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Does anyone remember their first shiny pokemon and if so what was it?
My first ever shiny was the Red Gyarados when I first played Pokemon Gold as a wee tot. I imagine that this is so for many people. The plotline of the red Gyarados at the Lake of Rage was my favorite part of gen 2, and I added that bad boy to my team! He took me to the pokemon league and was a full-time partner in crime for me. Gyarados still has one of the most striking shinies ever.
At that time I did not grasp the concept of shiny pokemon. I thought of the red Gyarados as an anomaly like the crystal Onix in the anime. I did not realize that there were other red gyarados out there in the waters, let alone did I understand that every pokemon had a shiny form that I might randomly encounter. My innocence at that time makes me worry now if I may have overlooked shiny pokemon that crossed my path in those days, especially if they had more subtle color changes!!
My most recent memory of a shiny Pokemon is yesterday. I found a shiny ponyta last evening after only 84 encounters. I am overjoyed to have found Fiorio and added him to my family. His evolution Rapidash is quite possibly my favorite shiny after Milotic. Its just looks like heaven to behold with the smoky, cloud-like mane.
That is exactly what I thought too. It was a real one of a kind Pokemon. Since I too saw the anime first.
Would've been way cooler if it was, I think.
I found that before Krabby, because game, but I don't count it as it's intended to be shiny. Not a very memorable answer to say "My first was the same as everyone else's that was intended to be" so I instead went with my first truly random encounter.
It definitely would have been dramatic if that Gyarados was the only one of his kind.
Since shiny pokemon are no longer determined by a swap with the next color in the game's code, but actively designed now it would be interesting if Game Freak created a new shiny for Gyarados, and left the red Gyarados indeed as an unexplained mystery of the past of the pokemon world like Crystal Onix or Pink Butterfree.
So did you try to catch that shiny krabby? Its a real nice shiny with that gold tone. Speaking of nice-looking, I see somebody has another stylish avvie today!
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It's a little late for tthem to do that, but yeah, that is certainly the approach they should've taken. Tsk, tsk...
Sadly, no, it got away. I think I messed up trying and it fainted. To be fair, in gen II, shiny Krabby was uuuugly.
It was basically just toilet water brown. Ew. I recall Ratatta being the same way.
Haha, you pick up fast! Well I'm back on the Team Magma skin, the beautiful crimson board, so I needed something red again. :P
Glad someone with such great taste approves!