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Harry Blue5 June 16th, 2008 8:21 AM

Shiny Pokémon
 
Discuss what you think about Shiny Pokémon. Was it a good idea to put in Shiny Pokémon in GSC? Do you have any Shiny Pokémon? Have you encountered any Shiny Pokemon? Discuss all about them here.

Skip Shot June 16th, 2008 9:16 AM

The only good shiny I got besides gyarados was a magby that creamed the elite 4 :p

Skaterzpenguin June 17th, 2008 8:58 AM

I have caught: shiny meowth, hoothoot, ditto, magnemite, gyarados, tentacool, and a spearow.

I have seen these shiny pokemon and had no poke/great/ultra balls or another mistake: goldeen, and a grimer.

MightyMightyena June 18th, 2008 9:43 AM

The only shiny I caught in GSC was the red gyarados in Gold.

Yoshiko75 June 18th, 2008 6:42 PM

I haven't encountered any Shiny Pokémon except the red Gyrados in Crystal.

yomamathecableguy June 19th, 2008 5:49 AM

it was definitely a good idea, considering that you can breed pokemon to get shinies, which is very useful to me (a breeder)

Skip Shot June 19th, 2008 6:13 AM

I just caught a shiny bellsprout. Yay!

GKS June 20th, 2008 2:21 PM

The Red Gyardos was the only shiny I got in Crystal. Shinies aren't anything special, just different and rare. They are as strong or as weak a non-shiny. I'm sure you knew that:).

Harry Blue5 June 20th, 2008 11:42 PM

But Shinies are good for bragging rights and to amaze your friends who don't know anything about them.

Raika June 20th, 2008 11:52 PM

I have a shiny Spinarak in Silver (and the Red Gyarados, of course) And I might have some others, I don't know, I didn't log it :P

Could it be that shinies were put in there to fill empty slots? So we wouldn't get the whole Missingno. glitch again? I'm not a programmer, so I'm just guessing from what I've read..

Xx~Raika

Harry Blue5 June 20th, 2008 11:58 PM

No, shinies are just when you get lucky and the game is programmed to sometimes give you an alternatively coloured Pokémon.

Stevey Poo June 21st, 2008 7:05 AM

Only Shiny Pokemon I have caught, were Red Gyarados and Smoochum in Crystal

yomamathecableguy June 21st, 2008 12:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harry Blue5 (Post 3690523)
No, shinies are just when you get lucky and the game is programmed to sometimes give you an alternatively coloured Pokémon.

not necessarily "luck". you can greatly increase your odds through breeding, then it becomes a little more than luck. chance would be a better word. of course in the wild you only have a 1:8,192 chance to find a shiny. that would be something you could call luck.

Harry Blue5 June 21st, 2008 12:24 PM

It's still luck, even IF you increase the chances, as there is still a chance of not getting the Shiny.

Also, tge breeding means you actually have to already have a Shiny, so it doesn't help for people who haven't got a shiny yet.

yomamathecableguy June 21st, 2008 12:30 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Harry Blue5 (Post 3692303)
It's still luck, even IF you increase the chances, as there is still a chance of not getting the Shiny.

Also, tge breeding means you actually have to already have a Shiny, so it doesn't help for people who haven't got a shiny yet.

i'll settle with the luck thing, but with breeding you don't have to have a shiny. the pokemon just has to have the defense/special genes of a shiny, and it can pass those down, possibly producing a shiny.

Jacob.McCool June 22nd, 2008 1:17 AM

once in Pokemon silver i was against a shiny vulpix in the wild but i ran away because it was a girl...
i really do regret it now.

Hysteria__ June 22nd, 2008 1:41 PM

Haven't even seen a shiny other than the Gyrados in about 50 hours of Crystal. One day..

I really hope when I do find one, it's not a Swinub or Zubat or something.

By the way, do Pokemon only have one shiny color variation?

Zero Avenged June 22nd, 2008 4:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hysteria__ (Post 3695985)
Haven't even seen a shiny other than the Gyrados in about 50 hours of Crystal. One day..

I really hope when I do find one, it's not a Swinub or Zubat or something.

By the way, do Pokemon only have one shiny color variation?

yeah they do

I think shiny pokemon are over rated. I have found 3 shiny pokemon though. A bagon ,a Nicada, and A groudon(god I was lucky on this one) But i really don't look for them cuz i like my pokemon to look normal....as normal as they are XD

Lt. Silver June 23rd, 2008 3:03 AM

just wondering, If I breed say a male shiny with a female non-shiny of a different species do I still get the reduced odds?

damdes June 23rd, 2008 8:10 AM

I met a shiny ryhorn but i killed it D;
Stupid me.

yomamathecableguy June 23rd, 2008 5:01 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sean (Post 3697506)
just wondering, If I breed say a male shiny with a female non-shiny of a different species do I still get the reduced odds?

a lot of factors go into figuring out the odds while breeding. things like gender, gender ratios, and genes. you can't really tell what the odds will be with that information. they could be anywhere from 0:1 to 1:32

PoetikaL June 23rd, 2008 6:36 PM

It was a good idea, it gives people more of an incentive to keep on playing.

I still remember when I first encountered my first shiny in Silver. I was bored and I was fishing in the Cerulean Gym, just doing nothing. All of a sudden I get a tug on my Super Rod. It was a Kingler, didn't think any of it. All of sudden it flashed and it was silver!!! First I thought it was a glitch. I had no Poke balls on me and I had no choice to kill it. At the point I kept fishing, hoping to get another chance to encounter that Kingler.... but it never happened again. Good times good times.

Dukey June 24th, 2008 9:03 PM

I have a shiny spearow on silver... (so ashamed)
and the red gyarados but i dont count that.

in SHINY gold I caught shiny ho-oh on my like millionth attempt of trying to catch him

my cousin versed a trainer who had a red gyarados or something?
is this possible?

yomamathecableguy June 25th, 2008 5:12 AM

this is not possible unless the game was glitching up. every trainer's pokemon has a preset gene set. and none of them are the genes of a shiny.

Zero Avenged June 25th, 2008 8:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yomamathecableguy (Post 3702719)
this is not possible unless the game was glitching up. every trainer's pokemon has a preset gene set. and none of them are the genes of a shiny.

No it's possible. In Leaf Green if you go to battle tower and enter double battle then a girl trainer will have a Shiny espeon.


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