Your thoughts on Shinies?

[Phantasmagoria]

1. Do you like shinies?
Shinies are nice. Though there are only a few shinies that are awesome. The others are... okay? They're pretty much any other Pokemon to me, though.

2. Have you ever found a shiny?
Indeed I have.

3. If so, what pokemon was it?
Silver: Donphan
Gold: Oddish, Weedle
Pearl: Budew

The others shinies that I have are either RNG'd, the egg in Crystal (Elekid), or traded over to me. That or I soft-resetted for it (i.e Shiny Bulbasaur in Soul Silver).

 

[Fire_Floatzel]

i used to be afraid of shinies, but now i like them.

Pearl- I found a shiny bronzor in wayward cave but didn't catch it because i was scared of shinies that time.
I found a shiny geodude in oreburgh mine and caught it.

Soul Silver- I fought a trainer with a shiny kabutops in the battle arcade, no hacks or ar.

 

[Assault]

I voted love them but to be honest I don't.
I appreciate them being a part of the game but there was no option saying 'yes'.
Just 'I LOVE THEM'. -.-

 

[riddleraven]

I like them. Some of them are really cool looking. I like having them. I think it's fun. And I'm glad we're able to use this site to spread them around and make them less rare.

I ran into a shiny oddish in the forest on Heart Gold. It's the first and only I've ever run into. (Although I think I MIGHT have run into a shiny tentacool on Crystal once but I'm not certain because back then I didn't know about shinies) And yes, I caught the oddish. So that one's special.

 

[rockets>u]

To be honest, most of the shiny forms look absolutely terrible.

The puke green coloured shiny forms are the worst, most water types turn purple (no originality), some are so bad that you don't even know they are the shiny form and most very few "gold" pokemon are actually gold!

The only shinies i like are Zapdos (even though there is minimal change), the 3 dogs and Charizard.


Oh and Moltres. LOL

* Whenever i play a rom, i will always edit 90% of the shinies.

 

[Mew~]

I love how shinys are different colours to their normal colours and usually pwetty :3
I do dislike a few like charmeleon because charmeleons my fav pokemon and they made it yellow :( Although Black charizard is awsome :D
Yes I have caught a few shinys in my time :) Pidgey (SS) Tangela (FR) Bagon (Pearl) - I think thats it :O

 

[ABSOLutely]

Got a shiny finally after about 12 years of pokemon, going to kick out the worst starter in existence meganium and replace him with the shiny gloom I caught :D just need to find a leaf stone now, lol.

 

[Devil Flamingo]

I never have, and never will, care for shinies. I don't see how they're relevant at all or why people make a fuss about them. I have a shiny Skuntank that I use competitively only because he's got the right nature and ability, and I think the colour scheme is just as nifty as the non-shiny one. That's about it, really.

 

[Hybrid Trainer]

1. Yes i do like shinies. I love the way they shine :P

2. Yes i have.

3.
Pokemon Silver - None unfortunately
Pokemon Emerald - Tentacool (Caught it, Cloned i, Traded it for a load of rare pokemon :P)
Pokemon Leaf Green - Bublasaur (was soft-resseting for a modest one but i came along a shiny along the way :D)
Pokemon Diamond - Roselia (caught it, trained it to level 100, evolved it, loving it even more now that its a Roserade)
Pokemon Platinum - Haunter, Vulpix, Tyrouge, Nidoran♂, Eevee, Poliwag (All done using the madusa method through breeding XD)
Pokemon Soul Silver - Giratina (Was resetting the game to watch the cool animation and when i hatched the egg it was shiny!!! Since though my game has been reset :()

 

[Pandesal]

I don't like most of the shiny-coloured versions of Pokemon. But I suppose they're kind of cool as a little extra thing, given how rare they are and all that. That's why I always try to catch every shiny I encounter... which isn't much so far.

My first shiny was a Raticate in Crystal, I think. I also recently managed to catch a shiny Swinub for my team in Heart Gold. The snot-green colour looks terrible on Mamoswine (it'd probably look terrible on most, if not all, other Pokemon), but at least it sparkles...?

 

[Lunoon]

Shiny pokemon are ok to me, it's cool whenever I do find one but I don't like them as much as to go out of my way to find one. I've only found three out of playing all the games, those pokemon were

- Snorunt (D/P)
- Pikachu (FR/LG)
- Ralts (R/S/E)

 

[Ho-Oh]

I don't have shinies except the Gyarados. ;___________;

Though due to that egg thing in Crystal or whatevs, I got two outta that, but other than that...nothing. :(

Though I really do want one. I got to a chain of 40 with Ponyta and accidentally forgot to use repel soo that blew that chance. And um. I was aiming to get a shiny Chansey and Cubone, but got lazy. Atm, whenever I play HG, trying to use Matsuda method but meh. XD;

In other words, I really want a shiny but I'm too lazy to bother trying to get one.

 

[Garringman]

I had a Tentacruel in FR, Mareep in Gold, and Shinx in Pearl and recently Kakuna in SS, I really do like Shinies but some are just lazy like Armaldo,
Anorith has Gold in place of Blue but Armaldo just looks like they layed foil over him and kept those colors and Garchomps thats just a darker form of itself.

 

[Pikachu lvl88]

1. I like that colors of some Pokemon but I dislike a wtf chance of meeting them o.o
2. Yes.
3. Spinda in Ruby (bwahaha)

 

[Saitou]

I never really bothered looking for a shiny, since I really do not care. I only caught one shiny back then, and it was Pidgey.

 

[Dakotah]

I really haven't been concerned with catching a shiny. A shiny Pokemon doesn't have any advantage over a regular Pokemon, other than the fact that it is of a different colour. I have only ever encountered the red Gyarados, which in my opinion doesn't really count as it can be found and caught by anyone as part of the game's storyline.

 

[NatureKeeper]

Lemme see... Hmmm..

My first was a Bellsprout, but I didn't know that it was rare, and I casually released it.
Next time was in my sis's Emerald, an Oddish. Sadly, I didn't have Pokéballs.
Next time was on my sister's emerald, a DAMN shiny Zigzagoon. My sister kept it as an HM Slave. Until the save file was gone.
The final time on Gameboy Advance, and ever was a shiny Zigzagoon in Ruby which I released due to its uselessness. I do remember having it for sometimes, until that town island... The one with Brawly, you know?

Since Gen IV, I only found the Shiny Gyarados in Lake of Rage.

 

[Bear]

I don't care about shinies. I've never gone looking for them, the odds make it a colossal waste of time.

I find one or two with every generation. My first was a Caterpie in Crystal, then a Zigzagoon in Ruby, Tentacool in Emerald, Voltorb in LG and recently another Tentacool in HG.

I always catch them though. You can't not catch a shiny.

 

[r0bert]

I have been soooooo lucky twice in my live!!!
i bought a dratini in firered,looked at it and said OMFG!!!!it's F****** shiny!!!
and when i was hatching a larvitar for egg moves i again said:OMFG!!!!it's F****** shiny!!!

 

[Jordan]

For the most part, shinies don't have much of a meaning to me besides something that's nice to have. I've yet to capture one in a real game cartridge and don't have time to go hunting/breeding for one, so building a love for them wouldn't be healthy for me either. I do wish I had more, though...