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Dragonmage January 4th, 2013 7:46 PM

Worst Shiny Experience
 
The ONLY shiny pokemon I've ever seen in the wild is a Ralts. Do you want to know where? It was the one Wally caught in Emerald. -_- You heard me. I had to fight a shiny Gardevoir the rest of the game. I wanted to cry when I saw that thing.
What's your worst experience with a shiny Pokemon?
Just for the record, I challenge anyone to come up with anything worse than what happened to me. Hahahaha.

Gideon Jeremiah January 4th, 2013 7:48 PM

I booted up my first Gen II game...

Ran into a shiny Hoothoot, had no Pokèballs, didn't realized what I had missed.
It was soul-crushing when I realized that I adored Noctowl...

WinterKirby January 4th, 2013 7:52 PM

The first shiny I saw in Gen V was Krokorok. I ran out of Pokéballs to catch it with.

But, shiny Krokorok is butt ugly anyway.

Sydian January 4th, 2013 8:55 PM

This can apply to more than RSE/FRLG, and people are answering with non-3rd gen games anyway, so off to PGC this goes.

I myself haven't had a bad shiny incident. ;3

vaporeon7 January 4th, 2013 11:08 PM

I've had many bad shiny experiences.

#1: Shiny Rattata in Gold, no Pokédex yet.
#2: Shiny Jolteon in the Battle Pyramid in Emerald.
#3: Shiny Metagross in the Battle Tower in Ruby.
#4: Shiny Combee... male shiny Combee.

alisaie January 4th, 2013 11:19 PM

I haven't had any bad shiny experiences. I've caught all the shinies I found and any shinies I lost it was because I restarted the game (my Gold) or I lost the game (My Silver). But that's pretty much it.

johnny18 January 4th, 2013 11:28 PM

My worst shiny experience is when I met a shiny Stantler. I was RNG abused the two roamers Raikou and Entei. I'm about to RNG a Latios, then this shiny stantler comes up. Seriously, right after I caught my RNGed Raikou just to test if i get it right :(. I ended up catching both raikou and entei and could not rng my latios at all since if I want to RNG it, i need both raikou and entei.

lineofdeath January 5th, 2013 12:37 AM

My worst experience was with my rivals pokemon, all were shiny for some reason?
I am so annoyed wo4th RGN

alolan vulpix January 5th, 2013 7:00 AM

My shiny experience isn't as bad as some other people's, but here we go:
I'd played Pokemon for years and never run into shinies. I started "hunting" (at that time I got tired after 20 soft resets lol!), and tried what I thought was really hard to get a shiny for a couple of weeks. That weekend, my friend who played pokemon ran into a random Shiny Zubat, and the next day ran into a Shiny Clefairy!
That's not even it - I was using my sister's Diamond version, when I ran into a Shiny Girafarig! But... my sister wouldn't let me keep it.

SaniOKh January 5th, 2013 9:37 AM

You have heard stories like this all over the internet I guess, but I'll tell it anyway: one of the only two shiny Pokémon I've met was a Graveler, who used Selfdestruct right away.

filecabinet24 January 5th, 2013 9:48 AM

I've never had any bad shiny experiences but the first shiny I caught was a Dewgong...and shiny Dewgong are barely any different than the non-shiny ones. :P

Cerberus87 January 5th, 2013 9:50 AM

It was a shiny Hoothoot in Eterna Forest in Platinum, but I was with that girl with the Chansey so two wild Pokémon appeared at the same time. Stupid girl KOed the Pokémon I attacked, and my Pokémon attacked the Hoothoot instead, killing it.

Kikaito plush January 5th, 2013 9:54 AM

Probably told this story many times...

I was in the safari zone in pokemon Pearl when a shiny Starly appeared and the game decides to crash on me.

Itstoppedatumbreon January 5th, 2013 9:59 AM

my first shiny i met ( apart from gyarados!) was in diamond, and was a...
Shiny friggin Magikarp

iammickey January 5th, 2013 10:54 AM

Shiny 钻地虫 is my first shiny PKM.

pikakitten January 5th, 2013 12:19 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragonmage (Post 7471592)
The ONLY shiny pokemon I've ever seen in the wild is a Ralts. Do you want to know where? It was the one Wally caught in Emerald. -_- You heard me. I had to fight a shiny Gardevoir the rest of the game. I wanted to cry when I saw that thing.
What's your worst experience with a shiny Pokemon?
Just for the record, I challenge anyone to come up with anything worse than what happened to me. Hahahaha.

