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Have you found any shinies in 3rd gen?
I was playing a Emerald ROM on my Android Phone - and I came across a shiny Shuppet!
Named her Shine, and I was very surprised considering how hard it is to find them in previous generations... just a shame I can't trade her. I evolved her and she's now in my team. http://i60.*.com/6i63pc.png Have you found any 3rd gen shinies recently, or ever for that matter? |
I can recall two that i've found in the Generation III games:
One was a shiny Gastly in Firered, which was nice even though the physical/special split wasn't around then. I never got to transfer it to another game though. Another was a shiny Mawile I found in Emerald way back, in Victory Road while I was training for the league. It's now in my main Platinum version. |
Back when I had LeafGreen I caught a Shiny Gastly. I had to contain my childish excitement(I was like 12) because it was way after bedtime anyway(Why was I in Lavender Town past my bedtime?). I didn't have any Pokemon friends back then so I never got a Shiny Gengar, though. I lost the game so I never was able to transfer it years later.
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My first shiny was in gen 3 actually! It was a shiny Sunkern that I found in Emerald. Nothing special but I love it so much because it was my first :]
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My first was an Electrike at Route 110 on either Ruby or Emerald, it was years back so I don't have the game anymore. A couple of months ago though I ran into a shiny Oddish in the Safari Zone on my Sapphire Version, I ended up catching it and it's in a box now. I do plan to EV train it and transfer it later after I'm done with my other play throughs in Emerald.
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In third-gen games, I've encountered only about four to five shinies. One of them was Zigzagoon, which I was able to capture pretty easily. Another was Onix, but couldn't catch it, though, as I didn't have any Poké Balls with me at that time. :(
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a Shiny Gastly in Emerald
a Shiny Zubat in Ruby a Shiny Graveler in Fire Red. |
A long time ago I found a shiny Sneasel in Icefall Cave, but I had no Pokeballs :( I wanted to cry
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I have found 3 shiny zubats in all three of my files in third gen
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I had a Shiny Venomoth in FireRed without realizing. It was when I was a kid and the little glisten that a shiny does was just confusing and I didn't know what it meant until later on :P
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Yes! I've found Wurmple that evolved to Dustox, Whismur that became an Exploud, Volbeat, and then a Rattata in my LeafGreen. All random encounters. :3
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Damn!
This topic made me want to play Gen 3 again. Anyway, I played Gen 3 A LOT, so of course I found shinies. Random encounters, breeding, and even special encounters, like interaction with a Pokemon. I found shinies in all of the above. Random encounters: A lot. Breeding: Swinub (Swinoob), Treecko, Torchic, Mudkip, Growlithe, and Larvitar. Special encounters: Snorlax, Zapdos, Groudon, and Rayquaza. |
I'm getting leafgreen next week and oh boy im going to softreset the **** out of it so i'll get a shiny starter. Dunno wich one? Squirtle or bulbasaur?
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I've found all my shinies in 3rd gen. I've found Poochyena, Swablu, Caterpie, Volbeat, and I found a Tentacool in a FireRed rom a few months ago. Safe to say I know where my shiny luck is. :p
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I can add another shiny to the list now, I just found a blue Ditto in my Emerald as I was collecting the other fossil! xD
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4 out of the 6 shiny Pokemon that I've ever encountered in the Pokemon games have actually been in the 3rd generation, though I've only had the opportunity to catch two of them.
Of the two I didn't catch, one was a Paras in the Safari Zone (I didn't deserve to catch it), and the other was a shiny Weedle... in the Pokemon catching tutorial by the old man in Viridian. The two that I did catch both came from Sapphire, and were a shiny Shroomish (now a Breloom), and a shiny Heracross. Both are currently on my HeartGold, though I rarely use them. |
I found a shiny swinub in Icefall Cave that I put on to my Diamond version. Then I restarted it without trading.
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I got a shiny tropius (Emerald). Was the oddest moment of my life. Sadly I started a new game without really caring about it.
That was the only shiny I've gotten. |
I remember a shiny Geodude and Oddish in Ruby ^^ never used them though... Didn't want a female Geodude or a grass type on my team. And I reset the game not long after ;;
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Yeah i have found one only one. I forgot what it was.... as i encountered it when i was a kid. But i didn't knew what it was.....
