How many shinny pokemon have you encountered?

Started by Dark Phantom Samurai August 13th, 2014 6:59 PM
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Self-Explanatory

In full total how many shinies have you ended up encountering? or Catching? This doesn't include in-game shinny Pokemon that are already there. {Such as the shinny Haxourus in the nature preserve in Black 2/White 2} How many times have you caught a shinny Pokemon using the poke radar? Consecutive fishing or just out of no-where encounters?

Ive got pretty unlucky using the poke-radar I've got a chain of 40 a few times but always get unlucky... :(

Consecutive Fishing... Erm, no luck either :(

But i suppose my luck is in random encounters, in total all the shiny Pokemon i've encountred while just normally training in the wild, from Pokemon Platinum, Pokemon White 2, Pokemon X the total is 7.
The unexpected shinies ended up obtaining were:
Gyrados {Platinum}
Beldum {Platnium}
Pawniard {White 2}
Buizel {Pokemon X}
Alomomola {Pokemon X}
Poliwhirl {Pokemon X}
Altairia {Pokemon X}

Ive noticed in Pokemon X {With me anyway} Every 110 hours of gameplay that i seem to go by, a shinny usually shows up around that 110 hour mark. I Remember the four Pokemon that i found, shinny in X were always around that margin {110 Hours, 220 Hours, 330, Hours, 440 Hours} Each time i got one i saved immediately. Is this the same for you? Whatever is happening with my copy I'm almost at the 550 hours mark, looking for my next one :)

Id love to hear of your experiences :)

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I've encountered only one shinny pokemon, but it was so shinny, it made up for all the other pokemon with smaller shins. Medicham, is so shinny - its legs are practically 99% shin!


Lol but seriously. I've found a few in X/Y, mostly in hordes - one repeat actually (shiny cubchoo twice) and I think 2 or 3 in Black/White + Black2/White 2.
My shinies in fifth gen, being wild encounters - were terrible though ;-; Modest Conkeldurr, and naughty frillish. *shakes head*
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Here are the shiny Pokemon I've encountered/caught over the years:

Sapphire: Sableye (fled from it)

FireRed: Shellder (fled from it)

LeafGreen: Machop (fled from it)

Almost all subsequent shinies have been caught.

Emerald: Koffing

Diamond: Geodude, later deleted; Staravia (fled from it)

Platinum: Roselia, Sneasel, Marill, Blissey (latter via non-Masuda breeding, all lost)

HeartGold: Mewtwo (lost)

SoulSilver: Golbat, Tentacool, Nidorina

Black: Gothita

White: Sewaddle, Golduck, Lunatone, Vulpix

White 2: Petilil

Black 2: Purrloin

X: Nosepass, Drifloon, Clawitzer, Wingull, Mawile (Masuda), Bibarel, Dragonair, Hoppip

Y: Riolu (completely failed to catch it), Pikachu (held a Light Ball), Luvdisc, Quagsire, Noctowl, Whirlipede, Loudred, Shuppet, Lapras, Karrablast (Masuda), Tangela (non-Masuda breeding)

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1. Rattata - Crystal
2. Venonat - Silver
3. Pidgey - Gold
4. Graveler - Diamond
5. Miltank - Diamond
6. Eevee - Diamond
7. Cubone - Diamond
8. Herdier - Flora Sky
9. Spinarak - Crystal
10. Klink - White 2
11. Scatterbug - X
12. Golbat - HeartGold

DraconianWing

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I haven't encountered that many shinies, but there should be enough to make a small list :)

Emerald - Voltorb, Linoone, Tropius, Golbat
SoulSilver - Gyarados
Y - Zubat
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Nothing but a shiny Medicham on Diamond. I could say I started with a shiny Totodile in SoulSilver, but that was on a ROM so I won't count it.

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Quite a few to name: * indicates ones found in challenge runs.

