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I've Caught a Shiny Pokemon!!!

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illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-01 02:37:49
July 01 2010 02:35 GMT
#1
This is a continuation of the previous blog here.

I CAUGHT A SHINY POKEMON!!!

Today is Wednesday, so I thought I should go catch some Pokemon using the Hoenn Sound.

I was Route 36 (Hoenn Sound - Plusle and Minun), I tried to step on the grass first before using the Pokegear. And then...


A SHINY HOOTHOOT APPEARED!
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I was overjoyed!

Unfortunately, Hoothoot and its evolution, Noctowl has very uninspiring stats. Also my shiny Hoothoot is female, with a Gentle nature (+SDEF, -DEF), with very low IV (its HP IV is probably ZERO).

Well, I suppose I will just make her learn Fly and use her awesome shininess to carry me around. I got tired of using Lugia as a HM-slave :D It's way more awesome than flying around with Lugia!

**
:]
IndecisivePenguin
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
United States771 Posts
July 01 2010 02:39 GMT
#2
Awesome! I never caught any shinies before. :3

Treat her with love and care!
Navi
Profile Joined November 2009
5286 Posts
July 01 2010 02:43 GMT
#3
lol i remember when i was a kid my friend found a shiny ho-oh... but then he killed it lol D:
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TheAntZ
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Israel6248 Posts
July 01 2010 02:44 GMT
#4
Does fire red/leaf green have shiny pokemanz?
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synapse
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
China13814 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-01 02:45:47
July 01 2010 02:45 GMT
#5
Wow, grats!

I caught my first shiny in Platinum, it was a Ralts, and i desperately wanted a Gallade, but alas the shiny was a female. And impish nature. FML.

One time, I let my little sister play through my FireRed, and she found a shiny venonat in the safari zone... and wasnt able to catch it... I think she cried.
:)
GhostKorean
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
United States2330 Posts
July 01 2010 02:45 GMT
#6
what a terrible pokemon to find a shiny ><
XazXio
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States356 Posts
July 01 2010 02:48 GMT
#7
Lucky too bad hoho kinda sucks
How does food become poo?
MetalMarine
Profile Joined June 2007
United States1559 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-01 02:56:24
July 01 2010 02:49 GMT
#8
Edit PMed you the funny story instead
zergnewb
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States816 Posts
July 01 2010 02:49 GMT
#9
It doesn't even look like a shiny.. and it awesome you caught one though you have a like 1 in 8000 chance to do so.
Welcome to the Durst-Zone
WeSt
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
Portugal918 Posts
July 01 2010 02:49 GMT
#10
What the hell is a shiny pokemanz?
zvz is imba
zergnewb
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States816 Posts
July 01 2010 02:51 GMT
#11
Its a pokemon with a special coloring basicly. They are extremely hard to catch.
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FraCuS
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
United States1072 Posts
July 01 2010 02:52 GMT
#12
I caught a shiny pikachu wayyy back

but my little brother traded in platinum :[
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iLoveKT
Profile Blog Joined October 2008
Philippines3615 Posts
July 01 2010 02:54 GMT
#13
reminds me of the first time I caught a shiny in LG. Too bad it was a caterpie.
Woo Jung Ho
Rkie
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States1278 Posts
July 01 2010 02:57 GMT
#14
first non gyrados shiny i got was a noctowl at the same place that ash got his i believe, that was kinda cool
ZidaneTribal
Profile Joined September 2007
United States2800 Posts
July 01 2010 02:58 GMT
#15
i remember meeting a shiny diglet before i was like WTF ITS NOSE LOOKS STRANGE SOME HOW
fuck lag
orgolove
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
Vatican City State1650 Posts
July 01 2010 02:58 GMT
#16
I've always been wondering with these single player games. Why go through the countless hours of repetitive numbness, when you can just edit them in to make your pokemon of your dreams? Similar to games like football manager etc... These are single player games. Might as well enjoy it to the fullest, instead of wasting hours.. days.. weeks.. months... YEARS on some fruitless task.
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seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
July 01 2010 02:59 GMT
#17
i caught a [image loading] >:D

sadly, it was quiet, so not really useful =\
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seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-01 03:00:33
July 01 2010 03:00 GMT
#18
On July 01 2010 11:58 orgolove wrote:
I've always been wondering with these single player games. Why go through the countless hours of repetitive numbness, when you can just edit them in to make your pokemon of your dreams? Similar to games like football manager etc... These are single player games. Might as well enjoy it to the fullest, instead of wasting hours.. days.. weeks.. months... YEARS on some fruitless task.

b/c its not actually single player! you can actually battle people and flaunt your shinies in their face!

edit: woops double posted lol
boomer hands
leejas
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States440 Posts
July 01 2010 03:06 GMT
#19
shiny flying hoothoot to take you around in STYLEEEEE
Nal_rAwr
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
United States2611 Posts
July 01 2010 03:10 GMT
#20
haha thx for showing us ur pokemans


