Let’s share our most painful shiny fails!

Shiny Electrode in the Lost Hotel in X.

*Electrode appears*
Me: Oh, it's blue.
Gardevoir used Hypnosis
Hypnosis missed
Electrode used Self Destruct.
Electrode fainted.

I also had the misfortune of having two Shiny Yellow Riolu's on screen at the same time by SOS chaining. I had to faint one and throw a Timer Ball at the other.

Aurelion Sol said:

It was hoard battle on my Y or OR, that time I encounter a shiny oddish (forgot) and ooof boy I regret that day I killed it because there's no way telling which oddish is the shiny one ooof

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Shiny Oddish are actually very easy to spot. Their body in the shiny form is green instead of blue.

Imperator161 said:

I was in a segment that required you to have a partner with you (I think it was in White) when I encountered a shiny Skorupi. Unfortunately, since my character is apparently incapable of aiming with a poke ball when there are two Pokemon on the field (I miss Colosseum), I couldn't catch it. The Pokemon I had out wasn't strong enough to take out my partner's Pokemon in one hit (to avoid having to hope that my partner targeted the non-shiny Pokemon on the field), and unfortunately, said partner immediately took out poor Skorupi with a super effective attack.

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I'm guessing it was Bianca's Musharna? Shame on her!

Hikamaru said:

I'm guessing it was Bianca's Musharna? Shame on her!

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Yep. I used to see those double battle partners as a fun way to train up weak Pokemon (as you'd get healed after each round), but ever since then, I've tended to plow through them as quickly as possible with a Pokemon who can take out anything my partner might try using.

I was soft resetting for a shiny treeko and the bastard pocheyena that you can't even catch was shiny. I had to soft rest on it or knock it out. I let my braver friend handle it for me and gave up on pokemon emerald.

You guys, your story are painful :(

Maybe it is because I don't have much shinies under my name in my life.. But I hatched 3 and the Treecko was perfect, the Mienfoo was almost perfect and the Foongus was still okay.

My worst one was that Lillipup that I ended up almost knocking because I didn't realized it was a shiny (and I do multitasking so I missed the star in the beginning of the fight). Realized in time, caught it... Worst nature ever. It goes against his strenght. Too bad, if it would have been alright I could use it in that walkthrought (I don't know why I didn't, natures are not important for a casual playing) .

Figured my 50,000th post should be dedicated to a new hatred I have towards a certain Pokemon, and that is Trumbeak.

I was training some Pokemon in the Poni Plains, and when I was training my Tangrowth, he got massacred by two Trumbeak in an SOS battle. One of them landed a crit with Drill Peck, and then decided to poke at my Tangrowth's very low Sp. Def, killing him in an easy one-two punch.

It also didn't help that training my Hippowdon and Wailord against them sucked as well, since they had Bullet Seed and always seemed to hit 5 times, even when they didn't have Skill Link.

Seriously, screw Trumbeak. Nothing but the most savage birds ever.

Caught a Shiney Sentret in Crystal recently. Then did a false move and accidentally closed Retroarch instead of saving. My first experiences with an emulator... Oh boy. '-_-.

At least I recently caught a Shiny Wingull and a Shiney Fearow. Only saw one shiny in 20 years of playing before last month (excluding the red Gyarados in GSC) , then found 3 in the same week 0_o

I fainted a Shiny Diagla because I forgot its typing. It then took my 3000 more resets to get it. This was also a time when I did not have the shiny charm.

This just happened and I am still shaken up about it. I ran into a shiny Spearow on my Pokemon Leaf Green and Nina, my Nindoran F, was out. A Double Kick surely wouldn't kill it, would it? WRONG. I got a critical hit and I just sat there in my bed, turned off the game briefly, and cried after uploading my failure to my social media. Currently, I am attempting to quickly reclaim it but I do not have any hope right now. :(

Oh gosh? This one's more painful in retrospect, but I distinctly remember that, as a child, I thought the odds of getting a shiny in GSC were, like, 1/512 or something instead of 1/8,192, so I ran from a shiny Nidoran?, thinking "I should probably catch a bug for the bug-catching contest; I can just find another later!"

I wasn't even in the bug-catching contest.

One time, I found a Shiny Nidorina in Kanto's safari zone. I tried catching her, but she fled after one Pokeball toss...

& In Pokemon Diamond, when I was in Wayward Cave with Mira, I encountered a Shiny Zubat. Mira had her Kadabra use Psychic on it and it fainted. :'D

Another time, I ran into a Shiny Noctowl in Kanto, but it refused to stay in any of my Pokeballs. I got mad and turned off the game.... but I got a Shiny Drowzee that day so that shiny fail wasn't too painful.

Also I saw a freaking Shiny Barboach IN THE BATTLE PALACE OWNED BY ANOTHER TRAINER. I was so upset about it, I soft reset the game. Why is that fair? I always forget trainers can have shinies in the Battle Frontier.