Re: The Official GRcade Pokémon Shiny Hunters Club!
Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2021 8:55 pm
Sweet. Hope you can join.
Herdanos wrote:
If it's possible without I should be able to join.
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Herdanos wrote:Ah well! I'll let you know if I get it.
Regarding my own personal shiny history:
I've had a Red Gyarados, rather unsurprisingly, several times, as I've played through Silver at least twice, Crystal, and HeartGold. I also obtained one of the event Max Raid shiny Magikarp on Sword last year, and evolved it.
I don't recall any other prior shiny encounters so I doubt I've had any, so the first organic shiny encounter I've had was also on HeartGold. I found a shiny Tangela at Mt Silver. The subsequent green Tangrowth became a useful party roster member for using HMs and helping me catch other Pokemon using Stun Spore. Good ol' Greenpasta.
And then finally, this happened:
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Herdanos wrote:Oh that's silly of me, yes it is. I completed a runthrough of Sword using basically the Pokemon I liked best that I found along the way - as Gen 8 was my first since Gen 4 there were lots that were new to me! After I beat the game I decided to make a more viable competitive team with six new 'mon, so started hatching eggs for some of those I wanted to use where my caught 'mon had poor stats. Think it was my fifth or sixth Jango-o egg which hatched shiny
GrinWithoutaKat wrote:And got the shiny bulbasaur! Good timing as the Switch update has almost caught me out a few times coming out of sleep mode as it's already got update selected and I think one press of A would have closed my game and killed my combo.
The Doom Spoon wrote:GrinWithoutaKat wrote:And got the shiny bulbasaur! Good timing as the Switch update has almost caught me out a few times coming out of sleep mode as it's already got update selected and I think one press of A would have closed my game and killed my combo.
Ahh nice work man! I hope it didn't take you too long to obtain?
GrinWithoutaKat wrote:The Doom Spoon wrote:GrinWithoutaKat wrote:And got the shiny bulbasaur! Good timing as the Switch update has almost caught me out a few times coming out of sleep mode as it's already got update selected and I think one press of A would have closed my game and killed my combo.
Ahh nice work man! I hope it didn't take you too long to obtain?
Didn’t feel long at all compare to the other two. I did it without a lure as there were just too many pokemon on screen. I’d want to run to the bulbasaur and wouldn’t be able to get to it without hitting 2-3 Pokemon on the way
Shall be diving into Gen 8 now so I can hopefully jump into any future Dynamax stuff with you guys.
Tsunade wrote:I haven't ever been on a shiny hunt before, I've only really stumbled on to a couple of them myself.
Red gyarados like everyone else
Shiny tangela - this one was quite interesting. I found it at Mt silver and it was in the grass but escaped. I managed to run into it again 2 more times (I'd managed to do damage to it and it was still showing the damage on its HP bar) before catching it. I had no idea you could run into the exact same mon again!
Shiny Nidorino - caught this in the safari zone in crystal and had no idea it was Shiny till I looked at it in the PC. I evolved it into a lovely pink nidoking
Shiny whismur - this was the first whismur I had encountered so I had no idea it was Shiny till I saw the next few in the cave!
I don't think I've caught any since. I did have a Shiny spinda gifted to me in black 2 as it's my favourite pokemon (also the only pokemon with 401 different Shiny variations due to every pattern having a Shiny version!). Gutted it was one of the pokemon that doesn't appear in sword and shield. I'd love to see a dynamax one!