Congrats to Team Volt Grunt on Kricketune, Doomdour on Froakie, Fleckihund on Eevee and Charmander, WhiteBlair on Growlithe, shinycharizard06 on Mareep, Kanethedragon on Froakie, and everyone else on your shinies!
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I've been soft-resetting for a second Shiny Mewtwo in Soul Silver since the last December or earlier, I think, and...
I finally manage to encounter it, open the home Menu in 3DS, rush to get my phone with the camera and...
CLOSE THE GAME.
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Never press A while having the "Back to Home Menu" option open. This must be the biggest Shiny fail I've ever had.
Very sorry to hear
I would always just take the time to literally stop and think about what you’re about to press, whether it’s an attack, clicking “bag” vs “run”, etc. After spending hours upon hours trying to find a shiny, it’s absolutely worth the solid 5 seconds of extra thought to make sure you’re hitting what you actually want to hit. I’ll generally even re-read the attack I’m about to use and make sure it’s the right one and that I’m not mixing up attack names or something (I’ll look at the other moves available to make sure I didn’t go entirely crazy and start thinking “Poisonpowder” is the move to use instead of “Sleep Powder”). So many people are in a rush to capture a shiny once it appears that instead of spending an extra minute making sure everything’s done correctly, they end up having to spend more weeks on a reclaim. I’ll take extra seconds over extra weeks every time :|
Hope a reclaim comes easily!
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I did a lot of hunting today compared to what I normally do in a day! First I worked on my starters – 200 SRs for Charmander and 100 SRs for Chimchar putting those hunts at 1,800 SRs and 6,500 SRs respectively. Then I did 700 REs on my main games, bringing Black 2 to 15,800 REs, Platinum to 1,300 REs, and HeartGold to 4,000 REs.
I evolved my recent Buneary into Lopunny and got her EV trained, but I still have to train her to 100. I figured that I’d just work on that late at night after I’ve finished hunting for the night as opposed to interrupting hunting to do it. Whenever I finish that, I have to go to Black Tower on Black 2 to make more money for repels, and then I still have to work on getting my next HeartGold file up to the Kanto starter point.
Good luck, everyone (especially
TheMaster327, G-Money, Martinzqx, CharlieDoryRose, Supremacy, umbreonfan3636, Keane, SheroGH, ChaoticInverse, markasdarkas, RaichuArcanine, pokemaster13, Tina, jrmftw, Shy, Ruru_star, skilax1234, Pluski, ElectricBassClef, and Nakashima)!
