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Worst Shiny Experience

Dragonmage said:
The ONLY shiny pokemon I've ever seen in the wild is a Ralts. Do you want to know where? It was the one Wally caught in Emerald. -_-
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Had a similar experience on Fire Red, where the Weedle that the Old Man teaches you how to catch was shiny. Sure, I didn't have to see it again, but I probably felt the same way you did just having to watch it happen and not be able to do anything about it.

My other bad experience was seeing a Shiny Paras in the Safari Zone on Fire Red. I was down to one last Safari Ball, and I didn't want to chance throwing a rock at it, so I crossed my fingers and threw the ball. It escaped after two shakes, and my Safari game was over.
 
Itstoppedatumbreon said:
my first shiny i met ( apart from gyarados!) was in diamond, and was a...
Shiny friggin Magikarp
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This, Except cystal/silver(forget) version, and in the friggin Dragon's Den.

I do have a relatively good experience with them otherwise.
 
My first 2 shinies were my worst shiny experiences. The first one was a Zubat in FR and I accidently ran before realizing that it was a shiny. My second was a Rattata in FR when I was on Route 1 and didn't had a Pokedex. :(
 
Running from a shiny Boldore in Black, which was a shame cos it looks nice.

I did catch a shiny Drilbur months later to make up for it. He's an Excadrill now.
 
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The only bad shiny experience I've had is a relatively common one - encountering a shiny Geodude, then watching it blow itself up.
 
I've only ever seen one shiny, and I caught it... so I haven't really had any bad experiences. It was a pidgey in Crystal though, so I guess it sucks that I can't use it in any current games.
 
Well I once cought a shiny geodude in Pokémon Emarald and I cought another shiny in HG but it was a spearow .
I liked the geodude but I hate spearows .
 
My worst experience is when I soft resetted on a shiny giratina after wasting days hunting for it. Another one would be when I encountered a Shiny Hoppip on Crystal while I had no Pokedex.
 
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My worst experience was finding a shiny Electrike in Ruby, which didn't get captured in my only great ball. Made me sooo angry. I also kind of liked Manectric back then, so it was really sad.
 
Probably finding a shiny Zigzagoon, but thinking it was normal, and just running. Worst mistake I ever made. Tears are shed from the memory.
 
The first shiny I found in B/W was the Patrat Prof.Juniper caught at the first route. :(
 
My dad's girlfriend got her first pokemon game a week ago.
I was SO expecting her to find a shiny and not catch it.

She did, however, catch loads of Purrloins and yesterday say to me "I didn't know you had to train your pokemon. I thought you just caught them."
 
Wandering around on Diamond version. I was on that route between Jubilife and Oreburgh (ahaha probably spelled those wrong because I don't pay enough attention). Then boom encountered my first shiny.

A Bidoof.

I didn't really care but caught it anyway. Then forgot I had him/her and deleted the save file. x: Lost my first shiny darn it.
 
I have not encountered a shiny since Gen 2 Days....
The one Shiny I have seen was in Fire red but it was one of the Battle Tower trainer's Meowths >_>

Although this is not something that happened to me personally, I would still count this as a "bad shiny experience"

A friend of mine was playing one of the Core Gen 3 Games (I can't remember which one of the top of my head) and managed to catch a shiny Electrike. His friend though it would be absolutely hilarious to rip the Gameboy out of his hands, and shut the game off before he had a chance to save it. He hasn't even encountered a Shiny since.
 
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