Rattata (Crystal I think)
Gastly (Fire Red)
Fearow (Pearl)
Golbat (Platinum)
Mawile (Emerald)
KYOGRE!!!!! (Heart Gold)
Rattata (Soul Silver)
Luvdisc (Heart Gold)
*Swinub (Platinum)
*Audino (White 2)
*Patrat (Black)
*Roselia (Platinum)
*Floatzel (X)
Bergmite and Silcoon (X)
Noibat (X, bred with Masuda Method)
*Geodude (X, but it was killed in a horde)
*Geodude (Y, this time I caught it)
*Noibat (X)
*Frillish (White 2)

Quite a few i've found, not the biggest supply of all of them but I do have some.
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I'm just going to say the ones I found in the wild in X. It was a piloswine in the friend safari. Otherwise I just competitive breed for my shinies, which got me quite a few.
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My luck with shinies drastically increased once I got Pokemon X, I have almost a box full of them now XD They are:

Giratina (Platinum, NOT an event one!)
Kyurem (White)
Palkia (Event)
Qwilfish (X, chain fishing)
Basculin (X, chain fishing)
Clawitzer (X, chain fishing)
Bisharp (X, hatched without Masuda Method)
Haxorus (X, horde battle encounter)
Bellossom (X, random encounter)
Garchomp (X, FS encounter)
Furfrou (X, Masuda Method)
Druddigon (X, FS encounter)
Raikou (Trade)
Zoroark (X, Masuda Method, and my personal favourite :3)
Chansey (X, FS encounter)
Swalot (X, horde battle encounter)
Crobat (X, horde battle encounter)
Emboar (X, Masuda Method)
Exploud (X, horde battle encounter)
Simipour (X, FS encounter)
Greninja (X, Masuda Method)
Umbreon (X, Masuda Method)
Jumpluff (X, horde battle encounter)
Plusle (X, horde battle encounter)
Flabebe (Trade)
Pachirisu (Trade)
Charizard (X, Masuda Method)

Yeah, quite obvious to see Lady Luck has been on my side since I got Pokemon X XD

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Honestly, too many to remember but here are some of my most memorable ones:
-Pinsir (Silver)(It was my very first)
-Treecko (Sapphire)(After A LOT of soft resets)
-Rayquaza (Sapphire)(Even MOAR soft resets)
-Snorlax (Fire Red)(Do I need to say it?)
-Totodile (Soul Silver)(Same deal...)
-Bagon (Platinum)(Very first Masuda method)
-Latias (White 2)(After only 11 soft resets)

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A few of them, here is a short list:

I encountered and caught:
Spoiler:

• 1st shiny ever too: Black 2 - female Mienfoo, current member of my Y team (as shiny Mienshao, level 100)
• Y - Gulpin, Horde battle, sent to wonder trade
• Y - Luxio, Friend Safari, traded for level 100 female Furret
• Y - Minccino, Friend Safari
• Y - Luxio, Friend Safari
• Y - Larvesta, Friend Safari, sent to GTS for female Zigzagoon


the ones I encountered, but sadly, I accidently fainted.
Spoiler:

• Y - Vanillite in a horde, fainted all with Surf, didn't realized it was shiny until it was too late
• Y - Beartic, fainted near Ice Rock to make my Eevee evolve to a Glaceon, didn't realized it was shiny until it had fainted


finally, the ones I have received
Spoiler:

• Y - Eevee (now Glaceon), trade
• Y - Vulpix, trade
• Y - Riolu, trade
• Y - Mienfoo, trade
• Y - Sentret, trade
• Y - Watchog, found on GTS, other person wanted a Xernas
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I have boxes full of shinies due to trading, but I only ever caught 1 :( My shiny Poochyena from Emerald. You guys have insane luck, or I just have insanely bad luck. I saw a Shiny Shellder once in Silver, but I couldn't catch it because my boxes were full.

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All of them are from Gen 4, 12 of them. 10 of them were through chaining. I did find Carvanha in Gen 3 (first shiny encounter), but save was deleted.

