>been playing since Crystal
>never encountered a shiny
>>26332064
>got 2 shinies in 4 hours on Emerald
>erased the file because I was bored
>"it's only a shiny Taillow, it doesn't matter"
>"I didn't catch that Geodude anyways"
>never seen another one since
>>26332064
Git gud
>>26332064
Well technically that's a lie since you would have encountered the Shiny Gyarados in Lake of Rage.
>>26332064
>been playing since ruby
>encountered at least 15 random shinies, including shiny squirtle
Feels good to be me
Same here.
>>26332144
That doesn't count
I got my first shiny today! It's Trapinch.
>>26332064
>Been playing since Crystal
>Have encountered 3 shinies
I dont mind
>Encountered at least one shiny in every game since Gen 2
It's a good feel
Roommate found a shiny Golbat in SS long before I ever found a wild shiny. He was planning on killing it before I convinced him to catch it, didn't understand how rare it was at the time.
My first wild shiny wasn't until White 2. Found several while playing through Y, however.
I've played since fucking yellow and have only encountered 1 shiny and it was a Sneasel. ....and I somehow lost it. It's like it just disappeared.
>>26332064
I always encounter a shiny around the 300 game hour mark. Is this common?
>chaining
Go to any friend safari and run around for a but. You WILL get one.
I encountered a shiny Whismur twice, and I think a Poocheyana or something
>>26332387
Are the chances higher in safaris?
Same here, played since gen 2 and have played almost every mainline Pokemon game yet never encountered a wild shiny.
>encounter shiny sentret on the first route
>check bag
>i haven't gotten any pokeballs yet
>mfw i ran in the hopes i could find it again one day
>>26332064
>my only shinies are lake of rage gyarados and a gyarados i found while fishing in diamond
>>26332455
Yes. It's 1/5?? Don't remember the exact number 532 maybe?
I've only encountered one shiny in the wild, and that was a shiny wooper in Soul Silver. And I've gotten the Shiny Charm in Y, and I've still not found another wild shiny in the like five or six years since that wooper.
>>26332064
>Got first pokemon game
>Wanted boy mudkip, bad luck, kept getting girl
>Finally get boy
>It's purple
>I fucking hate purple
>Restart game, get normal blue boy
>Realize what I did years later
Still wake up in a cold sweat to this very night
>>26334052
512.
is it known what causes shinies anyway? or their frequency/odds of encounter?
____ ______ __. :^)
Drowzee in Silver is still my only random shiny.
>>26335007
>e-celebs
Since Crystal, I've encountered a shiny (Mareep, during my first ever playthrough of Silver in 2001) and I got Pokerus 3 times (in different games).
>>26332064
>First true shiny was a metapod during a nuzlock
>hatched a shiny Eevee in White
>jump a few years
>XY friend parks
>Shiny Noibat and Electrabuzz two days in a row
>mfw
>Played since red
>only scripted shinies
:(
>one shiny ever in my life
>It was a shitty Chimchar
JUST
>>26335091
Yes. It's to do with a hidden value of a Pokemon called a "personality value" (which also determines gender and I forget what else). If that lines up a certain way with your ID/SID, it's shiny.
The odds depend on the game and some other factors. Generally speaking, in gen 6, the odds of finding a shiny are 1/4096.
>>26335178
>literal cucks
Sucks to be you bro.
>the only shiny I've ever gotten was a heracross on a hacked emerald I was playing via emulator
>mfw find a shiny zubat in Diamond and accidentally kill it trying to weaken it for capture
I've ran into a couple. Caught some. Lost some. Here's my first that I know of. At least memorable, if not useful.
Didn't get any until this gen. Managed to catch a remoraid while randomly fishing and a geodude in a horde encounter that nearly died to the other geodudes magnitudes. Then I got my shiny charm and bred an aegislash and an aggron. Keep trying.
Go fucking fish chain in XY or ORAS and stop whining.
