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My shiny Pokemon

I’ve been pretty lucky with regard to shiny pokemon throughout my time playing the games. I suppose if you play for long enough, your going to encounter some shines eventually. I should mention that all of these pokemon were full-odds encounters. I don’t enjoy shiny-hunting. I don’t have the patience, and I really enjoy the surprise of finding a random shiny while on your adventure. Looking through my old games, I found plenty of hacked shiny pokemon, but these are my legit finds.  Shiny Pidgeot (encountered ~2005) I found this guy as a pidgey in Pokemon Leaf Green, on Three Island. I’m pretty sure this was my first shiny pokemon. I don’t have any fun stories of me thinking I’d found a glitch or anything like that. I knew what I’d found, and I made sure to catch it. 

Shiny Swellow (encountered ~2005) Back in the day, Pokemon Sapphire was my go-to replay game. On one of these playthroughs, I though it’d be really cool to name my character ‘?’, thinking that it’d be fun to look back on my pokemon and see that their original trainer wasn’t known. I then immediately encountered a taillow, right outside Petalburg. I immediately regretted my naming choice. 

Shiny Tropius and Shiny Sentret (encountered ~ 2006)

I’m grouping these together because I found them both in my first playthrough of Pokemon Colosseum. I found Sentret first, and then Tropius later on in the game. Now these are especially interesting, because due to a glitch, it’s extremely hard to find shiny pokemon in those games. From what I understand, the pokemon’s ID values are re-rolled when captured in those games, so if you find a shiny pokemon and capture it, it’ll likely turn into a regular pokemon once captured (although regular pokemon may also transition into shiny mons).  Now my best theory is that this glitch doesn’t exist in the PAL region versions of the game, because I found two shinies in my playthrough, both were shiny before I caught them, and retained their shiny status afterwards. That’s already stupid-unlikely, but to make it worse, I KNOCKED OUT THE TROPIUS! In Colosseum, if you knock out a shadow pokemon, there’s a chance to find it and capture it again later, and when I rebattled the tropius, it was still shiny! I honestly thought these must be scripted to be permanently shiny, like the red gyarados, and was pretty confused when I replayed the game for the first time. To this day, that tropius is my luckies find ever in a pokemon game. 

Extra story: back in the gen V days, my tropius used to be picked up by hack-detectors, because its IVs were good enough for the software to think I caught it through RNG abuse (12,29,31,25,23,2). Colour me chuffed :)

Shiny Escavalier (encountered 2013)

I found this fabulous specimen on Route 6 of my playthrough of Pokemon White, while looking for a Deerling. I love this boi, even though it wasn’t really suitable to use in my playthrough. 

Shiny Electrike (Encountered 2014)

Now this guy.... I honestly dont remember it at all. It’s seemingly legit, it came from Sapphire, and I remember using the name Marina, but yeah I suppose this one didn’t make much of an impression. I’m glad I have it though. It’s very pretty. 

Shiny Voltorb (encountered 2018)

I found this one in a playthrough of a hacked Pokemon Leaf Green on my phone. A lot of the wild pokemon were altered, but somehow I found this guy at his legal level and location, right outside the power plant. I named him Great Ball. 

Shiny Chatot (encountered 2018)

My most recent shiny encounter, and one of my favorites. This was found in a difficulty hack of Pokemon Alpha Sapphire. I actually was using a chatot on my team at the time, and was grinding in the grass to evolve my nincada for the dex. I had one space free in my party, and nincada was at level 19. Then I found a shiny version of one of my favorite pokemon. I caught it, of course, and then my nincada evolved with the experience. I laughed aloud when i realized my new chatot had taken up the last spot in my party, depriving me from attaining a shedinja. What a jerk, I love him. 

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