YES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YES!! YES!!! YES!!! I GOT SHINY ELGYEM!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOO!!!! HAHA, THE DROUGHT IS OVER!!! WHOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!
Haha, this is awesome. Celestial Tower encounter #4196 was a shiny Elgyem!! I'm so happy! She was Unova Pokemon #6196 overall!
Yeah, so I hadn't done a whole lot of hunting for the last day and a half or so, and I was trying to get as many encounters in as possible before the day ended. I had started the hunt after seeing 1789 Pokemon in the normal course of the game, but I was getting tired of having to subtract whatever 1789 from whatever my total number of encounters was, so I went out to Victory Road and encountered 211 non-Litwick/Elgyem Pokemon just to make the math easier. :)
She has a Sassy nature and Synchronize, which is awesome. I don't know if Sassy is a good nature or not, but if I ever want Sassy on an SRable shiny, I'll be able to use a shiny Syncher!
The Elgyem mini-sprite looks blue, and I think this shiny looks so much better than the normal green. She looks so natural, "lol."
Isn't she a beauty?
I hope Black is a lucky game for me - she shone around 2000 encounters earlier than the average! :cer_laugh:
Latios Master and MetalMario, don't think I've let you off the hook that easily! The Litwick race is still on, and I'll be right back at the Celestial Tower, just on floor 2 this time, where Litwick has a 100% encounter rate! :pink_evil: *evil laughter*
This is a perfect example of Axiom 22 working flawlessly. I got Shiny Elgyem (whom I love!) while searching for Litwick, and now I can search for Litwick without worrying about catching a duplicate Elgyem, since the 2nd floor is all Litwick. Had I hunted on the 2nd floor to start with, I wouldn't be able to hunt Elgyem later on (by RE, at least) without risking another shiny Litwick. Now I can get them both! :cer_love:
Besides that, I've had 3,819 wild Pokémon encounters without finding a single shiny.
G-Money's pace is incredible. The only thing that gives me a chance is the Masuda method. About half of the Litwicks that I hatch are Timid, which is the best nature for it.
Don't worry about my pace! I lost my last shiny Litwick race, and I had about twice as many encounters as the other guy. *coughcoughShinyDougcoughcough* (Now I have eight times as many encounters as him, and I still don't have shiny Litwick! "lol") There is no such thing as a head start in a shiny race, since each encounter resets your chances to 1/8192. I could do five million encounters without getting one, and then say you start. At that point, we'd both have exactly the same chance to catch a shiny on our next Pokemon: 1/8192.
The reason I hadn't done as much shiny hunting as usual over the past couple of days is because I was actually reading a lot about shiny probabilities, and the stuff is pretty fascinating. You have a 50% chance of finding a shiny within your first 5678 encounters, and the chance of having found a shiny after 8192 encounters is actually 63%. As your number of encounters increases (towards infinity), your average nears 1 shiny per 8192 encounters. It's pretty cool how it all works.
Nothing new for now except a couple of chained keckleon a week ago aprox.
Haha, typical Chr. Draco style! "Nothing new" just means multiple shinies, "lol." Congrats on the Keckleon!
Hi everyone! =3 I'm new on this forum, but I'm shiny hunting for almost two years now. Maybe some of you know me from youtube and Serebii. I'm MrShinySoft on youtube and ShyniHunter on the Serebii forums. At the moment I'm not hunting, but I'm gonna resume my hunt on Shiny Chimchar in Platinum today.
Welcome to the Shiny Hunter's Club! I've seen a couple of your posts over at Serebii, and we're really glad to have you join! :)
After 175 eggs, I hatched a shiny Vulpix last night!
Congratulations! That's awesome! Lucky you - 175 eggs is less than 1/6th the average time it takes to Masuda! Nice job. :pink_wink:
Thanks for the luck, everyone! You helped me get my first shiny in...78 days! *hugs shiny Elgyem*
EDIT: 50 Litwick :P