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Yeah the only randomly encountered one i found was on emerald. A shiny lotad that is now a shiny ludicolo on my team
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i never encountered any in 3rd gen, but i did find a 3rd gen shiny on my platinum. it was a surskit which is now on my x version is a part of my team. it was the first shiny i ever got and i love it so much.
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I've encountered a lot of shinies in Gen III... The first shiny I ever got, as a kid, was a Heracross from Leaf Green. Sadly, I deleted the file that had the Heracross... I had no idea just how important a shiny really was! I also managed to get a shiny Poochyena and Pikachu in Emerald; I don't have those anymore, either. I wonder what happened to them...
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The only shiny to date, was a Carvanha at route 118 I think. I was surprised, but I managed to catch it.
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I found two shinies in my Sapphire version: Geodude and Numel. I kept Numel for my team, because I liked the blue variation it had; Geodude I left in my PC. I really didn't understand what exactly I had found at that time, lol.
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I was playing a Sapphire ROM and I ran into a Shiny Poochyena IN THE BEGINNING OF THE GAME WHEN I HAD NO POKÉBALLS.
I was not happy. Also one time I was playing Sapphire and the Poochyena chasing Prof. Birch was shiny. >:I Seriously not amused. |
I have 400+ hours on my FireRed, and I never saw a single shiny...I found a shiny in my Emerald within 2 hours. It's just down to luck really :/
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I have met a few shinies in my time.. here's the list
!) Meowth 2) Vulpix 3)Golbat 4)Nincanda |
GOT A SHINY MUDKIP ON RUBY AFTER 132 S/R!!!
(previous hunt took well over 5000 S/R's yielding 4 shiny Poochyenas at the beginning fight, but no Mudkip |
I found a shiny geodude in my FireRed. It ran away from me...
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I once got a shiny Charmander as my starter in fire red, didn't have to keep reseting for it either, got it first time xD
Don't know if rom hacks count but I caught a Shiny Vulpix in Pokemon Fuligin (after about 2 hours of running around in grass) and then caught a shiny Trapinch an hour later when level grinding :3 I named them Mozilla and Cynthia, and they helped me tear through the E4 xD |
I remember before I even knew about PokeCommunity, EV'ing, or the idea of shiny pokemon, I had started up a game and accidentally got a shiny Torchic. I was absolutely confused as to what the bloody heck was going on with my game; I actually thought the game had malfunctioned. Luckily though, I had the brilliant idea of looking up my interesting discovery and I'm happy to say that to this day I still own my first ever shiny.
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I got my cute little shiny azurill. Still have him in my team :D
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did find a shiny graveler in magma hidout in emerald, but it use selfdestruct and fainted..... :(
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The only shiny I found was in FireRed. It was an Oddish, and I did catch it but I didn't really care much about shinies back then.
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I seen a shiny geodude gong through the sevi islands in my fire red. It ran away.
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All the shinies I've gotten (except for 3) were in 3rd gen. I got a shiny Taillow yesterday in Ruby, and I got a shiny Cacnea today in the same game.
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I got my Poke Balls from Oak and went out to Route 1 and there was this shiny Pidgey waiting for me... second encounter.
I'm not lying. I know there's a meme of sorts about that thing but I LEGIT caught a shiny Pidgey. It's now on my X game as a Pidgeot. That was my first non-Gyarados shiny ever. I also caught a shiny Smeargle and a shiny Phanpy on Expert Emerald, but that's a hack so... |
The only shiny I ever found was a Voltorb in New Mauville, and that was before I knew what shinies were. I took it out. >.<
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I remember that I saw a shiny Spinda, didn't know about shinies at the time so it just caught it, then released it later on for some reason.
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sadly, no but i'm currently undergoing the hunt for my shiny torchic, im currently at 1,300 soft resets
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I remember being really disappointed in my game cartridges because I was never able to find a shiny pokemon, but in my time using the ROM's i've ran into hundreds of legit shiny pokemon, I wish my luck would carry over onto those cartridges lol.
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I remember catching a shiny gloom in my game, but not only that, I also got pokerus... what are the chances! It seems unfair to me that some people never come across these things in their playthroughs. I feel it should be that when you rack up a certain amount of time that you're guaranteed to find at least ONE shiny.
