My gosh, would you guys mind slowing down? "lol" this is getting ridiculous! 5 shinies in less than two days? Whoo, we're on fire! Awesome shiny spree right here!
I might not have gotten a shiny (who would've guessed...), but I did get SS and W!!! I'm absolutely thrilled about this! Silver was the first video game I ever played, so it holds tons of great memories, and lots of my favorite Pokemon are Johto. Cyndaquil and Chikorita are probably my two favorite Pokemon, and now I get to SR for them!! I'll be SRing for the Unova starters too, and afterwards the monkeys. I'm not going to actually play the game until I get those 6 shinies, so it's probably going to take a long, long time. :) Let's see, 6 shinies ago was...June 2008! So it takes me a little less than three years to get six shinies. Good to know that I'll be getting Zekrom and Landorus soon. :D
And a huge congratulation to the Shiny Hunter's Club for making PokeCommunity history! We were one of the egg threads!! For Easter, there were 60 eggs hidden around PC, and you could look for them and try to get all 60. One of the eggs was hidden in the first post here, and that's a huge accomplishment for the SHC. The eggs were hidden mostly in stickies, announcements, and the most important topics. It's great to know that we're looked upon by the site as one of the most important, if not the most important, thread on the site! :D We were egg #5 of 60, and that's pretty awesome.
Congratulations to our very own Landorus for having his post blessed with Easter tidings! It's a great sign, "lol." No wonder the shinies are coming in like crazy now!
Filling up the Pokedex is actually a really good way to shiny hunt. If you get one of every Pokemon, you're bound to have tons of encounters. It also diversifies which Pokemon you encounter, so you never know which one will turn out shiny! This is actually the way I got my shiny Magnemite - I was trying to fill up the Dex in Diamond, and I had transferred lots of final evolutions over from the third generation. I bred them because that's quicker than transferring first stage evolutions and then spending time on leveling them up, and so I ended up hatching at least an egg or two of most (not most, but definitely a lot) Kanto and Hoenn Pokemon. When I got the Magnemite egg so I could get Magnemite for my Dex, it came out shiny!!!
That's cool. I actually had an experience similar to yours - I got my shiny Bibarel when trying to complete the Dex! I was going through the Great Marsh, perilously trying to catch the rare Pokemon there for the Dex, and much to my dismay, a shiny Bibarel appeared! Haha, you can bet I was scared seeing that, "lol." It's the shiny hunter land of doom! Fortunately, I was one of the few lucky ones who survived!
I also got my shiny Staravia when searching for a normal Meowth to complete the Dex, "lol." It's awesome to get shinies when you least expect it!
I estimated the chances of getting a shiny throughout the course of the game to be around 20%
I don't think that's accurate. Just because you see 1700 Pokemon or whatever in each play-through doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to get a shiny one out of five times, because that logic implies that by seeing 8192 Pokemon, you'd have a definite shiny, which isn't true at all. If you see 2000 Pokemon, do you have a one in four chance of getting a shiny? No, that just means that you have one-fourth of the encounters it takes to find a shiny on average.
I'm not 100% sure on the math there...
Congratulations! That's awesome - I love the Johto starters. :)
You definitely deserved it after so many resets!
okay, so my shiny spiritomb quest went a LOT faster than I expected, and I mean a LOT faster.
on the 8th egg it hatched!!]
:cer_disbelief: Wow. Just wow.
8 eggs??? That's incredible!! Talk about Easter luck, "lol." That Buneary sure brought us a lot of shinies this year!
Hello all! ^_^ I'm new here... I have a few shinies, Pachirisu, Geodude, Flareon, Charizard...and recently, Whimsicott. ^_^ First one I found when I wasn't trying... Though, funny story with Pachi. I was chaining a DIFFERENT Pokemon and a shiny Pachirisu broke my chain. o.O
My current hunt is Eevee! I'm hatching eggs, I have done this before and given up after about 90... xD But now, on my new game, I have 124 more and don't plan on giving up! I'm going to get it to have a jolly nature--it's mother does, and has an everstone, so all the little Eevees have been coming out jolly. I plan to evolve it into Leafeon. ^_^
I have a youtube channel and a Livejournal...message me if you want them, I won't spam this place with links. ^^
Welcome to the SHC! We're glad to have you join! You have an awesome shiny collection! *stares at shiny Charizard*
I would love to join this club. As you can see by my siggy, I love me the shinies! I am working on a cottonee at the moment. I stopped counting eggs after 150 but I am not discouraged yet. I know it will come if I keep at it! :)
Welcome to the club, Masuda Master! It looks like you're not too too bad at getting shinies - it looks like you have a couple here or there. :D "lol" that's incredible!! You might just have the record for most shinies by a new member!
How did you get your shiny Manaphy?? I've always wanted one, but I heard that you need to restart your game, trade it, see if it's shiny, restart your game again, etc.
Your shiny beasts are the event ones, right? *checking for Dex purposes*
Hey guys, congrats on all the new shinies! I paused the hatching of Charmander and Venonat since I already hatched quite a number of them and decided to go back to the Eevee I was hatching. On the 294th egg, shiny Eevee hatched! His nature is bold, so if I do decide to evolve him (I might not), I will evolve him into Vaporeon since his nature suggests it. Ahaha.
Congratulations! 294 eggs? The SHC is finding shinies left and right! Eevee's an awesome shiny to have, since you get to pick from 8 shiny options. :) Vaporeon is a good choice!
After a modest 3248 soft resets, may I present...
It feels good to have finally broken my dry spell which (excluding Pokéradar) spans since last Summer when I found Ho-oh. Now I want more! My thrill for the hunt is re-ignited!
Congratulations! You've got yourself an awesome shiny right there. :) I hear the resets take a ton of time now, so that makes the shiny all the more impressive!
Now I'm probably the candidate for longest dry spell, "lol."
Wow... this might just be the weirdest weekend I've ever had... I didn't take a picture of it because I wasn't bothered to (woke up at 6, beat the game, and did all my "stuff"), but this is what happened at around 9:30 AM:
So... I transferred some of my pokemon to black (I have 2 DS's), and started looking for other 6 of the seven sages. I've found 3 so far, so I went on to chargestone cave, and on my first encounter...
...:D
Alright, this is getting ridiculous now. I think someone in delivery mishandled our requests, because I ordered a batch of luck last month, and it still hasn't arrived. Someone probably sent you my luck by accident...
:D Seriously though, congratulations! It's awesome to get two shinies in one week! (I have two this year, "lol.") Both of your recent shinies qualify for the circuit - Rayquaza counts for the legendary leg and Ferroseed qualifies for the uniquely typed shiny. Congrats on being first place in the circuit! So far... *my diabolical laughter is somewhat less threatening than usual because everyone else has a lot of catching up to do*
Good luck on your hunts, everyone! Like you really need it,though...