The Official Shiny Thread

[CharizardMaster]

Lets see, Two Spindas, a geodude, bellosom, crobat, and a meditite. The first four I found in my emerald all within a span of one month and the meditie I found in my diamond.

 

[Maple Meganium]

Hooray for copy & paste! Long story... well, long, I caught shiny Palkia today:

I was watching a random episode of Star Trek TNG while doing soft resets idly--one of my main time filling methods to get lots of SRs done, when it came. I darted upstairs and turned my PC on, but it couldn't turn on fast enough for my satisfaction! With cameras rolling, I proceeded with the surgically precise capture.

Out goes my Timid syncher in exchange for PaperWeit, my Bronzong sleeper/wall slave. Dragon Claw on the switch. The (quite speedy, hmm...) Palkia fires a Water Pulse before I can fire Hypnosis--missed! Let's try this again. Another Water Pulse! Bronzong is confused! Bronzong hurt itself in its confusion. -.-; (I guess the gay tactics are made up for by the extreme luck in finding the sono***un. o__o)

Full Restore is used to heal my almost dead Zong and cure confusion. Palkia uses Ancientpower for lol% damage. Again I pick Hypnosis and Palkia uses Spatial Rend, for not very much damage either. Hypnosis connects this time and Palkia is asleep.

Out goes Zong and in goes my slave Bibarel. Without fear, Bibarel begins attacking the Strawberry Ice Cream Jetplane with its Super Fangs. Midway through, Palkia wakes up, but Bibarel keeps on gnawing, going down in a blaze of glory after the fifth Fang connects.

It's back to Zong for the finish, and he takes another Water Pulse on the switch. After healing up with Moomoo Milk, it's time for another barrage of Hypnosis. After another weak Spatial Rend, Hypnosis is a hit! Now, which ball to throw...

Dusk? Too spooky. Great? Too plain. How about I throw a Premier Ball now just to see what happens? Sure, the red opening is a bit apt, but what the hell? *shake 1* ... *shake 2* ... *shake 3* ... it's... in? HOLY! SHINY PALKIA IS MINE!! :D:D

What this calls for is a Shiny Dex:

This time around, to keep the Tubers quiet, I pick up my Pearl Orb straight off (well, after saving), then head out. After killing a hapless Clefairy, I can fly to the nearest Pokécenter and check my new beauty's stats.

Stat Page 1 Stat Page 2 Stat Page 3

Wicked! My Syncher worked and Palkia is Timid! I have no clue what its IVs are like and am too lazy to use a calculator.

Now, it's time to finish the rest of the game. However, I have still to play through Diamond all the way (not for shinies this time) to collect legendaries (mainly the pixies) so I can get NatDex on Pearl without needing to capture Mesprit. Or does anyone have one they're willing to lend? ;)

So I guess this means I've won the Palkia race. Good luck to everyone else! Don't quit just because someone else beat you to it. It really is May Mayhem, and you'll never know what might shine around the corner! ;)

 

[Wichu]

Does it really show the shiny version in the Dex, or is it only when it's caught?

And here's your IVs: Timid #484 Palkia: 18 - 19 / 5 - 8 / 28 - 29 / 15 - 17 / 24 - 25 / 22 - 23

 

[HalcyonXIII]

^ It won't be a permenant thing, you'll only see it Shiny in the 'dex after you have caught it. If you check the 'dex entry after the battle, it will be in it's normal colours.

And i've reached 40 in a new chain, of Wobbuffet xP
Zero Shinies so far, as I had a break after getting to 40.

x5 (Updated :O)

I'll update when I catch some :P

Edit: Caught one, Synch didn't work as I got a Brave male ^^'
Oh well, here's the proof -

A Shiny Wobbuffet appears!

Wobba'dex

Edit 2: I now have 5 - three males and two females.

 

[4chan]

I have a shiny chancey and a shiny garados! :3

 

[MarkLv100]

my shiny zubat

my sister caught a shiny zubat grean i saw it and traded so now i have a shiny zubat

 

[True Justice]

Current Shinies:
Caught through Luck:
Caterpie
Geodude
Gyarados
Bidoof

Caught through Chaining:
Chatot
Budew
Wurmple
Pachirisu
Buneary
Machop
Snubbull
Shinx
Corsola (X2)
Ditto
Lickitung
Cubone
Smeargle
Plusle
Nosepass
Larvitar (X2)
Ralts (female...darn)
Kricketune
Krabby
Mime Jr. (X3)

Caught through Soft Resetting:
Mudkip

And hopefully more to come in the future

 

[hatchboy94]

medichamp, looks so cool

dugtrio

darkrai-legit no AR

 

[PiplupnamedPIP]

Shinys

I'm haviung trouble with shinys.... can they be bred? wild? how can u tell? I have 1 shiny and it was traded to me but i have no clue how to get them on my own

 

[BakingBluePotatoe]

you just... find 'em... there's really no other way.

 

[armond8877]

Well yes they can be bred but heres the chart:
Shiny + UnShiny = 50/50
Shiny + Shiny = Shiny
Unshiny + Unshiny = Unshiny

In the wild they come up random, really but there where you least expect,,, fro example, if I wanted a shiny shinx I wouldn't look in routes 201-203 thats the last place where they'd be, you probably find a shiny shinx in like victory road, or somthin' lol

Hope It helps... Oh if this helps plz level up my Murmii pokemon in my sig'

 

[World King]

The Quickest way to find any Shinies yourself is by Chaining. Otherwise, just Trade up.

