First Shiny Failure in old gens...

[BOMBERMANBART]

Hello guys, in new at this Community and my English isnt one of the bests so sometimes I can misspell in my blogs/comments, but Im improving my English!

So, I made this blog to ask something to you guys: What was your first shiny failure?

My first shiny in an original Pokémon Game was an uncatchable Bastiodon in Battle Arcade in Pokémon SoulSilver.

Let's suffer together!(?) 😢

 

[Sorvete]

I think I found a shiny Zubat in Mt. Moon once, but I didn't have any Pokéballs. Feels bad :'c

 

[Palamon]

Oof, Shiny Zubat in a wild Double Battle with a Stat Trainer in Wayard Cave, her Kadabra used Psychic on it and....welp, bye bye, shiny Zubat. :') This was my first shiny fail, and it still upsets me to this day, 11 years later! This shiny fail could have been avoided if I had attacked Mira's Kadabra by fainting it....

 

[Sorvete]

Oof, Shiny Zubat in a wild Double Battle with a Stat Trainer in Wayard Cave, her Kadabra used Psychic on it and....welp, bye bye, shiny Zubat. :') This was my first shiny fail, and it still upsets me to this day, 11 years later! This shiny fail could have been avoided if I had attacked Mira's Kadabra by fainting it....

Now that you mention Wayward Cave, I've found a shiny Geodude there that I didn't manage to get. It was not even Mira the responsible, it just used self-destruct.

 

[ElBurrito]

My first shiny fail was in Emerald. I was training on Route 121, murdering ghosts left and right (because logic). A shiny Shuppet appeared and I just battled it like normal. It wasn't until after knocking it out and looking at the exp. gained that I realized "Wait, Shuppet are suppose to be purple...". I've always been super cautious around shinies ever since.

My latest shiny encounter, while technically not a fail, was a Graveler in Victory Road in FireRed. I was doing a grass mono-type challenge, so no using shiny Graveler for me... (Side note: I did catch it, just left it to rot in the PC.)

 

[Percy]

I think I was hunting for a shiny torchic back in ruby? I accidentally pressed the soft reset button combination when the shiny torchic appeared. im still upset :(

 

[User Anon 1848]

I fainted a shiny Whismur in one of the 3rd gen games before I found out about the shiny mechanic. I thought the Red Gyarados from gen 2 was the only possible shiny encounter so I chalked it up to a visual glitch or my eyes not working. No big loss tbh.

Didn't know that the Arcade Pokemon from HG/SS could be shiny either. Thanks for the tidbit OP.

 

[Nah]

idk if it was my first, but the one that always sticks out in my mind is the one time in HGSS I was doing the bug catching contest, and a shiny Beedrill showed up. It KO'd my Pokemon before i could catch it =(

 

[MurkyCrow]

A shiny Golbat in Victory Road on Leaf Green. I ran out of Balls. It was my very first game and I didn't understand anything so I thought if I went back to the same spot I could find another one

 

[shayfee]

i've never had a shiny fail, but my friend found a shiny rattata in her first or second encounter in the game, before you get any pokeballs :(

 

[AkameTheBulbasaur]

I found a Shiny Groudon in Emerald. I wasn't even trying to find one, which was probably why i was extremely unprepared. I accidentally knocked them out. I was pretty young at the time and I didn't really think too much of it, but looking back I realised not only did I fail a Shiny, but I failed a Shiny Legendary. :(

 

[Palamon]

Didn't know that the Arcade Pokemon from HG/SS could be shiny either. Thanks for the tidbit OP.

Pokemon in all the Battle Facilities in both E/P/HG/SS have a chance to be shiny, actually.

It's awful seeing a Shiny Pokemon with an NPC trainer, tbh, it hurts so bad.

 

[CocoaAlpaca]

My first shiny fail was actually a Shiny Chingling in Pokemon Y. My Amaura killed it.
Amaura went to one of the cutest Pokemon to a Pokemon that gives me bad memories.

 

[TomFinnigan]

My first shiny was a Pineco in Pokemon Silver, I thought it was just a bug in the game though and ran from it as I didn't know about shinies back then...

 

[LucarioBread]

In Pokemon Ruby, I was in Granite cave for some reason (I had long beaten the e4 by now) and this random yellow Geodude pops up and I remember thinking "Hm, that's weird, but I already have a Geodude" and I didn't even bother catching it.
Now that I understand how rare shiny Pokemon are, I'm just pissed at little me.