Challenge accepted. First time playing Ruby, my first pokemon game. I beat May and was returning to the lab when all of a sudden. Shiny Poochyena, first wild I saw (aside from the Poochyena you fight) and yes I knew what a shiny was, I loved pokemon before I played Ruby, so I was heartbroken xD

Sydian January 5th, 2013 12:28 PM

Quote:

Challenge accepted. First time playing Ruby, my first pokemon game. I beat May and was returning to the lab when all of a sudden. Shiny Poochyena, first wild I saw (aside from the Poochyena you fight) and yes I knew what a shiny was, I loved pokemon before I played Ruby, so I was heartbroken xD
idk, I think having to actually face that shiny every time you fight Wally knowing it's not yours is worse. :P

Sassy Milkshake January 5th, 2013 12:55 PM

I guess my worst experience is the lack of experiences. I've played the games for over ten years, only seen one shiny Pokemon besides Gyarados, and it was a Machop. Not as bad as seeing and not being able to catch, but it still frustrates me that my luck is so bad. ;P

Mr Cat Dog January 5th, 2013 3:30 PM

Does not encountering a non-Red Gyarados count as a 'worst shiny experience'? 'Cause that's all I've got, to be honest...

Devante77 January 5th, 2013 3:40 PM

I once found a random shiny bellsprout in the safari zone in soulsilver, I thought it was cool cuz. Of the gold leaves so I thre some bait at it. It ate and ran on the first turn.

Brendino January 5th, 2013 10:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragonmage (Post 7471592)
The ONLY shiny pokemon I've ever seen in the wild is a Ralts. Do you want to know where? It was the one Wally caught in Emerald. -_-

Had a similar experience on Fire Red, where the Weedle that the Old Man teaches you how to catch was shiny. Sure, I didn't have to see it again, but I probably felt the same way you did just having to watch it happen and not be able to do anything about it.

My other bad experience was seeing a Shiny Paras in the Safari Zone on Fire Red. I was down to one last Safari Ball, and I didn't want to chance throwing a rock at it, so I crossed my fingers and threw the ball. It escaped after two shakes, and my Safari game was over.

Septentrion January 5th, 2013 11:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Itstoppedatumbreon (Post 7472412)
my first shiny i met ( apart from gyarados!) was in diamond, and was a...
Shiny friggin Magikarp

This, Except cystal/silver(forget) version, and in the friggin Dragon's Den.

I do have a relatively good experience with them otherwise.

Aryan143 January 5th, 2013 11:27 PM

My first 2 shinies were my worst shiny experiences. The first one was a Zubat in FR and I accidently ran before realizing that it was a shiny. My second was a Rattata in FR when I was on Route 1 and didn't had a Pokedex. :(

Hikamaru January 5th, 2013 11:51 PM

Running from a shiny Boldore in Black, which was a shame cos it looks nice.

I did catch a shiny Drilbur months later to make up for it. He's an Excadrill now.

kammond January 6th, 2013 6:42 AM

Worst shiny experience: never seeing one ever.

Arlo January 6th, 2013 9:15 AM

The only bad shiny experience I've had is a relatively common one - encountering a shiny Geodude, then watching it blow itself up.

Alice January 6th, 2013 9:24 AM

I've only ever seen one shiny, and I caught it... so I haven't really had any bad experiences. It was a pidgey in Crystal though, so I guess it sucks that I can't use it in any current games.

King_21 January 6th, 2013 9:26 AM

Well I once cought a shiny geodude in Pokémon Emarald and I cought another shiny in HG but it was a spearow .
I liked the geodude but I hate spearows .

o Pikachu o January 6th, 2013 7:06 PM

My worst experience is when I soft resetted on a shiny giratina after wasting days hunting for it. Another one would be when I encountered a Shiny Hoppip on Crystal while I had no Pokedex.

Dillon_68 January 6th, 2013 7:52 PM

I found a shiny Poochyena once...but it was the uncatchable one at the beginning of Ruby version.

Deceit January 6th, 2013 8:52 PM

My worst experience was finding a shiny Electrike in Ruby, which didn't get captured in my only great ball. Made me sooo angry. I also kind of liked Manectric back then, so it was really sad.

Urugamosu January 6th, 2013 8:58 PM

Probably finding a shiny Zigzagoon, but thinking it was normal, and just running. Worst mistake I ever made. Tears are shed from the memory.

Zapperz January 6th, 2013 11:45 PM

The first shiny I found in B/W was the Patrat Prof.Juniper caught at the first route. :(

Turnip January 7th, 2013 3:04 PM

I caught a legit shiny Numel on Emerald, but I'd already cheated for a full team of shiny legendaries...
Kind of ruined the legitimacy of it all, and I never used it :(

IStreamSandwich January 7th, 2013 3:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Zapperz (Post 7475411)
The first shiny I found in B/W was the Patrat Prof.Juniper caught at the first route. :(

Is that even possible ? I just dont see it .

skyluigi2 January 9th, 2013 1:02 AM

I've never had any bad shiny experiences.
...Of course, to have a bad shiny experience, you actually have to have a shiny experience... :(

Arlo~ January 12th, 2013 2:41 PM

My dad's girlfriend got her first pokemon game a week ago.
I was SO expecting her to find a shiny and not catch it.

