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The Longest You Spent Soft-Resting for a Shiny

kidpunk

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    The longest I spent was a painstaking 12,224 soft resets for a shiny Entei. Everytime I ran into Entei in my Firered game for the first time, if it wasn't shiny, I SR'd my game. This took 4 and a half years. I ran into it, on average, about 50 times a week (do the math). It's taking me more times to find other shinies (37,881 for my shiny Kyogre), but that didn't take as long.

    So what about you?
     
    i soft reset to get a shiny kyogre i was doing for about oh at least good 12 hours thats a total of hours by the way. I did get it to be a shiny but i killed it X(
     
    I soft reseted for a shiny Porygon in Crystal, though I lost count after 1,000. It was the last thing I did before my batter rolled over and died... ...
     
    I'm still SRing for a shiny Kyogre in Sapphire. I haven't given it a good try in a few months now, though. I should probably get back at it. I was probably around 200+ last time I tried, though.
     
    I never soft reset just for the pokemon. I'd prefer getting a pokemon with perfect IV's than a pokemon for bragging rights.

    I will say that I thought about it many times though; pink crobat=win.
     
    I feel bad for saying this but i soft reset 4 times to get a shinny charmander starter
     
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    Luck said:
    I never soft reset just for the pokemon. I'd prefer getting a pokemon with perfect IV's than a pokemon for bragging rights.

    I will say that I thought about it many times though; pink crobat=win.
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    I got a pink crobat (= win :)) in the gts once
    Polizard said:
    I feel bad for saying this but i soft reset 4 times to get a shinny charmander starter
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    lucky as. I myself have been trying to get a shiny starter in SoulSliver for about 2 hours, but it got boring and i stopped.
     
    I never soft reset for shinies. I think that shinies are only awesome if you come across them completely by accident. That's why I don't Pokeradar for them either.
     
    what a waste of time & brainpower. You'd be better off learning a foreign language or philosophy or woodwork or something. Why not just buy the shineys & spend some time levelling up battling, much more entertaining.
     
    Don't post here if your gonna comment on what a waste it is to soft-reset for a shiny. Its fun and exciting to me.
    Also, I finally got my Shiny Rayquaza today in Sapphire after about 3600 soft resets.
     
    I have SR'ed for a shiny Groudon (yay at gold Groudon) like 500+ on my Ruby (lol) and I still don't have it -.- but i won't start SR'ing again. Try the RNG (random number generator) trick on D/P/Pt (and Emerald), it saves you a lot of time and effort.
     
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    I've been trying since July for a shiny Groudon. I wouldn't like to think about how many times I must have SR'd in that time. ;^;
     
    I tried SR'ing for Ho-oh in FireRed. I calculated that it would take me 4 weeks of soft resetting for an hour a day. I gave up after 3 days.
     
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