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I cant believe i've never found a shiney pokemon!!!!

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Iheartpokemon

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Whats wrong with me!? i've played over 90 hours in LeafGreen and i havent even seen one!! I know its random and you have a 1 in 8000-something chance of finding one, but dont yall think i should have encountered at least one by now?
 
Dude, I've been playing a grand total of ten years and I've only ever caught two, a sableye and a torkoal. Trust me, some people NEVER see them. There's like a 1 in 8000 chance or something.
 
Hey, I've only ever encountered 1 shiny (besides the Red Gyarados) in every Pokémon game I've played, and I've played (Red, Yellow), Gold, Silver, Ruby, Emerald, FireRed, LeafGreen, Diamond and Platinum...and the Pokémon I saw was a damn Zubat.

Be glad you're not trying to get on the Mirage Island.
 
I've NEVER seen a random shiny, sure I've chained a few and RNG'ed a lot but never been lucky enough to see a random shiny. I wonder if its possible for the 'always' shiny gyrados to be non shiny....
 
Also, 90 hours? Dude, I'm sorry but that's not even four days worth. There are some people here who have WEEKS worth of hours.

And Freddie, no it's not possible. THAT'S WHY IT'S THE "'always' shiny gyrados"
 
I only ever caught one shiny back in Gold (that is one apart from the Red Gyarados...I had a silver Rattata) that was before I even knew what shinies was, I just knew that Rattata was special and threw an ultra ball at it the moment I saw it:B

Since then I've tried chaining, Matsuda method with various Pokèmon and well...just looking around. Never got one... Only two in a trade, one of which I'm not sure its legit (Lanturn) the other is a cloned Shokotan Pichu.
 
Ryuutakesh! said:
Also, 90 hours? Dude, I'm sorry but that's not even four days worth. There are some people here who have WEEKS worth of hours.

And Freddie, no it's not possible. THAT'S WHY IT'S THE "'always' shiny gyrados"
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well thats just 90 hrs in one game. i've got like 75 in FireRed, 80 in gold, 70 in silver and tons on hrs in the original blue
 
Ryuutakesh! said:
And Freddie, no it's not possible. THAT'S WHY IT'S THE "'always' shiny gyrados"
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Oh, just thinking out loud I guess :p

and yeh 90hours is nothing, I had 400 on my sapphire, 150 on my leafgreen, 200 on my pearl and 194 on my platinum. Thats just over 900 hours and Ive never seen a random one.

Of course my brother found a shiny jolly staravia after about 2 hours play time -_-

EDIT: there are no shinys in blue
 
freddie515 said:
EDIT: there are no shinys in blue
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Actually there are. But you won't know unless you send them over to Gold, Silver or Crystal:B (or use Stadium 2) I sent my Rattata to Red and back and it stayed Shiny all the way through. Shininiess is decided by IVs in the first generations, so if the status matches, the Pokèmon will be shiny, even if its caught in RBY.
 
Usagi-Zakura said:
Actually there are. But you won't know unless you send them over to Gold, Silver or Crystal:B (or use Stadium 2) I sent my Rattata to Red and back and it stayed Shiny all the way through. Shininiess is decided by IVs in the first generations, so if the status matches, the Pokèmon will be shiny, even if its caught in RBY.
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That's not really the same thing.

Is there even a point to this thread?
 
Usagi-Zakura said:
Actually there are. But you won't know unless you send them over to Gold, Silver or Crystal:B (or use Stadium 2) I sent my Rattata to Red and back and it stayed Shiny all the way through. Shininiess is decided by IVs in the first generations, so if the status matches, the Pokèmon will be shiny, even if its caught in RBY.
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But I thought gen1 didnt have any IV's ?
Yeh I heard about the 'ditto glitch' in r/b/y to get a shiny ditto, didnt think it worked for others though

Ryuutakesh! said:
That's not really the same thing.

Is there even a point to this thread?
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Dont think so
 
freddie515 said:
But I thought gen1 didnt have any IV's ?
Yeh I heard about the 'ditto glitch' in r/b/y to get a shiny ditto, didnt think it worked for others though
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Gen I does have IVs, just no shinies. Of course, instead of the 31 IVs, there were 15 DVs. Each DV was worth 2 stat points at L100 instead of the IVs being one. Same system for both Gen I/II.

If you caught a Pokemon with the 'shiny' DVs in RBY and traded it to GSC, it would be shiny upon arrival.

I have done the shiny Ditto glitch, but that is for Ditto only. However, if you breed your shiny Ditto in GSC, you have a 1:64 chance of getting a shiny.

To the original poster, 90 hours isn't a lot on these games. I have gone 400+ hours in Diamond without seeing a random encounter shiny. I had nearly 200 hours in Crystal before I saw one. I haven't played the Advance games to any high times but the fact is that sometimes you just get lucky, and sometimes you don't.
 
I've played Gold, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed twice, Diamond and Platinum with over a hundred hours on each and ''never seen a shiny Pokémon''.

Yeah, play some more.
 
Iheartpokemon said:
Whats wrong with me!? i've played over 90 hours in LeafGreen and i havent even seen one!! I know its random and you have a 1 in 8000-something chance of finding one, but dont yall think i should have encountered at least one by now?
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Don't listen to these guys, you should definitely have seen a shiny by now after 90 hours. Your game is glitched. You should go buy a new one.
 
TheMissingno. said:
Don't listen to these guys, you should definitely have seen a shiny by now after 90 hours. Your game is glitched. You should go buy a new one.
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Come to think of it, that actually sounds like a good reason. Tue 90 hours isn't much, but I found both my torkoal and sableye within 48.
 
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You ether have to be lucky, or determined, and you probably aren't ether. This... topic is kind of pointless. I've seen about three, if you include Crystal/Gold/Silver (not including Red Gyarados, of course), but I've been able to obtain from many people quite a nice selection (Level 100 shiny Dialga, hell yeya).

They're not even that important, just shiny pixels. No stat boosts or 'nothing.
 
After ten years or so I finally found one about a month ago. Gastly in the Old Chateau. So proud.
 
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