She did, however, catch loads of Purrloins and yesterday say to me "I didn't know you had to train your pokemon. I thought you just caught them."

Sableye~ January 13th, 2013 4:38 PM

Wandering around on Diamond version. I was on that route between Jubilife and Oreburgh (ahaha probably spelled those wrong because I don't pay enough attention). Then boom encountered my first shiny.

A Bidoof.

I didn't really care but caught it anyway. Then forgot I had him/her and deleted the save file. x: Lost my first shiny darn it.

DavidtheDeadPhilosopher January 15th, 2013 3:38 AM

I have not encountered a shiny since Gen 2 Days....
The one Shiny I have seen was in Fire red but it was one of the Battle Tower trainer's Meowths >_>

Although this is not something that happened to me personally, I would still count this as a "bad shiny experience"

A friend of mine was playing one of the Core Gen 3 Games (I can't remember which one of the top of my head) and managed to catch a shiny Electrike. His friend though it would be absolutely hilarious to rip the Gameboy out of his hands, and shut the game off before he had a chance to save it. He hasn't even encountered a Shiny since.

Rodriguezjames55 January 15th, 2013 3:55 AM

running into a shiny seaking in the safari zone guess what it ran away it looked like it was in a fire spin when i encountered it :(

thedestinedblade January 21st, 2013 12:51 PM

The one that got away. :'( Encountered a shiny Lillipup at the beginning of a new game I started on my White version and only had 3 poke balls at the time. I was too scared to actually damage it, and wasn't able to catch it in 3 tries and failed.

Luckily a shiny Gothita I encountered last month made up for that, lol.

obiwan362 January 22nd, 2013 8:01 AM

I wish I could remember the generation (I think it was II) or the Pokemon, but the first shiny I saw I didn't know what was going on. It was a weak Pokemon that I had already caught for my Pokedex. Since I didn't realize what a shiny Pokemon was...I just killed it and took the experience. You can imagine how I felt when I realized what a shiny was. :(

Schwan January 22nd, 2013 10:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vaporeon7 (Post 7471800)
I've had many bad shiny experiences.

#1: Shiny Rattata in Gold, no Pokédex yet.
#2: Shiny Jolteon in the Battle Pyramid in Emerald.
#3: Shiny Metagross in the Battle Tower in Ruby.
#4: Shiny Combee... male shiny Combee.

I lol'd at the Combee one. Not at your misfortune, but just how unlucky that circumstance is.

The only bad experience with a shiny that I ever had was in Ruby, I ran into a green Golbat while grinding my Crobat. Low and behold, nothing to catch it with. -_-

jfuze174 January 22nd, 2013 11:06 AM

My worst shiney moment was tryna catch the silver rattatta in pokemon gold (original) off pallet town it was level 5 yet breaking out of all the poke balls and all if my pokemon were too strong to hit it

Golurks Were Meant to Fly January 22nd, 2013 12:15 PM

My worst moment would have to be when I found a shiny mienfoo. I had been hunting for days at Dragonspiral tower, and had looked away... and saw the blue pokemon...

As I was running away. I checked my pokedex to confirm it, and sure enough, I had missed it :(

PlatinumDude January 22nd, 2013 5:23 PM

Fled from a shiny Sableye in Sapphire, a shiny Shellder in FireRed and a shiny Machop in LeafGreen.

piefara January 23rd, 2013 1:37 AM

mixed feeling about this white forest wild pidgy SHINY POKERUS shame it was just a pidgy
but thats not it back in gen. II my rivals tododile was SHINY WHAT THE #### was not shiny when i looked at it NIIIIIIIICK!!!!!!!!! GAMEFREAK >(

annikaprue January 23rd, 2013 7:17 AM

I'm not sure if this counts, but I ALMOST ran away from a shiny Unown in my Ruby Destiny Reign of Legends ROM. I still shiver at the thought that I was about press B on 'RUN' before I realized that the Unown was blue.

Correspondence January 23rd, 2013 7:25 AM

I have the worst past with shinies.I can usually can catch them but i forget to save for some reason.Has happened to me three times./gets shot.

kevcrash January 23rd, 2013 7:31 AM

When I encountered a shiny Pidove in a nuzlocke challenge, but it wasn't the first Pokemon that I saw there ;;

I almost caught it anyways, but of course the crit hax came to bite me.

