*lays head on desk* Somebody get the sledgehammer. :(
*sigh* I've done it all today. I've spent about an hour and a half going through the Power Plant. I spent the other 30 minutes SR Snorlax. And then I broke the silence winning a Battle Factory thing. And then on Sapphire I got one of my Cacnea hatchlings for a Contest and won a Contest.
This........
....sucks.
Soon, maybe, I will get my Magnemite. My Aipom, when I first started using it on this shiny hunt in FR, was Lv. 46. Now it's like Lv. 53. And that's beating migen Horsea, Karps and the occasional Voltorb and Pikachu.
I don't have alot of Pokemon on Emerald. I'm very, very unprepared. I'm going to park my Magneton, Machamp and Ninetails (not Shiny) in the box and get my few other Pokemon, and going back out into Route 120 and looking... and occasionally going back to SR for Sudowoodo. In my Battle Factory match, I had a Sudowoodo. It was my lead Pokemon for all 7 matches. It only failed me 2 times. It and Rock Slide were great. So, a Shiny version of my own wouldn't be so bad at all. I would just have to learn how to weild it. (The Lv. 50 creature's Special Attack stat was 36!! Whoa! That's VERY, VERY low!!)
Looks like I've been giving my luck away. To the person who caught the Absol... that's just astonishing. And kinda depressing in the same way. Several people here (including me a bit) were looking for such Pokemon. You have no clue how really lucky you are to find an Absol, a shiny one at that. Congradulations.
You can still EV train the Machoke. That's the only difference. You can still make it the Pokemon it could have been if it was just a mere Machop, raising it up. You'll just have to be patient. I actually preferred when my Vulpix hit Lv. 40, it was levelling up slower, making it to get in many more Digletts per level up. However, I had spent all 10 vitamins on it, so it made it alot easier. If you have FR or LG, get a very, very powerful Pokemon, put the Amulet Coin on it, and go to Resort Gorgeous in the Sevii Islands, and use the VS. Seeker on the Lady(s) and Artist(s) there. You will get double money back. Withen 30 minutes I had my wallet full again (not all the way full, but I was able to get 20 - 30 vitamins).
Speaking on the VS. Seeker, you get it in FR/LG (in R/S/E you have to use Trainer Eyes and a different method that requires going in and out of a Route) in the Vermilion City Pokemon Center.
That's why it's always vital to talk to EVERYONE.
The person inside appears to be a Battle Girl and she's standing near the counter where you ask to heal your Pokemon.
-DDD