4th Gen Poll on shiny collecting in D/P

[Amoeba]

I was wondering out of curiosity... how many people here would say they collect shinies on a serious level, compared with those who don't, in Diamond and Pearl? I'm just curious...

 

[AJ™]

I'm a competitive battler, but having a shiny every so often is fine.

 

[WaluigiRedclaw91]

I mainly use shiny pokemon in competitive ways

 

[Skaterzpenguin]

I sometimes hunt for shinies, but its so hard to get them. lol I only seen 2 shinies in my Pearl using the poke'radar so far.

 

[Toblerone]

Hmm.. i'm a casual shiny collecter, sometimes i go on a massive rampage looking for shinies, but it kinda dies away after a few minutes, lol.

 

[Patchy]

I'm a HUGE fan of shinies. (As you'd see from my trade thread :P.)

I always look for them with Pokeradar, but dislike soft resetting, so I don't do it. I trade for those instead. :P

 

[El Gofre]

When my wifi decides to work, im a hardcore collector over wifi. I will complete the dex in shiny, 120/7000 done :P
I cant be bothered to catch them myself though, too much effort. I spend most of my time EVing and dont have time to attempt chaining.

 

[Mitchman]

Mt game counter stopped cause of looking so what do you think.

 

[Ghostsrevolt]

i'm a casual collector.
i've only seen about like 5 shinies in my pearl.

 

[The Fallen]

A shiny every so often is nice indeed, but I do not go out of my way, such as codes, to get them. I'm perfectly fine with the normal look of any pokemon.

 

[XDLugia]

i have gotten all of the normal pokes that can be obtain at this point so i look into getting shinies. that is the only reason i have like 60+ shinies.

 

[Crystal Shaymin]

iim very determined. so far, i have around 70, around 10-15 were caught myself from chaining, or random encounter.

 

[Azonic]

Shiny pokemon have little importance to me. If I do happen to find a shiny pokemon, that's nice. If I don't, I'm perfectly fine. I'm more focused on IVs and natures and would be much happier if I found a Pokemon with a good IV spread / Nature than a shiny. But if I do get a shiny pokemon with perfect IVs and a great nature, then that's fantastic. 8D

 

[Cid]

I have a Shiny Riolu... Though nothing seems to be different when compared to normal ones...

I guess I'm not much of a collector because they are really really really rare...

 

[hothead]

Im A causual collecter but im slowly buliding up i got a lot better at chaning and im trying to get every pokemon shiny right now i got 12 but I might try to become a supper shiney collecter but right now im more causual

 

[Mitchman]

Also to add to my 999 hours of gameplay do to shiny hunting I got over 200. Its draining batteries out of my DS so badly I am afraid of the electric bill

 

[Iron Shaman]

There are very few shinies I like, and they're only good GTS bait to me, so i don't really care. =P

Having a shiny pokémon with good IVs is really nice, but I'd much rather breed a pokémon with a lot of stats in 29-31 than have a shiny with okay IVs/nature.

 

[Sweet Speed]

I collect shinies when I check the Pokedex and say "OMG I love this Poke". That's when I start looking for them, I think people focus too much on shinies and should just do it as a fun thing ^^

 

[Iron Shaman]

I collect shinies when I check the Pokedex and say "OMG I love this Poke". That's when I start looking for them, I think people focus too much on shinies and should just do it as a fun thing ^^

That's the best way to look at it, IMO.

 

[paperfunk]

i've seen one shiny (and i ran from it) and i hatched one. the rest of my shinys are trades