Chaining:
Budew, Starly, Geodude, Wurmple, Buneary, Bidoof, Pachirisu, Shinx, Nincada, Wingull.

Normal 1/8192 chance:
Giratina (fastest shiny encounter), Rotom.

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I've got a lot of shinies in total, but most were given to me by friends, though, and some were from Wonder Trade. Out of them all, I've encountered only about ten or fifteen of them by myself. There would have been more, but wasn't able to exactly capture them due to reasons.

Of the ones I've encountered, Pyroar has got to be my most favorite. Its color-scheme looks very nice, if you ask me!

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My list of shinies isn't very extensive:

-Magnemite, Ruby
-Roselia, Platinum
-Wingull, Y (from a horde)
-Aron, Y (my first Masuda Method shiny)

EDIT: And just now I caught a shiny Pikachu and a shiny Electrode, just minutes apart, in an Electric type Friend Safari.
EDIT 2: Caught a shiny Scraggy while horde EV training.

I have more than that, but they're either ones that come shiny like the Red Gyarados or were obtained in a trade.

There was also this one time in Soul Silver that I encountered a shiny Beedrill in the Bug Catching contest, but I wasn't able to catch it. And that Magnemite was my first ever shiny, caught about 10 years ago. It later became a Magnezone that helped me through my first run of Platinum.
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-Red: My Blastoise on my third playthrough had the right IVs to be shiny in Stadium 2 or when traded to GSC. Too bad I never really got to enjoy that, since I liked leaving my starter on Red. I don't think my other gen I games had shinies on them, but I never really checked the rest of my Pokemon to see if they would be shiny.
-Gold: Hundreds of hours, no shinies (save the red Gyarados). (I did find a shiny Caterpie on an emulator run through Gold, though.)
-Silver: Mareep and Sneasel. This was on something of a throwaway play after the battery on Gold died. I think they're safely stored on Stadium 2.
-Crystal: No shinies.
-Sapphire: Spinda (found when EV training in SpA).
-Emerald: Nincada, found about three hours in.
-LeafGreen: No shinies (again, several hundred hours).
-Diamond: Hatched a shiny Squirtle, 60 eggs, 35th one hatched. I've hatched plenty of RNG'd shinies, but that Squirtle was random. I found a shiny Larvitar with the Pokeradar (tried to chain a lot, but never had any luck besides that once).
-Pearl, Platinum, HG, SS, and B/W: No randomly encountered shinies.
-White 2: Shiny Skorupi, but I was paired up with an NPC, and she killed the Skorupi on turn 1. I unfortunately didn't have a Pokemon out that could knock out her lead before she could act. So sad.
-X: I hatched a shiny Squirtle (MM'd) and Swirlix (unintentional, though MM'd as well). I've two shiny Horsea via chain fishing, and found a shiny Wartortle in the Safari Zone. Still want my perfect shiny Squirtle, but haven't been able to get it.
-Y: No shinies.

So overall, I find I tend to get shinies when I'm not looking for them. Until recently, I've also had better luck on games with very few hours (e.g., Silver, Emerald) than on those with more playtime.
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I haven't cought many shinies, and none in x-y thus far. Lets see...

Fire Red: pidgey (kept, its gold :D)

Soul silver: ekans (cought, erased save like an idiot) electrode (caught, didnt even know it was shiny until long after the save was gone)

Aether★

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Leaf Green: Shiny Primeape at Victory Road

Emerald: Shiny Hariyama at Victory Road

Platinum: Shiny Gastly at Old Chateau and Shiny Floatzel at Route 230

X: I have almost whole box of Shinies, every single one but Unfeazant and Ditto are from breeding via Masuda Method. Whole Eeveelution family + 3 Eevees with Anticipation and different egg moves, 2 Charizards (M and F), 2 Milotics (M and F), Feebas, Butterfree, Fennekin, Braixen, Delphox(yes, I have whole evo line), Sandslash, Absol, Spheal, Rotom, and Ninetales.