FINALLY!!!!
That's right guys, I've finally gotten a new shiny! I was getting a little tired of REing for Swablu and Torkoal on Ruby and Sapphire, so I decided to take a little break by resuming an old hunt of mine; Spheal in Shoal Cave. I had already done 4,010 encounters from a previous stint, so I decided I would just raise my total to 4,250 encounters. Then I would switch back to REing for Torkoal.
Little did I know that I would never quite reach that milestone.
I can't believe that I'm actually saying this, but something in me truly
felt that I would get a shiny. I don't know how to explain it, but earlier today, when I was initially considering resuming my Spheal hunt, I thought to myself "Watch this be the time when I time that I actually get a shiny. When I'm not even hunting for a main target." I wouldn't call myself psychic because I NEVER have feelings like this, but MAN, let's just say that my intuition was certainly on point today!
Truth be told, I wasn't even able to tell that that the Pokemon was shiny until right before I saw the stars. As it was scrolling across the screen, it looked absolutely normal. However, when it stopped scrolling and came out of the shadow, the difference was a bit more noticeable. I was playing on my silver GBA SP (the one with the horrible backlight), so I truly had to wait for the stars to confirm my suspicion.
It felt like the longest wait of my life.
So, without further ado, allow me to introduce you to my 69th shiny, my 67th traditional shiny, and perhaps, (considering its prevalence as a common "random" shiny") one of the most overdue shinies in my career:
Why am I just now getting this shiny?
I had to take photos at an angle because the flash of my camera was surprisingly cumbersome. More pics!
I also made a video of the capture of this shiny. It's uploading right now. I'm so, so, happy with this shiny! And I'm glad that I finally got it; I feel justified in saying finally because I've seen 18,961 Pokemon since my last shiny...and considering the amount of luck that's been floating around lately, I'm overjoyed that I finally got the chance to bring some shiny news.
I do plan on evolving this shiny Golbat, just not immediately. I still have a day left of Spring Break, and I plan to spend a good deal of it shiny hunting. I have some other irl things I need to finish up really quickly, but otherwise, there really isn't anything stopping me from substantially raising my totals for some other targets between now and Sunday evening.
Hmmmm, what else do I want to say...? Oh yeah, my emotional reaction to this shiny Golbat was this: surprising disbelief -> ecstasy at finding a shiny -> mild disappointment at it not being Swablu/Torkoal -> ecstasy again because I actually like shiny Crobat and have wanted one for a while. I wouldn't call Crobat a dream shiny, but seriously, it seems like everyone and their mothers but me has a shiny Zubat. I used to refer to it as the most common shiny ever (other than the Red Gyarados, of course). But yeah, I am incredibly happy that I finally have a shiny Golbat of my own. I love it!
It has a Bashful nature, and its IVs are quite mediocre. Quite "shiny-esque", if I use a term coined by the French shiny hunting community.
So yeah, thanks for reading this unnecessarily long post! Good luck to everyone else that shiny hunting! And good luck to me as well because I seriously want something between Swablu, Torkoal, Gible, and Tepig to just shine for me already. x_X
Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxT67n7cbw8