one, never caught one. I've beat Gold at least 7 times, I've beat Sapphire at least 4 times, FireRed 5 times, but still have never found a shiny. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. xD

 

[Liamash3]

I don't know how, but after playing for 8 years, I've never caught a shiny, I've never seen one, never caught one. I've beat Gold at least 7 times, I've beat Sapphire at least 4 times, FireRed 5 times, but still have never found a shiny. I don't understand what I'm doing wrong. xD

Probably nothing. They're rare for a reason, and only got rarer with newer games (unless you count the B/W2 shiny chance upper item).

 

[Lilligant]

Ahh, the memories
What's the Masuda Method?

The Masuda Method is named after one of the Pokemon Translators (I think that's his part). If you have two pokemon, for example, a male Pidgey from your counrty and a female Starly from another country, when bred, there is a significantly higher chance to get a shiny Pokemon than by regular breeding.

Here's a more indepth description.
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Masuda_method

 

[SACooper95]

Wow, the odds are still against you. There's a guy on youtube who spends hours upon hours soft resetting his NDS until he get's a shiny. I though it was fake at first, be he had no action replay or anything. Man, I'd kill for a shiny Ho-oh or Golden Groudon.

The easiest way to get a shiny is to use the Masuda method on alot of dittos . Doesn't the odds increase if you breed a shiny and a non- shiny?

 

[Lilligant]

Wow, the odds are still against you. There's a guy on youtube who spends hours upon hours soft resetting his NDS until he get's a shiny. I though it was fake at first, be he had no action replay or anything. Man, I'd kill for a shiny Ho-oh or Golden Groudon.

The easiest way to get a shiny is to use the Masuda method on alot of dittos . Doesn't the odds increase if you breed a shiny and a non- shiny?

It has been tested, but it's only a tiny bit easier to get a shiny, the Masuda Method is the best way.

 

[Leeland]

My first shiny was Gyarados, on Gold. That doesn't really count though as everyone gets that.
So my first real shiny would have to be a Weedle I caught in the Bug Catching Contest in Crystal. I evolved it to a Beedrill. Looked pretty cool.
I also got a shiny Ditto by using that 'trade Red Gyarados to R/B/Y, encounter a wild Ditto and spam Mimic' trick (or whatever, I can't really remember how it goes).
My second and last wild shiny encounter was Solrock on Ruby. I was quite disappointed though. I never liked Solrock.

 

[Colin_Mg]

red gyarados - lake of rage

 

[Davey]

I think shinies were done wrong from Gen 3 onwards. When they improved the graphics, they should have restyled shiny Pokemon. I think each Pokemon should have multiple 'shiny colour status', in order to make shinies more unique and tradable. Certain shinies are always going to be less favourable because perhaps the shiny colours suck in comparison to even their original ones. Randomizing it would make a great deal of difference.

 

[Liamash3]

I think shinies were done wrong from Gen 3 onwards. When they improved the graphics, they should have restyled shiny Pokemon. I think each Pokemon should have multiple 'shiny colour status', in order to make shinies more unique and tradable. Certain shinies are always going to be less favourable because perhaps the shiny colours suck in comparison to even their original ones. Randomizing it would make a great deal of difference.

It'd be an interesting take, certainly...it'd also mean that there's 2-x amount of combo's of colours, so whatever shiny you find would be truly unique. Maybe we could implement it in Pokemon 3D?

 

[Lilligant]

It does sound good, but Nillzz won't go to far from the original G/S and HG/SS. I know that because he's making a 3D remake of G/S, and he wouldn't want to vary that in many ways.

 

[Liamash3]

It does sound good, but Nillzz won't go to far from the original G/S and HG/SS. I know that because he's making a 3D remake of G/S, and he wouldn't want to vary that in many ways.

In that case, an interested modder could give it a shot. It'd be a heck of a lot of work though...

 

[Lilligant]

Not really, all you would need to do is get the original sprites and shange some of the colours around. It's like sprite making but easier.

 

[Davey]

You'd need to have a table of values storing colour data for various different 'features' of a Pokemon. Then it'd have to randomize each of those colour features when it creates a Shiny. That, or you'd have to limit the number of varied shinies you can get, by taking the spritesheet for each Shiny Pokemon and creating say, the normal shiny skin and 5 other varied skins. I don't think it'd be something worth pursuing so far into development, but it would have been a nice effect. Would add a lot more value to trading.

 

[XT1shX]

Shroomish in Pearl
With Poison Heal as an ability.
So happy

 

[Pokesaurus]

Not counting Gyarados, mine was a Staravia. Back then, I thought evolving it made them lose their shinyness. I evolved it and got myself a Shiny Staraptor Sadly, I deleted the Save so it is no longer with me On Pokemon3D i have a shiny Zubat (no hax), and I believe I have had a few other shinies but cannot recall them.