Poll of the Day > My first shiny Pokemon in years

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https://i.imgur.com/HViFv1b.jpg

At least it isn't another Zubat, I had 8 of them spread over the older games.
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which game is that

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Let's Go, Eevee! Got a copy recently since my youngest brother and my nephews want to play the games. Even if the Lets Go games kind of suck, they want to get the bonus pokemon. Also had a Pokeball Plus (without Mew of course, since I bought used).
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Excluding the red Gyarados and Pokemon Go where they're much more common, I've never once encountered a shiny.

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I encountered two, the first one I had no idea what it was, so I let it go. The second was a zubat or something like that I think.

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Grats! I actually got into shiny hunting last year. It's really easy in Omega Ruby. I've found well over 100 shinies since I started hunting in September.
Found this yesterday
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/758836843478384704/801599755318067200/IMG_0142.jpg

And today I found a second shiny Wurmple!

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keyblader1985 posted...

Excluding the red Gyarados and Pokemon Go where they're much more common, I've never once encountered a shiny.

Recent Pokemon games have made shiny hunting really really easy. XY onward basically have dedicated shiny hunting methods, as well as just increased base shiny chance and also the shiny charm which triples the shiny chance. Sword and Shield are kind of the exception, there's not really any built in shiny hunting methods, but if you connect to y-comm and just start joining random raids, you're very likely to join a shiny raid. There's also the raid adventures in the DLC which are 4 back-to-back raids, and each raid has a 1 in 100 chance for shiny after catching it.

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keyblader1985 posted...

Excluding the red Gyarados and Pokemon Go where they're much more common, I've never once encountered a shiny.

I don't have Go since that requires phone data, don't have a plan for that. But I got easily over a dozen in older games.

hypnox posted...

I encountered two, the first one I had no idea what it was, so I let it go. The second was a zubat or something like that I think.

I have had 8 shiny Zubats in older games. I will kill a shiny Zubat if I find another. Well, no, I won't, but I'll wish I did.
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Su, uh, bye sized Weedle chain I was using to level my Bulbasaur for Brock, and hello other Bulbasaur
https://i.imgur.com/EPKXu6a.jpg
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https://i.imgur.com/nYmHp0m.jpg
Seriously, what the fuck?! I got nothing like this when playing Let's Go, Pikachu! so I'm finding it weird Let's Go, Eevee! is shoving so many in my face.
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keyblader1985 posted...

Excluding the red Gyarados and Pokemon Go where they're much more common, I've never once encountered a shiny.

Same. Not even my egg in Crystal was a shiny and iirc that was a 1/4 chance.


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It's always kinda disappointing when you encounter a shiny Pokemon and it's a worthless Pokemon Zubat or a Pokemon with a shitty shiny colour.

A couple of years ago I was completing the Pokedex in Alpha Sapphire and suddenly I hatched a shiny Togepi.

It almost looks the same as the normal colour and I remember being so disappointed that I wasn't hatching a cooler Pokemon that one time.
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LeetCheet posted...

It's always kinda disappointing when you encounter a shiny Pokemon and it's a worthless Pokemon Zubat or a Pokemon with a shitty shiny colour.

A couple of years ago I was completing the Pokedex in Alpha Sapphire and suddenly I hatched a shiny Togepi.

It almost looks the same as the normal colour and I remember being so disappointed that I wasn't hatching a cooler Pokemon that one time.

Idk, I have a lot of "worthless" shinies like Zubat and Zigzagoon, but they have to value to me because I actively sought them out, so there's like a story behind them.

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Back when Sword briefly made Gigantamax Gengar easier to catch, I found 2 shiny ones.

Yes, two
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I got a sewaddle and a litwick in Gen 5. Love both Pokemon so I was overjoyed

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Voltorb in Ruby
Dugtrio in Sword

I think thats all i have found

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LeetCheet posted...

It's always kinda disappointing when you encounter a shiny Pokemon and it's a worthless Pokemon Zubat or a Pokemon with a shitty shiny colour.

The almost the same colour ones are annoying as hell. I hate Zubat (8 shinies will do that, couldn't be something else half those times?), but at least you can tell they are shiny without the stars. Raticate was annoying, I had to check a wiki to see what it was supposed to be. Oh wow, reddish brown rather than tan.
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I have no idea if I ever caught a shiny.
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Revelation34 posted...

I have no idea if I ever caught a shiny.

Some of them are barely any different, others are wildly different. Also they sparkle when they appear. And on their overview screen theres a little star mark that appears if its shiny if youre not sure.

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Got a few more shiny Wurmples and evolved them to see what they do. Unfortunately 3 of them evolved into Cascoon. One did evolve to Silcoon though. So I'm probably just going to hunt a silcoon? We'll see. Eventually I want to get a shiny living dex. lol

Also, except for Cascoon, the entire Wurmple family looks really good shiny!

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Finished the Wurmple family, now for Clamperls!
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/758836843478384704/803337601397817345/IMG_0143.jpg

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Okay, no. This time, I really know I saw this topic last year.

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Soup_or_Science posted...

Okay, no. This time, I really know I saw this topic last year.

Probably mine. I found a shiny Magcargo in Ultra Moon, and it kicked off my shiny hunting career.

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papercup posted...

Probably mine. I found a shiny Magcargo in Ultra Moon, and it kicked off my shiny hunting career.

I wanted to bump it after I saw this thread but it was purged.
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