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3rd Gen Shiny Pokemon Discussion

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shocbolt

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    never caught a shiny in my life.I have seen ONE but it was i the battle snake thingy and battle frontier
     

    Smarties-chan

    Should've had that name change
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    A Sad Story with shiny pokemon. Ive only ever seen one on Silver version. It was a Zubat, and I was trying to get through the **** cave and I just keep pressing A A A to run and i wasnt even looking, then i looked down and saw a Yellow Zubat as it said got away saftley. Sucked so bad.
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    That is very weird, because a shiny Zubat is pink, not yellow -_-

    I had a shiny encounter about a year ago, but I forgot to mention it. I was playing my emerald ROM and since I love the battle factory I just kept on playing it through again and again, then this dude with a shiny Tauros appeares and of course I can't catch it >.<
     

    Elite James

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    I haven't even seen a shiny.. Knowing my luck, i've seen loads and not realised, so just killed them as per usual xD
    haha, maybe one day i will find one..
    im not doing too bad on my game, to say im only 70 hours into it :)
    one day, i will OWN a shiny :(
     

    Aaryn

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    Of course. When you find a shiny and battle it, stars pop out of it (appart from the different color)

    SO for example, if your on tall frass running around like a madman, and a battle pops up and its shiny, youll see the pokemon appear as normal, from the left of the screen to the right of it, and when it stops and it shows perfectly, youll see stars pop out and youll see that the color is different from the normal color.

    It doesnt have anything else. Thats all there is to it. Luck and dedication to find it.
     

    Aaryn

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    you should ask about the odds of FINDING one, not of catching one.

    its 1/8192

    and that doenst mean that every 8192 battles you'll find at least one shiny. It resets after every battle!
     
    Maple Meganium

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    Yeah. I've done loads of statistical calculations with this sort of thing. Off the top of my head, I can recall that you have a 50% chance of seeing at least one shiny in 5678 turns. This is the population median. (It's possible you might go millions of turns without seeing a shiny, however...)
     

    zethias

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    That's nice to know. I didn't think shinies were out for the new games. I'll have to keep my eyes open now. Thanks for mentioning them.
     
    Maple Meganium

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    OK. It's possible, though very unlikely that you'll go millions of turns without seeing any shinies. You can expect to see a shiny every 8192 turns, on average.
     
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