gaming Pokemon X and Y Discussion Thread

[Moonlight Magician 494]

I've only had ONE shiny encounter in my 11 years of playing Pokémon. Wanna know which pokemon it was? A WOOBAT.. a freakin Woobat.. -_-

[iceestarz 5,765]

In pokemon fire red I found a shiny zubat. I still ran away though, screw them. I wanted out of the cave as fast as I could. 

 

And in pokemon diamond I found a shiny drifloon. I was about to just pass it up as I walked by valley windworks, but I thought "eh, why the hay not?" to my surprise it was a shiny so hecks yea I caught it!

[Moved to Elsewhere 11,331]

Well, when I was playing Heartgold I ran into a shiny Pidgy, but didn't have any balls   

 

Also, I did one of the shiny tricks in X and got a shiny Staryu.

[ArcherSlamBAM 25]

In FireRed, while going through Cinnabar Mansion, I came across a shiny Raticate. Raticates, as you know, aren't very good- I caught it with great quickiness.

[Bada3oom Box 77]

First legit Shiny I ran into was a Scyther on original Silver during the Bug Catching Contest. Before I found (and caught it) I didn't know others besides Gyrados had alternate colors so I was pretty stoked when I won the contest with it.

 

I also found a Shiny Gastly on Leaf Green outside of Lavender Town, caught that one too. Then there was the Safari Zone moment where I ran into a Chansey while looking for a Lucky Egg on Fire Red. It got away. TWO Pokemon encounters later, I found a Shiny Venomoth. Which also fled. Without an ActionReplay those were the only Shiny Pokemon I've encountered.

[mars 4,862]

uuhhhh. *thinks hard*

Shiny Shroomish: Sapphire

Shiny Lotad: Emerald

Shiny Kricketune: Pearl

Shiny Totodile: HeartGold

Shiny Growlithe (I gave it to my sister): HeartGold

Shiny Watchog: White 2
Shiny Seedot: Emerald

 

all chance encounters.

(edit: I knew I was missing something!)

Edited July 30, 2014 by Destiny

[Banul 3,831]

I never get shiny Pokemon I actually like. Last one I got was a shiny Durant. I guess I should be grateful, some people never even see shiny Pokemon.

[Callisto 1,877]

I've found two shinies in my life: Geodude in Pearl, and Gulpin in Emerald. I think I still have the Gulpin, but I have no idea what happened to the Geodude.

[Celtore 2,770]

Congratulations! I recently came across a shiny quagsire. Other than that, I've ran into a shiny ponyta in gold (gbc) and a shiny skarmory in gen 4. I've also caught a shiny basculin by chain fishing, but it's honestly crap in colour and species.

 

I really want to breed myself a shiny vulpix in X and Y eventually too. Ninetales is one of my favourites and she has an amazing shiny.

[Magnum Flare 553]

Playing Platinum

 

Encounter

A

Shiny

Rattata

 

What the hell am I going to do with you!?
 

[KokuraiNoSenshi 3,463]

Shiny Pidgey in Fire Red

Shiny Beldum in one of the Gen 4 Game's (forget which one)

Shiny pre-evolution Weevile (forget the name) same game as the above

[Odyssey 5,717]

Congratulations on the Shiny Noctowl! I think Noctowl has a nice shiny forme. *u*

 

My first shiny encounter is a Hoppip in SoulSilver. One day, I got tired of training my Pokémon, so I tried to look for a Chansey holding a Lucky Egg. I didn't really had much success in the first two days, but upon the third day around 5 in the morning, I encountered the green, sparkling blob.

 

After that, my luck on finding Shiny Pokémon has increased greatly. From 2011 to 2014, I have found 14 Shinies, which I find surprising since I couldn't find any Shinies before then.

 

And since I'm rather proud of the Shinies I catch, I'm going to leave this photo I took of a certain one I found. Take note of the form differences section on the right.

 

 

[Photon Jet 5,491]

I remember on Pokémon X when I encountered a shiny Dwebble and a shiny Riolu in the Friend Safari. I certainly was lucky to find those Pokémon.

 

However, I also hatched some shiny Pokémon while breeding. For example, I hatched a shiny Bulbasaur and a shiny Gible. That's all I can remember.