Matzeho1996 January 23rd, 2013 7:37 AM

While I'm doing Nuzlockes Shiny Pokes can't die for me
But if course, when I was lucky enough to find one i critted it

Corvus of the Black Night January 23rd, 2013 8:40 AM

Pokemon Diamond - Chain of 54 Abras.

Shiny.

Teleport.

djafldsjfadsjsdklfjsd

Chaos Fork January 23rd, 2013 2:40 PM

Shiny rabuta berry...I mean basculin
Wild basculin used final gambit!

What. WHAAAAAAAAA

Sweets Witch January 23rd, 2013 5:32 PM

I found a shiny Shellos in Pearl and couldn't catch it because I had just used my last Poke Ball to catch a Buizel.

hughes January 30th, 2013 7:24 PM

I don't believe I have ever encountered a Shiny that wasn't meant to be there (i.e. Shiny Haxorus, Gyarados, etc), but over the semester break I tried chaining for the first time. I got some fairly long chains, mainly with Shinx or Stantler, but it always broke. Once my chain was broken by Azelf. Now that was annoying.

Autaven January 31st, 2013 5:11 AM

Catching a shiny Tentacool... has to be one of the Pokemon I hate the most xP

Seth Rollins January 31st, 2013 5:58 AM

Shiny Tentacool...I had only one Great ball, tried tocatch the Tentacool with it, but it didn't work.

dungeonmaster201 February 3rd, 2013 11:34 AM

I have had three bad shiney experiences, the 1st was in gen 2 when the rival had a shiney totodile, and again in gen 3 with emerald with the ralts/ and the was a third, the man who teaches to catch a pokemon in the remakes of RBY was shiney.

LyokoGirl5000 February 4th, 2013 1:30 PM

On Iron Island with the guy I'm supposed to help. His Pokemon knocked out a shiny Graveler. I was so mad!

Eeveelution Co-ordinator February 4th, 2013 1:41 PM

Mine was when I was in the Bug Catching Contest on HG, and found a Shiny Metapod, when I ran out of Park Balls and was called back...

ChocolateCrunch February 5th, 2013 12:53 PM

Worst shiny experience: My rival had a shiny Oshawott (Hugh) so I restarted my game. He then had another shiny Snivy this time. It was so annoying, why couldn't I get a shiny?!

fenyx4 February 5th, 2013 2:04 PM

Geez, this thread is such a depressing read at times; I feel so bad for all of these Shiny Pokemon mishaps, as well as Trainers who have never even seen/encountered a Shiny Pokemon.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dragonmage (Post 7471592)
The ONLY shiny pokemon I've ever seen in the wild is a Ralts. Do you want to know where? It was the one Wally caught in Emerald. -_- You heard me. I had to fight a shiny Gardevoir the rest of the game. I wanted to cry when I saw that thing.
What's your worst experience with a shiny Pokemon?
Just for the record, I challenge anyone to come up with anything worse than what happened to me. Hahahaha.

Wow; that's so sad...I take it that you don't rebattle him, even for the experience? :P

Quote:

Originally Posted by johnny18 (Post 7471820)
My worst shiny experience is when I met a shiny Stantler. I was RNG abused the two roamers Raikou and Entei. I'm about to RNG a Latios, then this shiny stantler comes up. Seriously, right after I caught my RNGed Raikou just to test if i get it right :(. I ended up catching both raikou and entei and could not rng my latios at all since if I want to RNG it, i need both raikou and entei.

Yikes. :<

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cerberus87 (Post 7472392)
It was a shiny Hoothoot in Eterna Forest in Platinum, but I was with that girl with the Chansey so two wild Pokémon appeared at the same time. Stupid girl KOed the Pokémon I attacked, and my Pokémon attacked the Hoothoot instead, killing it.

Quote:

Originally Posted by LyokoGirl5000 (Post 7523990)
On Iron Island with the guy I'm supposed to help. His Pokemon knocked out a shiny Graveler. I was so mad!

I'm guessing you two are referring to Stat Trainers..? These guys seem to be ruining a lot of people's shiny Pokemon experiences... XD

Quote:

Originally Posted by obiwan362 (Post 7504872)
I wish I could remember the generation (I think it was II) or the Pokemon, but the first shiny I saw I didn't know what was going on. It was a weak Pokemon that I had already caught for my Pokedex. Since I didn't realize what a shiny Pokemon was...I just killed it and took the experience. You can imagine how I felt when I realized what a shiny was. :(

Aww D:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Corvidae (Post 7506496)
Pokemon Diamond - Chain of 54 Abras.

Shiny.