 

[PiplupnamedPIP]

ok then, whats chaining? Sorry to be a bother -.-

 

[World King]

You can check the "Shiny Hunting with The PokéRadar" Thread. It'll answer every question you have about that.

 

[HalcyonXIII]

Well yes they can be bred but heres the chart:
Shiny + UnShiny = 50/50
Shiny + Shiny = Shiny
Unshiny + Unshiny = Unshiny

In the wild they come up random, really but there where you least expect,,, fro example, if I wanted a shiny shinx I wouldn't look in routes 201-203 thats the last place where they'd be, you probably find a shiny shinx in like victory road, or somthin' lol

Hope It helps... Oh if this helps plz level up my Murmii pokemon in my sig'

Where'd you get that from?
Breeding Shinies has no effect on the probability of the offspring being a Shiny. That effect was only present in G/S/C, and it was still not quite a guarranteed thing, but just much more likely.
And you can only find a Shiny form of a Pokémon in the area where they'd normally appear. Shinx is not in the Victory Road -_-

I'm haviung trouble with shinys.... can they be bred? wild? how can u tell? I have 1 shiny and it was traded to me but i have no clue how to get them on my own

Every single Pokémon - be it those encountered in the wild, from fossils, Legendaries, egg hatched, recieved from a non-playable character - every Pokémon has the same chance of being Shiny, which is 1/8192.

With Poké Radar chaining, that chance still remains. In other words, it is entirely possible to find a random Shiny in a non-Shiny shaking bush. After all chaining increases the chance of a Shiny bush appearing, which in turn gives a 100% chance of finding a Shiny.

When chaining, the highest chance you'll get is with a 40+ chain, at 1/199 per shaking bush - and since there can be up to 4 of those, the chance is really about 4/199 or 1/50

Wild Shinies have a noticable "Shine" to them upon entering a battle with one to help one distinguish the difference between one and a normal Pokémon, as well as the different colours, obviously :P

My video shows a Shiny patch in a Poké Radar chain, and the Shiny encounter that comes after entering it.

If you hatch or recieve a Shiny, then it won't Shine upon getting it. You should be able to tell by the colour differences though, as well as the small red star icon that appears by it's sprite in the summary screen. The Shine only shows in battle.

 

[Crystal Shaymin]

Well yes they can be bred but heres the chart:
Shiny + UnShiny = 50/50
Shiny + Shiny = Shiny
Unshiny + Unshiny = Unshiny

In the wild they come up random, really but there where you least expect,,, fro example, if I wanted a shiny shinx I wouldn't look in routes 201-203 thats the last place where they'd be, you probably find a shiny shinx in like victory road, or somthin' lol

Hope It helps... Oh if this helps plz level up my Murmii pokemon in my sig'

LOL. where did you get this? this is just not true at all. ALL shinies have a 1/8192 chance of being shiny, no matter if you breed shinies or unshinies.

 

[PiplupnamedPIP]

Halcyon, ok so i just got the poke radar thismorning. I also have the guide and i know how to use it but i have Absolutely NO idea what chaining is. ty for helping tho ^.^

 

[LordxDanswich]

Halcyon, ok so i just got the poke radar thismorning. I also have the guide and i know how to use it but i have Absolutely NO idea what chaining is. ty for helping tho ^.^

Chaining is when you use the pokeradar to encounter the same pokemon again and again, literally making a chain of pokemon, for each same pokemon you encounter the odds of a shiny appearing increase a little, when you hit 40 the odds bottom out at 1/200

Heres a few videos that may help you
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4, this also has the shiny patch in it if you don't know what they look like

And here's all the shinies i have so far *Deep breath*
Rapidash male
Sandslash male
Smeargle female
Pikachu female
Parasect female
Pelipper female
Golem female
Gardevoir female
Dustox female
Groudon
Bellossom female
Chimeco male
Zigzagoon male
Purugly female
Magnezone
Masquerain female
Delcatty male
Luxray female
Farfetch'd male
Shinx male
Staravia female
Kingler female
Aggron female
Absol male
Pachirisu male
Bannette male
Roserade male
Ampharos male
Skuntank male
Beautifly male
Grumpig male
Zangoose male
Seviper male
Regigigas
Weavile female
Jynx female.
Gastrodon male
Kricketune female
Rayquaza
Blaziken male
Regirock
Floatzel male
Luxio male
Gliscor male
Hairyama male
Skamory male
Probopass male
Machamp male
Ludicolo female

I'm also soft restting for a shiny registeel at the moment, i'm currently at 5,040 resets.

 

[Ryuzaki_Lawliet]

I have three shinies very proud-

Shiny starly
shiny shinx
shiny..ROSELIA?!

Oh well, I'm never evolving them!

 

[super onii chan]

Shiny Pokemon Hunting Team

I wanted to know what pokemon you use to hunt shinies. example my team is: Scyther(named ShinyHuntr/use for false swipe/KOs weak pokemon), Latios(shes my flying pokemon/KOs strong pokemon), Ralts w/ synchronize(get a good nature), Butterfree(makes pokemon sleep), and if im hunting like elect/steel a pokemon with static/magnet pull(elekid,and i think magnazone) :P