Already up to 500 or so SR's (I lost exact count) and no shiny Snivy. SRing on White takes SO LONG. :/
Well, in other news, I decided to take a break with the White version, so I'm on Emerald looking for a shiny of any starter. No luck so far. Do you know if the sprite will be shiny in the bag, like in HG/SS?
Emerald has broken RNG (random number generator) by the way. Generally people don't hunt on Emerald because sometimes on certain files it's possible that you will literally never find a shiny by SR, and RE & SR shinies can be RNG clones, which makes them less than legit. D:
...
Yeah, I should probably switch to my Ruby then. Thanks for letting me know. :)
Yo i think you should check if your Rubys internal battery is dead first. Cause mine died about 3 months ago and i was still SR'ing for weeks like an idiot haha :D
I'mmmmm baaaaccckkk!!!!! After forgetting my password, I have returned! Right now, I am soft resetting for charmander in fire red and Mudkip in emerald. Wish me luck! Also, does anyone here Skype?
Cute charm makes it so that cute charm is nuked on shinies! The mechanics of the game between cute charm and shinies are sort of incompatible, so with a cute charmer for females, you'll never(? if not rarely) find a female shiny. You can still find shinies, and females, but not female shinies. ;P
Omg! I was browing in my poke PC boxes on my white thinking all my shinies is in my shiny special box then WHAM! There was a shiny vulprix on my Box 9! I'm literally just cheering at the moment.. Lost for words I cant wait to get ninetails out of this fella!
chikorita
Wish me luck!
*puts shiny hunting cape back on*
Guessssss whaaaaat?
I wanna join! i dont have any shiny yet but I am going for shiny bulbasaur right now. Just started collecting shinies :D
I have news and at the same time I don't have. I'll tell more when the time is right.
Already up to 500 or so SR's (I lost exact count) and no shiny Snivy. SRing on White takes SO LONG. :/
NAOW I SEARCH FOR SHINY
*puts shiny hunting cape back on*
Hiatus is over, hopefully. I'm gonna try and approach shiny hunting a totally different way for now. I have fun doing egg hunts; my first target will be Larvitar, assuming I have the resources necessary to breed the way I want to (perfect IVs, suitable nature, egg moves...you guys know how I roll by now :p)
Good luck everyone.
Man. Shiny hunting sure requires a lot of patience. I'm about to get back on my hunt for that shiny Charmander now...
I wanna join! i dont have any shiny yet but I am going for shiny bulbasaur right now. Just started collecting shinies :D
İ'm not really on a hunt but i've got this feeling that im gonna get a random shiny sometime this week. İ'm EV training in hp for my shiny bayleef already murdered 102 hoothoots. Hes level 25 alredy and i havent even got the first gym badge :(
Anyway wish me luck with the hoothoots it would be real cool to have a double shiny run :P
Path of the Dragon!!
I still haven't finished making a team yet, but I've been reinvigorated in my quest for shinies. I've only gotten one this whole year!! That's more than 8 months!!
*turns shiny hunting mode from Lax to G-Money Mad Hunting Level Delta*
*Sits in corner scared* Must beat G. Higher number. More SRs. NOW.
I was thinking of what I should hunt, and I thought, why not hunt for my favorite shinies? This had never occurred to me before, "lol."
Rayquaza is far and away my favorite shiny: not only does its shiny form look incredible, but it's also a really awesome Pokemon overall. It's not accessible for me right now, though, as I'm still in Professor Elm's lab in HG, "lol." Seeing as I already have shiny Totodile, my path to Rayquaza will be:
Shiny Cyndaquil -> Shiny Chikorita -> Shiny Ho-oh -> Shiny Groudon/Kyogre -> Shiny Kyogre/Groudon -> Shiny Rayquaza!!
I have a lot of work to do to get there, but it'll definitely be worth it and I'll get a heap of the best shinies around on my way. I'm up to 495 Johto starters so far, and Cynaquil and Chikorita are both among my 5 favorite Pokemon.
LOL, good luck with... all of that! You did set yourself a difficult path indeed, but any shiny path is a good one. And one that leads to Rayquaza, no less! Just.. asking/pointing out, do you have SS & HG? 'Cause you have to have a Groudon from SS, and a Kyogre from HG, to get to Rayquaza. The fact that you aren't going for two starters/Lugia made me wonder XP
My second path will be continuing along the Path of the Ghost, as Misdreavus is one of my favorites as well. Going by Axiom 22 I'll hunt it in Pearl (20% in the Lost Tower at night) along with Gastly, but I need to get the starters first before I can get there. :cer_laugh:
I'll also be going for Eevee in FR so I can get the legendaries/TMs and restart FR to SR for Squirtle and Charmander. That's a totally different path, "lol."
Spoiler:
Welcome back! Good luck!
Instead of Skype, why don't you come on over to the Official SHC Chat?
What!? I've never heard of this before. Could you explain a little more, please? I'm interested in hearing about this, "lol." Why wouldn't Cute Charm let you get female shinies?