Teleport.

djafldsjfadsjsdklfjsd

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chaos Fork (Post 7506881)
Shiny rabuta berry...I mean basculin
Wild basculin used final gambit!

What. WHAAAAAAAAA

I'm always worried about the day coming where I find a shiny Pokemon that has an easy way to flee or self-inflict the Faint status, most notably in the Safari Zone or something. >.<


Quote:

Originally Posted by ChocolateCrunch (Post 7525117)
Worst shiny experience: My rival had a shiny Oshawott (Hugh) so I restarted my game. He then had another shiny Snivy this time. It was so annoying, why couldn't I get a shiny?!

:cer_laugh:

As for me, I'm grateful to have at least encountered multiple Shiny Pokemon, and catching my first one, at that. However, my worst shiny experience is probably losing every single shiny Pokemon I've owned, TWICE (or possibly even THRICE, since I've lost 2 cartidges and 1 save file). The first instance is when I lost my Sapphire cartridge, which contained my first Shiny Pokemon ever, a shiny Golbat (from Meteor Falls, IIRC). :( I lost a second Sapphire cartridge as well, but I can't remember whether any shiny Pokemon were there, too. I know for a fact that I've had a shiny Golbat on one of the two Sapphire cartridges, though.

The second (or maybe third) instance is when my Emerald save file got deleted (from what I can tell, this was purely due to the cartridge accidentally jiggling/joggling while I was saving right before a Secret Base battle; no cheating devices have been used on the Emerald cartridge). If memory serves correctly, I had a shiny Fearow (traded over from FireRed and a shiny Surskit (which I hatched in Emerald). Instead of recovering the previous save file, the game goes and tells me "The save file has been deleted due to corruption or damage.", at which point I basically cried. In my current Emerald save file, I have a Shiny Whismur from Desert Underpass (which is the only Shiny Pokemon I currently own/can prove the existence of, for now), so I guess that's something. :/

My other "worst Shiny experience" is encountering a foe Shiny Kingdra in Hoenn's Battle Tower, encountering a foe Shiny Ampharos in Hoenn's Battle Factory (which I owned for a while when I swapped for it :P), and being offered a Shiny Charmeleon at the start of a Hoenn Battle Factory run (which I selected, of course). The reason these are bad Shiny experiences is because I can't outright own the Pokemon in question...the Battle Factory examples are probably worse, since I get teased with the Pokemon and can only own them for up to seven battles. XD T_T

Other than the above, I'm constantly paranoid of encountering a Shiny Pokemon (shiny starter Pokemon, Birch's foe Poochyena, Wally's Ralts, etc.) whenever I temporarily start a new game/save file. I grapple with the question of whether or not I would consider restarting my 900+-hour save file just for a shiny Pokemon (most likely, it would have to be 2 Shiny Pokemon, or a Shiny Pokemon I like more than Shiny Whismur). The stories I'm reading in this thread aren't helping matters any. XD

dragonfly_dust February 7th, 2013 2:29 PM

I remember playing Emerald, all I had to do was get Rayquaza. I saved my masterball for this moment so I didn't have to train and level up my pokemon for the occasion.

However...surfing my way to the island...a shiny level 10 Wingull popped up. All pokemons I had with me could crushed it in one hit so I had to use my masterball...on a useless level 10 pokemon with a lax nature all because of the color palette.

I was ungratefully unhappy that day...CURSES!!!

Chaos Fork February 7th, 2013 3:37 PM

All right, I don't actually legitimately own any shiny pokes yet. Not counting the red gyarados, everyone has that. But I remember the time where I was in pearl (by far my LEAST favorite pokemon game) and the first battle was on.
Shiny Starly.
Start of the game.
No pokeballs.

Hikamaru February 7th, 2013 11:11 PM

Another worst Shiny experience for me was when I was playing my brother's Diamond, and caught 3 shinies. Not kidding you know, 3 of them.

Unfortunately, one of them was a silly Unown. Yes, an Unown (U Form to be specific). I was happy it was Shiny, but I hate Unown in general.

Inferna February 8th, 2013 4:10 AM

I caught a shiny Wurmple, which evolved into Dustox in Diamond but my little brother deleted the save file and it was lost :c I caught it in a double battle in Eterna forest, I had to kill Chansey before it killed the Wurmple x3