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So there I was, happily playing Pokémon Emerald, minding my own business when I encounter a Poochyena. Not thinking much of it, I figured: 'Hey it's just another Poochyena.' until I spotted the color. The Poochyena was green. I wasn't sure if my eyes were playing tricks on me or if I had really encountered something special. So I caught it. There didn't seem to be anything special about it though. (then again, I was still a noob at Pokémon games and had no clue about shinies or anything like that).
To be honest, I'm still not entirely sure if I was going nuts or not. Have any of you found green Poochyenas? Unfortunately, I don't have the Poochyena with me anymore. =( |
I found shiny zubat in Ruby few days ago - and I found a lot of shiny pidgeys in FireRed and LeafGreen xD Too bad that I could never use them since I always found them while doing some kinda challenge on the game - and I couldn't trade them either :(
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I managed to find a shiny Slakoth while I was walking through Petalburg Woods. It was pretty cool since this was at school. Sadly this was the only shiny I managed to find in Generation 3. :(
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Well, when I saw my first shiny Pokemon in the wild (LG) it was a pidgey that i found right before MT moon and i was so terrified that i saved the game and caught that pidgey, I even relesed the pidgey I had bafore I saw that shiny one and right after catching it, I sent an email to my Pokemaniac (and brony) cousin and I told him I saw a wierd green pidgey in the wild... LOL
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Yup my very first shiny; Shiny Milotic :D
Lol. I wish. Shiny Pidgey though :P |
All Legit Shinies Found and Caught in my Fire Red Version
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I remember seeing a shiny zigzaggoon but one hit KOed it never seen one since haha
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Absolutely none, sadly. Hoped for a shiny Sceptile.
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My first shiny I got, was a shiny Poochyena. I just walked in the first grass, after getting my starter Pokemon and the first 5 poke balls and caught it because it's awesome color. I didn't knew that it was special, because I didn't saw another Poochyena before, and infact I didn't realized the special shiny thing in the start of the battle. The end of the song is, that I caught it, but it stayed in my team, cause in that phase a wasn't that patient a it tools a loooooong time to grow up some levels ... Sadly I lost the game file through an accident ...
The last shiny was a tentacool. I hope I wrote the Pokemon right, but I'm more familiar with the German names ..:D |
Yes, quite a few. On accident usually.
The most common were Magikarps. Me and a friend had bet on who could fill 5 PC boxes with Magikarps first, so I eventually won, but in the process, I got 8 shinies. 5 Magikarps, then 3 Tentacools. |
Me personally, no. But when i first got Sapphire and my little brother had Ruby, he suddenly started freaking out one day, as he encountered a shiny Swablu. Back then, we had no clue what it meant, or that they were called shinies, but of course he caught it and put it on his team...the jealousy i felt that day...
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My first shiny was a ratata that I caught on the first route, in FRed, and a hoothoot somewhere else i forgot.
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Oh yeah! 3rd gen is the only gen I (sort of) shiny hunt on because the shinies are much more valuable. It's ALWAYS 1/8192. There's none of this Masuda method, Pokeradar chaining, red gyarados, shiny ditto trick, or any other stuff that increases the odds. I've only got a shiny Gulpin (E) and a shiny Snorlax (LG). My cousin SR'd and got shiny Mewtwo on Leaf Green. Right now I'm going for a shiny Kyogre in a Premier Ball on Sapphire.
Just thinking: Damn, that would suck to find a shiny in the Battle Pike or Battle Pyramid... I'm staying away from those places. |
Yes I have Some, They where Verry rare In gen 3 :D
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I'd first heard about shinies in this NintendoPower guide for FR/LG, but they called them "Alternately Colored Pokemon", even though most people referred to them as shiny Pokemon. Just to give you some idea of exactly how rare shinies are:
If you played a Gen III game and did nothing but run around in grass continuously looking for shinies, it would take on average about 45 hours to find one shiny, assuming you encounter about 3 pokemon per minute. 45 hours of gameplay spent on just walking around in grass for a shiny! Has anyone been successful with manipulating Emerald's RNG to obtain shinies? Do you believe this is cheating? |
I once saw a shiny Tyranitar when doing a randomized Nuzlocke, but didnt manage to catch it -.-
And thats the only shiny ive ever seen in Gen3...my brother has 5 on his FireRed...so jealous |
I have never actually found any shiny Pokemon in the 3rd gen Pokemon games. I never had the good odds.