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paper
Profile Blog Joined September 2004
13196 Posts
July 01 2010 03:10 GMT
#21
I had a shiny tauros back in the day ;3... super useless
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Lightswarm
Profile Blog Joined November 2008
Canada967 Posts
July 01 2010 03:12 GMT
#22
noctowl is a decent special wall
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Hidden_MotiveS
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
Canada2562 Posts
July 01 2010 03:19 GMT
#23
Besides the gyrados, I remember catching a shiny pikachu, false swipe scyther in silver iirc, and then one or two other shinies. One of them was a flying type, can't remember what it was. My friend lied to me and told me there was a shiny cave full of lvl 100 shinies
kineSiS-
Profile Blog Joined September 2009
Korea (South)1068 Posts
July 01 2010 03:22 GMT
#24
WOW YAYAYAAYA!
zergnewb
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States816 Posts
July 01 2010 03:23 GMT
#25
I've never caught a shiny.
Welcome to the Durst-Zone
holy_war
Profile Blog Joined July 2007
United States3590 Posts
July 01 2010 03:28 GMT
#26
On July 01 2010 11:48 XazXio wrote:
Lucky too bad hoho kinda sucks


Troll much? lol. Ho-oh is amazing with Sacred Fire/ Brave Bird/ Earthquake/ Roost
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
Last Edited: 2010-07-01 03:34:03
July 01 2010 03:30 GMT
#27
On July 01 2010 12:12 Lightswarm wrote:
noctowl is a decent special wall


On the Never-Used tier?

Besides, when playing against the environment, only sweepers are useful.

On July 01 2010 12:10 paper wrote:
I had a shiny tauros back in the day ;3... super useless


Tauros is actually a pretty decent pokemon with decent attack and speed. It makes a good normal sweeper.
:]
koreasilver
Profile Blog Joined June 2008
9109 Posts
July 01 2010 03:30 GMT
#28
Let us reminisce of our shiny pokemon.

[image loading]
johnlee
Profile Joined June 2009
United States242 Posts
July 01 2010 03:32 GMT
#29
I remember when I turned off the game LITERALLY about a couple thousand times, in front of Lugia, so I could catch a shiny one hahahahahahaha.

It works though!
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
July 01 2010 03:36 GMT
#30
On July 01 2010 12:32 johnlee wrote:
I remember when I turned off the game LITERALLY about a couple thousand times, in front of Lugia, so I could catch a shiny one hahahahahahaha.

It works though!


I salute to your efforts... O_o

I can't imagine doing this myself... then again I might be biased. I use my Lugia as HM slave because I don't really like Lugia XD
:]
]343[
Profile Blog Joined May 2008
United States10328 Posts
July 01 2010 03:45 GMT
#31
On July 01 2010 12:36 illu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 01 2010 12:32 johnlee wrote:
I remember when I turned off the game LITERALLY about a couple thousand times, in front of Lugia, so I could catch a shiny one hahahahahahaha.

It works though!


I salute to your efforts... O_o

I can't imagine doing this myself... then again I might be biased. I use my Lugia as HM slave because I don't really like Lugia XD


lugia is awesome

I always end up using Victreebel as an HM slave (in Silver, I gave it sweet scent/flash/cut, and in Crystal [emulator version!] I gave it flash/cut...)

and then I gave gyarados strength lol
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imDerek
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
United States1944 Posts
July 01 2010 03:57 GMT
#32
i have pokerus and a shiny gyarados (from the lake) with maxed attack iv
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Sight
Profile Blog Joined February 2010
United States148 Posts
July 01 2010 04:00 GMT
#33
On July 01 2010 12:36 illu wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 01 2010 12:32 johnlee wrote:
I remember when I turned off the game LITERALLY about a couple thousand times, in front of Lugia, so I could catch a shiny one hahahahahahaha.

It works though!


I salute to your efforts... O_o

I can't imagine doing this myself... then again I might be biased. I use my Lugia as HM slave because I don't really like Lugia XD

My friend did this for mewtwo. For weeks. Finally, the shiny appeared...and he shut it off out of habit.
Sentient66
Profile Joined July 2009
United States651 Posts
July 01 2010 04:13 GMT
#34
Dude, congrats. I remember I was once surfing, and ran into a shiny tentacruel, but I had no ultra balls.
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JIJIyO
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1957 Posts
July 01 2010 04:13 GMT
#35
Pretty cool how you're soon going to have Ash's only shiny pokemon once it evolves. I caught a shiny once, sadly it was on an emulator TT
KT_Violet
Malgrif
Profile Blog Joined March 2010
Canada1095 Posts
July 01 2010 04:26 GMT
#36
why does it only have one foot?
for there to be pro there has to be noob.
Mingeek
Profile Joined March 2010
United States35 Posts
July 01 2010 04:38 GMT
#37
Congrats! :D I remember catching a shiny Noctowl, and was overjoyed. Until I realized I couldn't tell the difference :'(
CagedMind
Profile Joined February 2010
United States506 Posts
July 01 2010 11:39 GMT
#38
On July 01 2010 13:13 JIJIyO wrote:
Pretty cool how you're soon going to have Ash's only shiny pokemon once it evolves. I caught a shiny once, sadly it was on an emulator TT