Edited July 30, 2014 by Photon Jet

[PoisonClaw 8,166]

I have had all of two encounters with shinies since I started playing Pokemon. The first was a shiny Jinx in Gold when I had no idea what shinies were (apart from the fact that you could catch a red Gyarados) and the second was a shiny Gligar in Y. I'm pretty sure my family heard my squeals of joy from the floor below me.

[Minepro 107]

I once found a shiny gyarados, but it broke out of EVERY SINGLE POKEBALL I threw at it! Even my master ball!!! So I had to faint it. I had about 20 hits clocked in with my caterpie anyway and needed the XP.

[Bada3oom Box 77]

Shiny pre-evolution Weevile (forget the name) same game as the above

SNEASEL!! My favorite Pokemon!

Oh and I forgot to mention the one shiny I did get through breeding on Y Version. I did manage to get a shiny Seedot that I evolved into Nuzleaf, and I decided to give him the nickname, DeezNuz, traded him away for a shiny Mawile, though.

[Silver Clouds 9]

I once found a shiny Seaking, and had no idea what a shiny was at the time...  :okiedokielokie:  Luckily my friends were watching me play and they told me to catch it. I owe them. I still have it in my PC now... 

[M'aiq the Liar 5,804]

I have never found a legitimate shiny pokemon. The only ones I had ever encountered were the result of a hack after emulating the game

[Minepro 107]

Don't feel bad, I've never had a shiny before either. And if I DID manage to catch one, I'd put up a video on YouTube in a split second.

[Scarlet Letter 138]

Does anyone have a shiny Froakie or Honedge?

[FortyTwo42 1,287]

I've only gotten a Shiny Pokemon once during my entire time playing Pokemon. It was a Medicham in Pokemon Pearl.

[Radiance64 7,053]

Hm, we talkin' shinies now...

In gen 4 I got a shiny Octillery randomly fishing in Diamond and a shiny Slowpoke while EV training my Machoke in HeartGold, and I made sure I got all 3 of the shiny event legendary beasts(I got 2 Suicune even). Gen 5 however, no Pokémon would shine for me sadly...

This game though, it gave me 4- Abra and Shuppet from the Friend Safari, Zweilous randomly in the wild, and a Charmander from egg hatching when I wasn't even trying for one. Generous, game, generous.

Anyway, I haven't done much in this game lately actually.

[Barbaloot 198]

Speaking of Shinies, I've literally found 4 shinies in Gold that weren't a Gyarados. And I couldn't do jack with any of them. 3 of them were in the same Nuzlocke run too.

 

They were:

Shiny Voltorb

Shiny Drowzee

Shiny Krabby

Shiny Ursarang

[Zygen 6,066]

I haven't been playing X and Y much recently to be honest, I played it once to get my Vivillon Pokeball and Vivillon Fancy, but that was like it. 

 

As far as shines go... I can only remember running into 2 shines in my lifetime. One was a shiny wurmpule a long time ago, I no longer had it. It was in Emerald. It became a dustox, but i think I lost my save anyways.

 

The other shiny I got was a shiny Sligoo, However I actually ended up trading it for a friend of mines shiny Eevee, because I love Eevee and all it's evolutions(if you haven't noticed.) But I don't really care for Goodra personally. 

 

So I took the shiny Eevee, and turned him into a shiny Umbreon, so now I have a shiny Umbreon, which considering Umbreon has an awesome shiny form, and is my favorite Pokemon, it's pretty awesome .

 

Now while I haven't encountered many shinies, I've encountered several pokerus viruses on my Pokemon randomly before.

 

Infact, one time I actually got Pokerus twice in one day in two different games! I think I was playing Pokemon White or something and got Pokerus there, then I went to play Heartgold for something(I think it was Heartgold...) and I got another Pokerus! In the same day!

 

Not really as valuable as a shiny in my eyes, but it was still cool considering the chances.

Edited August 8, 2014 by Zygen

[Sazama Ichida 2,367]

Anybody here have a Fire Friend Safari with a Nine Tails and/or a Magmar? If so PM me so we can exchange Friend Codes.

Edited August 8, 2014 by Asbel Lhant