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Found a shiny Zigzagoon, in my first time playing Emerald though I accidently killed it :( Then in Firered, I found a shiny Ratatta before I had any pokeballs. Bad luck with third gen shiny's :/
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I found two shiny Golbat (green) in a succession of thirty minutes or so in Victory Road. I caught both of them, but I felt it unfair that both the shinies should be the same Pokémon. Another time, when I was playing a slightly modified version of a Ruby ROM on an emulator, I got a purple shiny spheal that eventually evolved into Walrein, and I do think I have the ROM save somewhere, but it's on an emulator, so I'm not counting that.
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I only found one shiny in Gen III. It was a Geodude in Sapphire when I was younger. Sadly, I didn't have any balls :(
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The first shiny pokemon i've ever met was at FR and it was a meowth, because then i was a small kid i threw the master ball thinking it was impossible to catch because it was shiny. xD
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My first was a hariyama in pokemon emerald in victory road. Caught it but will prob never use it
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I found my first shiny in sapphire it was a zigzagoon, after him I found a shiny oddish. Both zigzagoon and oddish I found in sapphire while doing a challange so I couldn't use them.
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I remember finding a shiny sandshrew and a shiny skarmory on my pokemon emerald.
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Besides a shiny geodude which I caught and eventually transferred up to my Pokemon Black as a Golem, I've only seen one other shiny.
It was a Zigzagoon. More specifically the one that Wally uses to battle the wild Ralts with. ... Oh, you can bet that was depressing. I reset the game after throwing it at the wall. |
Yes I have yet I was so young at the time that I did the stupid thing and killed it
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Been playing for years and years, unfortunatley still waiting on my first shiny Pokemon :(
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I am going to get bunch of money using the team rocket grunt's nuggets (I can handle losing to that guy xyz times, because deep in my heart I know I am letting him win xD) and then I will keep buying all those Pokemon and soft resetting. Hopefully I'll get a shiny :D
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I did! it was a Sableye in emerald... :I i found it while i was going up rayquaza's tower. i had a hard time there and maybe the little fellow poked me due to pity... haha
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My first shiny was a Linoone at Route 119 while on the way to Fortree. I've encountered other shinies too, like Voltorb, Golbat and Tropius.
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My first time playing Emerald I caught a shiny Absol and a shiny Kecleon. But in the like 50+ times I've played it since then I haven't once caught or even seen a shiny pokemon :I
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My first and only shiny that I've caught in all my Pokemon games was a Poochyena in Sapphire I believe. <3
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My first shiny was a shiny Claydol in Pokemon black.I was about to fight Volcarona and then when I was about to walk up and fight it,a shiny Claydol appears.I caught it and gave it an awful nickname: WHAT?!?!?!.Yeah,I named it that because of the sheer surprise of encountering it.Thankfully,before transferring it to Pokemon X&Y,I renamed it Cosmo.
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Unfortunately not. :( I've always had bad luck when it comes to shinies. That's probably because I avoid wild encounters a lot, haha.
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Well, I played Fire Red a lot, so I caught lots of shinies too. I usually get them when I train before Elite Four at Victory Road. I remember, when I got 2 geodudes on my first playthrough lol :D. But the one that I'm most proud of was shiny Voltorb, man he looks so cool :D.
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I soft reseted for a shiny Scyther yesterday. gave up after 30 SRs lol.
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I haven't found any yet. Still waiting. There's a big chance I probably DID find a shiny in FireRed when I was 6 or 7 and fainted it in my childish obliviousness ;_;
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That shiny Fearow, I was kicking about in grass near Vermillion looking for a Drowzee and a shiny Spearow popped out. I started sweating nervously and looking about shiftily. I was on a bus at the time. |
I have: Charmander, Three Spearow, Pidgey, Nidoran M, Weedle, Eevee, Gastly, Clefairy, and Moltres in my FR for my BQ(only counted the first Spearow though).
