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4th Gen I missed a Shiny - Whats better? Save or restart?

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airconditioning

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    • Neither one will let you meet a shiny any faster. Your chain's been broken, so you're gonna have to start all over. Sorry, bud.
     

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    • LMAO! I love the swearing in the background.

    But yeah, if you were chaining you're gonna have to restart your chain all over, and if you weren't then there's a 1 in 8192 chance you'll see another shiny. Sorry... :\
     

    airconditioning

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    • Honestly, I hate the Great Marsh, too. I tried a million times to catch an Azurill there, and I just ended up breeding two Marrills. Once you catch the Pokes you need, never bother with it again.
     
    mattfeeder18

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    • Aha, the classic 'Shiny Pokémon fled' message.

    My mate had it happen to him on FireRed, a shiny Tauros in the Safari Zone!!!

    Only seen two shinies myself, shiny Weedle on Silver, and dunno why but didnt catch it, was a female, i know its RARE, but i already had a male Weedle, and probably wouldnt have trained it. Stupid, but my Silver game wiped anyway. No matter.

    And the second was on LeafGreen, a shiny Zapdos. I wanted to catch the Zapdos with one Ultra Ball, so kept restartin when it failed, and then a shiny Zapdos!!!!! I thought, screw it, weakened it and threw Ultra Balls till i had no more, then Great Balls, and everything else i had. But i ran out, so i couldnt catch it. Damn!
     

    Piplup-Trainer

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    • I turned the DS off, because I think, it's faster to meet a shiny, if you turn the DS off and try it again (I know that I'm very stupid to believe such a ****).
    Last year I did the same. One month later a shiny Wurmple appeared.
    The very strange thing is that most of the shinies that i meet (Wurmple, Skorpiun) appear in the night.
    The Shiny Natu appeared at about 10-11:30 PM.

    I was very lucky in Pokemon Gold.
    I catched Shiny Natu and Shiny Onix --> cloned them and trained the clone.
    And so I got Xatu and Stellix too (That means 4 shinies).
     
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    Ársa

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    • I'm just wondering why you just happened to have your Camera on when you ran into a Shiny. This just seems like bad trolling to me... (And Hacking)

    ~T_S
     

    airconditioning

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    • Tortured_Soul said:
    I'm just wondering why you just happened to have your Camera on when you ran into a Shiny. This just seems like bad trolling to me... (And Hacking)

    ~T_S
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    Not exactly. Here's the scenario:

    1: See a Shiny. NKLgrnjklasdghkfGRSEIOWAEIJROUIGW!!!!!!11!!!!?11

    2: Scramble for a camera

    3: Start recording and posting your epic capture on Youtube.

    4: Continue battle. Fail capture.

    5: ****!
     

    Piplup-Trainer

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    • It wasn't hacked!
    If I would hack a shiny, then I would record before, how I'm walking in the grass!!!

    That was it, but after the failure I putted the video in Youtube.

    DUDE! I WAS SEARCHING FOR A SKORPIUN! I WOULD CAPTURE IT AND LET HIM EVOLUE TO DRAPION!
    I COULD NOW HAVE A SHINY DORAPION IN MY PERFECT POKEMON-TEAM!
    Why I was so stupid and didn't wait 3-4 seconds longer.
     
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    mattfeeder18

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    • Piplup-Trainer said:
    I turned the DS off, because I think, it's faster to meet a shiny, if you turn the DS off and try it again (I know that I'm very stupid to believe such a ****).
    Last year I did the same. One month later a shiny Wurmple appeared.
    The very strange thing is that most of the shinies that i meet (Wurmple, Skorpiun) appear in the night.
    The Shiny Natu appeared at about 10-11:30 PM.
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    Does the time have any bearing on whether you get a shiny or not?
     

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    • Tortured_Soul said:
    I'm just wondering why you just happened to have your Camera on when you ran into a Shiny. This just seems like bad trolling to me... (And Hacking)

    ~T_S
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    If it was hacked he could have thousands of other oppurtunities to get a shiny Skorupi. Do you really think, that if he was hacking, he'd yell "@#$%!!!" at the end?
     
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