KingSquirtle February 8th, 2013 4:45 AM

Only ever met on shiny besides gyarados despite playing for years and years. Also a shiny ralts. But in platinum. Saw it beside... Hearthome? Yeah. I forget sinnoh's city names cuz quite frankly I don't know how to pronounce 80% of them xD (heart-home? Hearth-ome?) anyways back on topic. I had dialga at the front of my party and it was like a lvl 17 ralts. I switched to the only party member I had near its level, my lvl 18 bibarel, and freak teleported instantly. I completely forgot to expect this. So I was mad and sad as idk what (it was male and I didn't have a gallade yet not either a psychic or fighting type on my team so it would have been perfect) but no. Teleport. I'll never forget that moment. Also it counts as my best shiny experience xD

icycatelf February 8th, 2013 3:38 PM

I've had pretty good luck with shinies. I've found and captured at least 1 shiny on each of my games. However, the saddest moment involving a shiny Pokémon was when I encountered a shiny Graveler in Pearl Version that used Explosion. It wasn't the first shiny I found on that game (my first was Gastly), but it was the first time ever that a shiny had slipped through my fingers. I wanted to cry! However, less than 10 minutes later, I found a shiny Machoke and caught it, so that made things a little better.

Next to that was a shiny Quagsire I found in Platinum's Great Marsh that fled. I love Quagsire and would've loved to have a purple one. ;_;

SoulSilver10112 February 9th, 2013 7:20 PM

Critical hit on a shiny Sealeo, then a bit later, encountered two Bronzors in Wayward cave: One shiny, the other not, I knocked out the non shiny, and then Mira ko'd the shiny bronzor... in one hit!

EJ February 9th, 2013 9:58 PM

After reading a bunch of these posts I feel quite special for having caught all three shinies I've run into.

leaves thread

pokemanmdj February 9th, 2013 10:09 PM

Worst shiny experience...
Well, I haven't run innto a whole lot of shiny's, but my third time running into one was awful.

In Emerald, I was fighting Registeel. Surprise surprise, it was shiny. I tried my hardest to catch it (you have no clue ><) but in the end, it struggled itself to death.
Ah.

heyo February 9th, 2013 10:45 PM

Worst shiny experience? I have two; one happened to me and the other happened to my friend.

What happened to me actually started out as the best shiny experience ever. I started a new game on my Crystal version for fun, and ended up saving over my old file because the day care gave me an egg that hatched into a shiny Tyrogue. I managed to get that thing into a level 40 Hitmonchan, which was my best friend at the time. Then, one day, while I was playing it at a summer camp program, a kid took my Gameboy from me, released my Hitmonchan, and saved the game. I cried for two days.

What happened to my friend had me laughing for two days. One day, he was playing his Crystal version at my house, and managed to find and catch a shiny Krabby. He evolved it into a Kingler, and was really happy because it learned Guillotine. Then, my other friend threw a pillow at him. This pillow, which was tossed very lightly into his direction, had slightly hit his Gameboy in his hand. This caused the game to restart, and somehow delete his save file.

RenegadeClyde February 10th, 2013 10:41 AM

Shiny Wingull: I just started the game and picked my starter pokémon. I was on my way to find and battle may, and guess what I've found. Yep, no pokéballs. Trough I've found ANOTHER one later in the game and catched it.

Shiny Electrode: Awww yeah! I've found a shiny electrode! Let me find my pokéballs... "Electrode used SELFDESTRUCT!"...T-T.

heyo February 10th, 2013 11:25 AM

Actually, this just happened to me right now.
http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff378/chrisy5/BADWORD_zps8d6afb73.png
And I don't even have my Pokedex yet.

Ammako February 10th, 2013 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by heyo (Post 7531952)
Actually, this just happened to me right now.
http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff378/chrisy5/BADWORD_zps8d6afb73.png
And I don't even have my Pokedex yet.

Personally, I'd have used a cheat to add Pokéballs to my bag while in the battle.

fenyx4 February 12th, 2013 10:33 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pokemanmdj (Post 7531303)
Worst shiny experience...
Well, I haven't run innto a whole lot of shiny's, but my third time running into one was awful.

In Emerald, I was fighting Registeel. Surprise surprise, it was shiny. I tried my hardest to catch it (you have no clue ><) but in the end, it struggled itself to death.
Ah.

Ouch. :x

Quote:

Originally Posted by heyo (Post 7531341)
Worst shiny experience? I have two; one happened to me and the other happened to my friend.

What happened to me actually started out as the best shiny experience ever. I started a new game on my Crystal version for fun, and ended up saving over my old file because the day care gave me an egg that hatched into a shiny Tyrogue. I managed to get that thing into a level 40 Hitmonchan, which was my best friend at the time. Then, one day, while I was playing it at a summer camp program, a kid took my Gameboy from me, released my Hitmonchan, and saved the game. I cried for two days.

What happened to my friend had me laughing for two days. One day, he was playing his Crystal version at my house, and managed to find and catch a shiny Krabby. He evolved it into a Kingler, and was really happy because it learned Guillotine. Then, my other friend threw a pillow at him. This pillow, which was tossed very lightly into his direction, had slightly hit his Gameboy in his hand. This caused the game to restart, and somehow delete his save file.