I don't remember much about it, but I read somewhere that because of the RNG, the odds of cute charm coincide somewhere with the odds of a shiny, and thus cute charm is pretty much reversed. I do believe it was something official I read it from, but you know. Sorry for the horrible explanation xD
Haha, box hunting is one of the best ways to get shinies. You already have it caught, and it can't flee! :cer_laugh: Congrats on finding a shiny Vulpix!!
Welcome back! Congrats on the Chikorita!
Welcome to the SHC! Good luck!
Welcome back! Shiny hunting capes are a great idea. We totally need to get those for everyone!!
Congrats! 13,000 isn't really that high of a number for you, "lol." If it were anyone else, I would have told them that they deserved a shiny and a half for all that effort. :cer_tongue: You should've gone for 50k!
26k if you include Kyurem, Treecko and Zapdos too. It made a little piece of me die inside when I saw that low number )":
I really like your sig, too!
Thanks xD
Welcome to the club, ShinyAlex! I hope you get your shiny Bulbasaur soon and get many more after it. :)
TSE is ALWAYS right - this does sound ominous! :pink_disbelief: I hope it's good (nonexistent?) news, like finding 10 shinies or something!! :D
Tell me about it!! Seriously, the time it takes SRing for a starter in White is completely absurd. I SRed for Snivy for a bit, and in the time it took me to do one SR, I could do something like 25 Johto starters, "lol." I'm seriously considering not going back and just breeding for them instead. Hopefully BW2 have a faster starter reset time, "lol."
Then again, there's nothing a shiny hunter can't do!! Keep at it, hunter!! :)
Hurry! Before it runs out!!! Get your shiny as soon as possible!! *rerouts all luck vents towards Jacinth*
P. S. Is the multiquote not working for anyone else? I had to individually quote each message in a new tab and copy/paste them into one post. :/
ObviouslyWorked for me :P
EDIT: 888 Johto starters!
Hey guys, i've been online but not hunting, and i visit this thread every (second?) day, so i know whats been going and all, so i haven't been hunting because i've no targets... i'm thinking that i'll go Groudon on my AWESOME SS file (SHINY HO-OH in 55 SR's!) i'm rather talented at chaining, but thats way too easy. Anyway, congrats to everyone on their shinies!
![]()
i figured i may as well post this. I found this little guy a few days ago while in that new chat with G, Arceus Whisper and TSE. I was searching for the space cow and bull, but this guy showed up first. im still searching here for them, and HOPEFULLY i dont get a third Meowth or another Raticate or Farfetch'd (as i have those two already). i wouldnt mind another Magnemite, and definitely wouldnt mind a Snubbull.
more people need to come and chat, so here's the link https://xat.com/PokeCommunityShinyHuntersClub?p=6
i will post, probably in spoilers, the stats of this Meowth and the Staravia when i can
Finally, after three days of chain breeding, I've got some suitable parents for my Larvitar breeding. Just so you guys have an idea of what I'm working with....
Papa Larvitar: 31/31/x/x/31/x, knows Curse, Rock Slide, Pursuit, and Crunch
Mama Larvitar: 31/31/31/x/31/x knows Rock Slide, Crunch, Earthquake, and Stone Edge and holding the Power Def EV Item
My rationale behind using the Power Def EV Item is this: Mama and Papa Larvitar both have flawless HP, Attack, and Special Defense already. The chances are that the offspring Larvitar will inherit Attack, HP, or Special Defense from one of them...using the Power Def EV Item ensures that I get the maximum number of 31s possible. Also, no Everstone on either parent because neither of them have good natures. I can't be bothered to go to all THAT trouble.
Wish me luck you guys.
i think i'll join this club. i've never really shiny hunted before and i only have one shiny. it's the gyarados you catch in HG but i dont really count that. i'm going to start hunting for a shiny vulpix in pokemon black. wish me luck.
I am still hunting for a shiny mareep in Crystal I lost count at 5,672 encounters.
I lost my shiny Emerald pokes due to a bad save battery. -_-
Huh?? i have no idea what you guys are talking about, anywho i havent been really shiny hunting that much, infact not really doing much of anything, but any way i just wanted to make a post to mention im going on week long trip were we will drive pretty much the whole time so i have a week worth of shiny hunting a head of me, sadly i will probably have to RE because ally my jap pokes are in white which wont work but still i might return with good news-LucarioGuild Out...Sorry TSE but I'm gonna have to disagree with you on the whole Cute Charm thing. I was talking to some guys at Smogon who dedicate their existence to understanding the RNG and they said it won't hurt and in some cases it can get the shiny odds up to at most 1/32, because it pins certain values of the PID removing some of the variables that go into deciding things such as Gender, Nature, IV's and Shininess. Note that to get enhanced shiny odds with a cute charmer you need one of the several combinations of TID/SID (This is an over simplified explanation, they took about an hour telling me all about their RNG research they've been doing for months)