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The first Shiny I ever saw was Seviper in Sapphire. At the time, I hadn't heard about shinies, and I ran away from it because I had already caught one. It was only when I first started learning more about Pokemon that I realised it was Shiny. I was such a noob back then. :')
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I've only found a shiny Seviper but because I was using my sister's game I never got to keep it as my own which is so unfair!!! @[email protected] I found it so I should keep it, but nooo, because it was on her game she ended up keeping it. She doesn't even give me a clone. ;__; (now that I think about it she found a shiny Swablu is the same place) :P
Oh yeah, I've found a shiny Spearow in FR on one of the islands. ^^ |
My first ever shiny was in Emerald :') Sableye. Not as good colour palette as it's non-shiny version. But I'll take whatever shiny is thrown at me. I nicknamed it 'Shiny'...
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I once found a shiny Clampearl on Emerald, which evolved it into a Gorebyss. I love the shiny palette on that thing. ;D
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In my fire red game i replayed recently i found a shiny tentacool and transferred it to my soul silver game.
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Back in FireRed, I went into the Viridian Forest and I saw a shiny Caterpie. After I got its health low enough, I went to get a Pokeball, only to find I had none. I was super pissed and to this day, I always make sure I have at least 50 regular Pokeballs with me at all times.
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A friend of mine traded me a shiny swablu a long time ago on my Emerald. I remember training it and evolving it, but not what happened to it :(
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In Emerald, I also came across a Shiny Whismur (It was my first shiny too), and I got it up to a Loudred, before I restarted the game, thinking I had sent it to D/P. Turns out I hadn't. |
OP - that's really cool because I hatched a shiny one on my first egg in X and named it Raziel, it's still on my team because it's my favorite ghost type.
Anyhow, I found a shiny Wingull on my Sapphire in 2009 while randomly surfing somewhere. I still have it! Also found a shiny Graveler that managed not to blow up on me in FR. |
I went shiny hatching a Pichu as a joke - and around twenty or so eggs later, I got one. My friend nearly strangled me, poor dude's been looking for a shiny since Gen 1.
I also found a shiny Raticate and Mankey in LG. The former was pure accident and the latter... was some weird intuition. I was doing a scramble challenge and going through the Rock Tunnel, getting pissed at the onslaught of Zubat. I was just about to use a repel when part of me went like "No but hey, dude, you've run into so many Zubat that what if you see a shiny one next?" Wasn't a Zubat, but Mankey'll do just as well. |
The only shiny I've ever found legitimately in a Pokemon game was in the 3rd generation actually, haha. It was on an emulator, and I was shocked to come across a shiny Aron in the cave outside Dewford Town. Of course, I had no Poke-balls in my bag. Searched online for a while in order to find any possible hacks that would put some into my inventory during the battle, but failed to find one, and didn't catch the Aron. :[
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Playing Ruby, I found only shiny Swablu's. I found one per play-though and I traded each over to LG to save them when I wanted to start a new game. I had accumulated 3 shiny Swablu's as if they were the only shinies in the cartridge.
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I caught a shiny Slowpoke in LeafGreen. It's almost the same color as the regular one :/ , in Gen 3 at least.
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Right now in my pokemon ruby game i have a shiny salamence a shiny flygon and a shiny sceptile and they were my 3 first lv 100 pokemons
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Sure have!
I think the second shiny I've ever found was Absol in my Emerald version. I can't remember exactly what I was doing back then, but I remember having heard of shiny Pokemon at this point. So when I encountered a reddish Absol that sparkled I practically choked in disbelief. The rate was so stupidly low back then that I never expected to see a shiny again after the Weedle I missed out on in Silver version. But lo and behold, a beautiful red Absol appeared. I caught it by the way! Haven't seen another one in the Hoenn region since, but here's hoping ORAS will change that. http://pldh.net/media/pokemon/gen3/emerald_shiny/359.png |
My first shiny was a Spinda. I didn't know about shiny, but I caught it anyway because he had a different colour. My second shiny was a Corphish. I didn't saw any other shiny in Hoenn Pokèmon after them.
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I actually found a shiny Exeggcute today in Fire Red.
In the safari zone... in an emulator... and it escaped. The only other wild shiny I've ever found in any pokemon game is a shiny Rattata that I found in the same rom. I also had no pokeballs. I've hatched, like, 1 shiny, but that was in Gen 2. ^-^;; |
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