Oh gosh, that first situation is just horrible. :< (and that is exactly why I have to monitor anyone playing my Pokemon games, for fear of something happening to my shiny Pokemon, let alone the rest of them. :S)

As for the second situation, that had me laughing quite a bit (and I can speak from experience because, as mentioned in my previous post in this thread, the same thing happened to me, only I didn't get a pillow thrown/tossed at me. :P :cer_laugh:) Those GameBoy game files must be a bit fragile/delicate if a mere pillow can cause a game restart and file deletion...

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Originally Posted by heyo (Post 7531952)
Actually, this just happened to me right now.
http://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff378/chrisy5/BADWORD_zps8d6afb73.png
And I don't even have my Pokedex yet.

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Originally Posted by Pingouin7 (Post 7531969)
Personally, I'd have used a cheat to add Pokéballs to my bag while in the battle.

Wow. :o I didn't even know there was a cheat to modify Bag items while engaged in battle (on VisualBoyAdvance, that is...).

heyo February 16th, 2013 9:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Pingouin7 (Post 7531969)
Personally, I'd have used a cheat to add Pokéballs to my bag while in the battle.

I'm not a big fan of cheating, although I did hack the game to change my starter to Pichu. Luckily, once I beat the game on this file, I started another file with Tyrogue and found a shiny Rattata that I caught.

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Originally Posted by fenyx4 (Post 7535219)
Wow. :o I didn't even know there was a cheat to modify Bag items while engaged in battle (on VisualBoyAdvance, that is...).

You can use any Gameshark code on VisualBoyAdvance. You can also use CodeBreaker or GameGenie codes, but I've never even heard of those before.

ProfessorJoltz February 18th, 2013 9:51 AM

Shiny Male Combee. I cried myself to sleep and stained my DS screen.

atie February 18th, 2013 12:06 PM

some classics classic, first shiny pokemon:Nidoran F in safari zone ._.
2nd Shiny Tauros, Safari zone....
3rd Shiny heracross, Safari zone
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THE WORST
Shiny Rayquaza in emerald: killed my underleveld team...

Even Today I hate myself for believing in the stupid theory "Keep a Masterball for a week in you PC and you'll get 99"

Twiddle February 22nd, 2013 2:26 PM

Shiny Taillow in Route 104, had spent the 5 Pokéballs earlier. ;-;

Zero Percent February 22nd, 2013 4:40 PM

Worst? My whole time I played FireRed. I was very young, and had no way of getting onto the internet, so I didn't know what a shiny was.

Anyway, I started it out, normal game. I was like, "Hmm, what starter.. lets choose this water turtle thing." It was shiny. I kid you not. My first ever pokemon was a shiny, and you know what I did? Restarted the game. I thought it was a glitch, and I said something like: "Dude, stars? What the heck.." So I reset my game and chose a Charmander. I played a bit, and got to Viridian Forest, and a Weedle poisoned me. It was also shiny. I was mad that it poisoned me, so I ran. I ran into a few others I can't remember well.

This is pretty much why I became a shiny hunter. I don't want my stupidness to run away from another shiny again.

Nothing Is Real February 23rd, 2013 1:15 PM

I found a shiny Raticate in Gen II (can't remember if it was Gold, Silver or Crystal). I'm pretty sure I didn't catch it because I ran out of balls, but I didn't really care since Raticate is pretty useless in later battles anyways.

PlatinumDude February 23rd, 2013 1:27 PM

I had 4 shinies in Platinum (Roselia, Sneasel, Marill, Blissey) and another in HeartGold (Mewtwo). Unfortunately, I lost both games.

Iny Gage February 23rd, 2013 11:25 PM

Well, I personally haven't had any bad shiny moments but my brother had a really bad one.

My brother has NEVER caught a shiny pokemon before... I had 4, so he got frustrated and looked up how to use the Pokeradar after I told him he could potentially use that to get a shiny (All mine were found with pure luck). first couple times he failed but the 3rd one he got up to like a 50 streak on mightyenas. Eventually he found a shiny one and he was ecstatic.

Here is how the fight went

First he switched out of his killer Pokemon into a false swiper.
He used false swipe.
He threw an ultra ball that failed.
Mightyena used roar

All motivation was crushed in that moment.

Jolteon82☆ March 6th, 2013 4:24 PM

Found a shiny Mr. mime in soul silver's safari zone, and it RAN THE FRICK AWAY!

B-L-A-Z-E March 6th, 2013 7:30 PM

Shiny Snorlax in Fire Red with no Pokeballs.

