Congrats to umbreonfan3636 on Lickitung, Mykle on Froakie and Phantump, and everyone else on your shinies!
Thanks for the congrats, umbreonfan3636
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Video of my shiny Cyndaquil is up!
I got all set up last night for my starter SRing in the morning (as I did Monday night as well), but I should have known better than to be so bold as to assume I wouldn’t get called to work for dear old manager’s son! So I was woken up (luckily I’d just barely gotten 7 hours of sleep, so it could have been worse). He’s, uh…“Sick”. Surely not a lie or anything (seems to be sick a lot though!). Anyways, that scrapped those plans (along with my plans for Xmas shopping at a reasonable time), but at least I found Cyndaquil on Tuesday…
YES! I was still able to get some luck tonight
After
17,483 REs on Platinum, I found a third
shiny Gastly!
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The capture was actually a little scary! I luckily remembered I had to switch in Bibarel to use Taunt almost as soon as it showed up, but the first move Gastly used was Curse! I wasn’t entirely sure what Curse did in terms of my own pokemon (I now know it’s ¼ HP per turn), so I was scared my Bibarel would faint when Taunt ends and the Gastly would use a second Curse D: Luckily everything worked out okay, and now I have the final Gastly I need!
This one is male (my other two are female), Rash nature, and has the IVs: 24 – 15 – 3 – 20 – 20 - 31. Turns out this one is as good or better than my second one (which I hastily evolved into Gengar) in nearly everything but Def. :x Oh well! I still have 2 Buneary to find, and at this rate it seems likely I could find even more Gastly (not to mention if I hunt at other locations with Gastly/Haunter in the future), so if I really want to, I can probably train/evolve it at some point in the future…For now, it’ll only become a Haunter and complete the Gastly line
As happy as I am with this, and as nice as it is to complete another (3-stage!) evolution line, it would have been nice to get Buneary :\ Now I have to hope to get two Buneary and no more Gastly, despite the fact that all I’ve found so far is Gastly…After some deliberation, I decided that I’ll stay and keep going for Buneary as opposed to taking a break from it and working on my Route 209 Day/Route 203 Night hunt. I think I’ll switch which section of forest I’m hunting in to at least give myself a little bit of change, as I’ve done 23k REs now at this spot.
Also, for the first time in months, I have all 3 games under odds atm, and that feels pretty nice
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Good luck, everyone (especially
CrimsonPenguin, umbreonfan3636, markasdarkas, RaichuArcanine, pokemaster13, Tina, jrmftw, Shy, Ruru_star, skilax1234, ChaoticInverse, Pluski, ElectricBassClef, and Nakashima)!