Isn't there a way to trade from comp to ds?
your micro has been depleted
Ikiron
Profile Blog Joined April 2010
United States88 Posts
July 01 2010 12:14 GMT
#39
I still have my shiny metagross that I used in fights, gosh hes a freaking beast, I wouldn't trade him for a full team of fully trained iv and good stats pokemon. NEVER!
Why be the best when you can die like the rest.
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
July 01 2010 13:33 GMT
#40
On July 01 2010 20:39 CagedMind wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 01 2010 13:13 JIJIyO wrote:
Pretty cool how you're soon going to have Ash's only shiny pokemon once it evolves. I caught a shiny once, sadly it was on an emulator TT

Isn't there a way to trade from comp to ds?

nope. not a chance.
boomer hands
Kyuukyuu
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada6263 Posts
July 01 2010 15:46 GMT
#41
I had a shiny Ponyta in Silver, I think. That was like ten years ago and I've played every Pokemon game since and found none >_>

My friend found two shiny Magcargos lol, the first time he didn't have any pokeballs on him and the second time he was doing some co-op double battle thing in D/P and his teammate killed it haha
alffla
Profile Blog Joined November 2005
Hong Kong20321 Posts
July 01 2010 15:57 GMT
#42
wtf is this shiny pokemon madness.

ive only played up to pokemon gold and silver lol im too old school for this
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JIJIyO
Profile Blog Joined January 2009
Canada1957 Posts
July 01 2010 16:00 GMT
#43
On July 01 2010 22:33 seRapH wrote:
Show nested quote +
On July 01 2010 20:39 CagedMind wrote:
On July 01 2010 13:13 JIJIyO wrote:
Pretty cool how you're soon going to have Ash's only shiny pokemon once it evolves. I caught a shiny once, sadly it was on an emulator TT

Isn't there a way to trade from comp to ds?

nope. not a chance.

I also remembered it was a fucking Shroomish from R/S/E.........Omg........Breloom turned into a beast in D/P/Pt. Doesn't matter though since I lost the save file. And I have Pokesav if I ever wanted a real team haha.
KT_Violet
seRapH
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States9808 Posts
July 01 2010 16:15 GMT
#44
On July 02 2010 00:57 alffla wrote:
wtf is this shiny pokemon madness.

ive only played up to pokemon gold and silver lol im too old school for this

there were shinies in gen 1 and 2. you just weren't AWESOME enough to get them

+ Show Spoiler +
jk, alfalfa, you're awesome!
boomer hands
illu
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
Canada2531 Posts
July 01 2010 16:21 GMT
#45
On July 02 2010 00:46 Kyuukyuu wrote:
I had a shiny Ponyta in Silver, I think. That was like ten years ago and I've played every Pokemon game since and found none >_>

My friend found two shiny Magcargos lol, the first time he didn't have any pokeballs on him and the second time he was doing some co-op double battle thing in D/P and his teammate killed it haha


I'd just throw master ball and avoid any mishaps.
:]
AleC
Profile Joined December 2009
332 Posts
July 01 2010 16:40 GMT
#46
In crystal version ya know that guy who owns the daycare?
Ya know how he gives you a egg?
He gave me an egg.
Inside was a magby.
It was shiny.

Needless to say I treated that magmar like a prince
showkjh
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
Canada110 Posts
July 02 2010 01:51 GMT
#47
I caught a shiny mankey once and I was like HOLY SHIT WHY IS IT THAT COLOUR, then I was like OH RIGHT SHINIES

Then I reset my game after beating it and afterwards I was like "oh shit right my shiny mankey" >:
ibanez
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
75 Posts
July 02 2010 01:59 GMT
#48
I found a shiny rhyhorn in the safari zone. It fled :[
Quanticfograw
Profile Blog Joined October 2005
United States2053 Posts
July 02 2010 11:54 GMT
#49
rofl, pokemon is timeless. I really really wish that they would make a great consule game ratheer then just doing nice gameboy games
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Hesmyrr
Profile Blog Joined May 2010
Canada5776 Posts
July 02 2010 15:25 GMT
#50
I caught a shiny green Tentacool, which I suppose is not astounding accomplishment considering how many of them appear when you are trying to cross the damned sea -_-

Traded it away to my friend for all legendaries I couldn't get in my version of the game as I was not hardcore enough to care about collecting them in first place.
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TOloseGT
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States1145 Posts
July 02 2010 18:14 GMT
#51
I met a shiny geodude in Hayward Cave in plat, I was so excited because I restocked on pokeballs a couple minutes before.

Then geodude self-destructed first turn.
tarpman
Profile Joined February 2009
Canada723 Posts
July 02 2010 18:27 GMT
#52
I haven't run into any shinies yet besides the Gyarados. I'm jealous Still working on FR though so there's still a chance!
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