Congrats to no one. I’m the first person to report finding a shiny since my last post!
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So yeah. Shiny. Which shiny, you ask? Which shiny on my Black 2 in Clay Tunnel after
36,071 REs of Repel Tricking (6,986 Max Repels bought and used) and Magnet Pulling for Lairon? Not Lairon!
Shiny Nosepass!
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Yup. That ugly thing that evolves into an even uglier thing. Why are these pokemon again? Anyways, Lairon was the only Steel type available since I was repel tricking out Durant, which means I had a 50% chance to find it factoring that in alone. Then its normal (but magnet-pull-reduced) rate brings it to about 57.5%. Then repel tricking out other pokemon (roughly 30-40% of pokemon repelled) brings it to…Idk, somewhere around 75%? More?
After telling myself that by doing all these REs, I’d at least only need one more Lairon by the end of it and now, 36k REs later…I still need 2 damn more. I’m not sure what to do now. Part of me wants to just keep going after these two Lairon, but part of me is scared I’ll be doing another 30k REs. If I only had one more Lairon left, I’d probably just want to get that last one to complete the line, but since I’m not any further towards that goal, I feel like I may as well take a break from it and hunt elsewhere.
As far as the Nosepass goes…Male, Brave nature, Magnet Pull ability. I’ll find out the IVs later when I upload the save file to my comp. I’m still glad I got something, and glad it’s a new shiny, but with how likely Lairon was and how many REs I did…It’s just a let down -_-
Like I said, not sure what I’ll hunt next. Could be Lairon, could be Vulpix, could be Absol/Altaria, could be Eevee, could be Venipede, and a few other things I have in mind. I suppose I’ll get my groceries, dog walking, and exercise out of the way now and hopefully have a decision by the time I resume hunting.
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I suppose I'll just edit since only 2 posts have been made, and I don't wanna post a 3rd so close together >.< So sorry for the long post :x
Ok, well December is certainly starting out strong for me! After
7,077 REs, my HeartGold brings me a
shiny Raticate!
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I saw it appearing but thought I might just be a little crazy seeing as it would be my second shiny today. This actually was something I wanted to get at some point, and it now completes the Rattata line for me. Female, Bold nature, Run Away ability, and has the following IVs: 27 – 12 – 12 – 26 – 24 – 26. I trained my Rattata to Lv. 100, but I might just leave this one as it is…It’ll be a little difficult to get to Lv. 100 with its moves (plus a low attack IV and –Atk. nature), but maybe I’ll change my mind. Its characteristic is Often scatters things, which is the same as Nosepass’, coincidentally. This is also the first 2-in-1-day I’ve gotten that didn’t occur on the same game. Also the first time I’ve found any shinies on the first of a month.
I think I’ll repel trick at night now, since that’ll take out the 25% Raticate (and the 5% Electabuzz) leaving me with just Quagsire and Voltorb. During the day I’ll just encounter normally and hope I don’t get a 20% Raticate (or Fearow…Or Electabuzz).
Funny though…30 days of November and I get 1 shiny. 1 day into December and I get 2. Keep it up, games >_>
Good luck, everyone (especially
Razorbadger, Keane, CrimsonPenguin, markasdarkas, RaichuArcanine, pokemaster13, Tina, jrmftw, Shy, Ruru_star, skilax1234, ChaoticInverse, Pluski, ElectricBassClef, and Nakashima)!