Pokémon!

[Immitis]

I think you're a little too upset over a game save.

It's happened to me, yeah it was a little disappointing, but I wasn't mad at them about it.

It's just a game dude.

not true at all. ive completed the pokedex, i have over a thousand hours worth of playtime throughout all my game saves.

if someone deleted my save file, somebodys getting stabbed :P

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also a druddgidon stone was found.

[Djuntas]

Never seen a shinny myself, else tough I done quit abit off grass grinding, but guess the chance is still way to little.

Shinny pokemons truely are rare. I read people with the shinny luck increasing item still make like 1.5k egg's and no shinny.

[Halyon]

Never seen a shinny myself, else tough I done quit abit off grass grinding, but guess the chance is still way to little.

Shinny pokemons truely are rare. I read people with the shinny luck increasing item still make like 1.5k egg's and no shinny.

You can use the Masuda method. Trade a foreign language pokemon and breed it with one of your own (I don't think Ditto's count though) and the chance for a shiny will increase dramatically. ^^

Having it hold an Everstone cancels the effect though, so if you want a specific nature, you're out of luck there.

I've had 2 shinies using that method, others aside from that as well, but that's just because I got lucky really.

[UnkLegacy]

You can use the Masuda method. Trade a foreign language pokemon and breed it with one of your own (I don't think Ditto's count though) and the chance for a shiny will increase dramatically. ^^

Having it hold an Everstone cancels the effect though, so if you want a specific nature, you're out of luck there.

I've had 2 shinies using that method, others aside from that as well, but that's just because I got lucky really.

In Gen V, everstone doesn't affect the Masuda method. Dittos count too. I've gotten a few shinys this way, but my luck it's never the right nature or ability. Looking at you shiny Sassy Scyther... Forcing me to make a TR team.

[Halyon]

In Gen V, everstone doesn't affect the Masuda method. Dittos count too. I've gotten a few shinys this way, but my luck it's never the right nature or ability. Looking at you shiny Sassy Scyther... Forcing me to make a TR team.

It isn't the exact same for B/W and B/W2 so I was unsure what to say about Ditto/Everstone.

I've had a shiny Solosis, and it only had Overcoat and Quiet nature. The Quiet nature's ok I guess, unsure if it helps Trick Room or not though, I gifted it away to a friend, so didn't test it. The other Shiny I got from breeding was an Axew. Modest nature and really crappy stats. Q_Q

The rest of my shinies have been wild pokemon oddly enough. Female Nidoran in Crystal, Sandshrew in Sapphire, a Rayquaza that made me shit my pants to catch it (decent stats and modest nature, so yai it was usable) in Heartgold.

[Poppincaps]

The only two shinies I've caught were a Shiny Hoothoot and a Shiny Dunsparce... A. Shiny. Dunsparce. And of course a Shiny Suicune from the Nintendo event a year ago or so.

[Halyon]

The only two shinies I've caught were a Shiny Hoothoot and a Shiny Dunsparce... A. Shiny. Dunsparce. And of course a Shiny Suicune from the Nintendo event a year ago or so.

But a shiny Dunsparce is so cool! D: You can use the ParaStun set with ..~~style~~..!!

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I've encountered shiny ditto, sandshrew, voltorb and dratini. The only one I wasn't able to catch was dratini because it appeared in Safari

[Immitis]

they should make it so if you have a shiny pokemon it becomes like 50% chance to have a shiny hatch if you breed it.

[Venziir]

Met a Shiny Abra once... Yeah you can all guess what happened next.

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Met a Shiny Abra once... Yeah you can all guess what happened next.

You threw a master ball and it failed?

[Redmage]

You threw a master ball and it failed?

This is exactly why I never use my masterball, not even on legendaries.
Just in case.

True story, I've never thrown a masterball.

[Recyclops]

True story, my first masterball was used on a slowpoke.

[UnkLegacy]

This is exactly why I never use my masterball, not even on legendaries.
Just in case.

True story, I've never thrown a masterball.

Me either. I haven't used any since R&B with Missing No. glitch. Just too worried I'll waste it.

It's the same with WoW. I'm a terrible tank because I never use cooldowns because I might need them later.

[Redmage]

Me either. I haven't used any since R&B with Missing No. glitch. Just too worried I'll waste it.

It's the same with WoW. I'm a terrible tank because I never use cooldowns because I might need them later.

In Yellow I thought you could encounter mew randomly, and that the Masterball was your only hope of catching him. So I caught Mewtwo and the birds the hard way.

[Immitis]

i once used a masterball on a wobbufett on silver because my friend lied to me and told me if you release a pokemon you get the ball back

[Redmage]

i once used a masterball on a wobbufett on silver because my friend lied to me and told me if you release a pokemon you get the ball back

and you never spoke to him again, right?

[Immitis]

and you never spoke to him again, right?

nah at this point ruby and saphire had come out. for some reason me and my friends still mostly played gen 2 back when gen 3 was out for like half of that gen

[Romeothecat]

Same problem here. I never use my master ball since there is really no pokemon legendary or not rare enough to justify it.

[Auxis]

I forget, in Gen 1 when you went into the safari zone; you used safari balls right?

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I will forever save my master ball for the obnoxious obligatory Geodude that pretty much always shows up on the route south of Blackthorn City. Dem Self-Destructs.

Disclaimer: Some descriptions of Shiny Geodude rarity may be exaggerated. I've seen 2 Shiny Geodudes on that route between SS and HG.