TwilightBlade March 6th, 2013 7:42 PM

In Crystal on the cycling path near Celadon, I ran into a shiny Grimer. Yay! I use one weak attack to get her into yellow health. Grimer flees. WHAT/ THEDDWS EKDS WHYYY I don't visit the Safari Zone out of fear of having a shiny flee. Who designs this stuff?

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Certain wild Pokémon can escape from battle. Pokémon that are legendary or found in the region's Safari Zone are the only ones who flee.

In Pokémon Gold, Silver, and Crystal, a few species of wild Pokémon can escape from battle. These Pokémon are more likely to be caught in a Fast Ball.
Low probability:
Magnemite
Grimer
Tangela
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@Dragonmage: At least in Emerald and with your original save file where you saw Wally's blue Ralts, if you run into a shiny (for example) 43.67 seconds in the game upon boot up, you will always run into a shiny at 43.67 seconds upon boot up. The RNG is broken like that and can be abused without knowing the technical stuff. I'm fortunate enough to have my shiny frame appear in 40 seconds, rather than something like 3 hours from boot up.

Emilia1234 March 7th, 2013 11:26 AM

The only shiny I've ever encountered, in my seven years of playing Pokemon, was a random, non-radar Roselia while EV-training my Gardevoir. The DS ran out of battery.

d00bt00b March 11th, 2013 9:17 AM

I was Soft-Resetting for a shiny starter on Pokemon Ruby and found a shiny Poochyena, and the only other I ever saw was a shiny Slugma in Pokemon Emerald, and all I had was like four Pokeballs... I didn't catch it.

Cyclone March 12th, 2013 8:09 PM

I've only seen three Shinies, and none at inopportune times. Shiny Nincada in Emerald (successful catch, now the one I am cloning for trades), and two Shiny Audinos in White 2 (how I ended up with a second chance at a Shiny Audino I'll never figure out). The first Shiny Audino, as you might be able to tell, got away; my first attack ended up being a crit. and down it went. Thankfully, I was able to catch the second without difficulty, so I haven't really missed out on anything Shiny.

Cyclone

silvereyes March 13th, 2013 8:09 AM

I can't really recall any bad shiny expriences. I do have a story of my friend running around bragging about his shiny sandshrew when we were doing a challenge speedrun of SoulSilver, but he shut up about it when I found a shiny koffing in burned tower ;)

Shiny Celebi March 13th, 2013 8:27 AM

Well, there was one time I chained a shiny Budew. I got it at 6 on the chain, which does not happen often(there's a quite low chance of a shiny patch there, but I found one) I caught it and named it. I went and started another chain of Skitty and got it up to the 30's well, the chain then broke. I was so mad I turned off the DS. Now, this is what makes the experience bad: Id forgotten to save after catching the Budew. I think you can imagine how mad I was after that.

Xilfer March 13th, 2013 9:38 AM

Shiny Rhyhorn in the Safari Zone on SS. Rage quit after losing it. 'Nuff said.

CrowSvenson March 15th, 2013 4:05 AM

Shiny Rayquaza in Emerald. I had no balls with me. Yeah...
Then there was that shiny Electrode in the Rocket Hideout in SS...

lazy~ March 15th, 2013 11:41 AM

I chained a Roselia with the Pokeradar back in platinum only to end up accidentally running from it. I've never made another attempt at finding another shiny since that day.

Da7kmagician March 15th, 2013 1:14 PM

I've been playing since R/S and played every game to the end after that (excluding B2/W2) and have never seen a shiny! I got shiny Entei with the pre-HG/SS event but that's it! The worst thing is when i got my cousin to play Sapphire she got a shiny on about her 3rd badge whiile I was helping her. Poképroblems :(

Alakazam17 March 16th, 2013 6:41 AM

I can think of two bad shiny experiences. One comes from Emerald, where I encountered a shiny in the Battle Pyramid. And the second came from Silver, where I found a shiny Tangela only to see it flee on the first chance it had. ;_;

Fortunately my good experiences outweigh those two, so I'm not too upset.

sab March 16th, 2013 7:45 AM

The only wild shiny I have ever seen (aside from the garydos and the egg from the daycare center) was the first wild pokemon I fought in gsc. I had literally just stepped outside of newbark, into the grass after getting my cyndaquil and I saw a shiny. It sucked... after nearly 2k hours of pokmon playing, I still have yet to see another legit shiny.

Pokemanz March 20th, 2013 9:14 AM

The worst shiny experience I've had recently was a shiny tangela in pokemon black or white version... not sure which one though

Demon Days March 23rd, 2013 3:00 PM

The only Shiny Pokémon I've ever encountered was a Tentacool on Ruby.
I caught it, but then a few months later I restarted.
I cry myself to sleep every night


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