Congrats to Cyberra on Raikou, PhazonRain429 on Dialga and Heatran, SkyMew on Riolu and Trapinch, Laurelai on Hawlucha, Volcarocka on Starly, Lunafloon on Woobat, Phillies on Totodile and Hoothoot, Echo Nacyl on Chansey and Phione, jean010 on Aerodactyl and both Paras, TheMaster327 on Spiritomb and Hippopotas, Zenn of Ascension on Hypno, NitroLightningFlash on both Trapinch, Veens on Vulpix, maldoror on Rotom and Cottonee and Duskull, Mrs. Oreo on Azelf, tonyg44x on the multiple Squirtle and Regigigas, Lexya428 on Marill, Crimson Penguin on Vulpix (and the degree!), Aidan25 on Banette, Doomdour on Deino, Erron Black on Latios, Pokeaidan on Ralts, and everyone else on your shinies!
Thank you for the congrats, Crimson Penguin ^ ^
-----------
Haven’t hunted much lately again u.u I’ve just had no time with trying to hang out with people + work + just trying to get some other things done.
EEK. OMG. My first and only shiny fail was back in July 2013 when I was doing my first ever Badge Quest on Platinum. I wanted to keep my BQ game completely “pure” – as in I only had/used my BQ pokemon and didn’t trade any pokemon over. I’d hunted in Route 203 a lot since I wanted a Bidoof, Starly, and Shinx, but didn’t really expect to get an Abra since it was only 15% (it seemed even rarer since I only had 5 shinies in my whole collection when I started hunting this route). After getting a Starly and Bidoof, I just needed a Shinx, but an Abra appeared instead.
As I said, I didn’t trade over any pokemon with Shadow Tag or anything as I felt it would “taint” my BQ the way I wanted to play it (in retrospect, I should have just traded a Wobbuffet and not count anything towards the BQ if I used it). I’d looked over my 3 BQ member’s learnsets prior to finding this (Empoleon, Starpator, and Bibarel), but didn’t see a way to make anything work (I saw Bibarel had Yawn, but Abra would teleport before it would take effect). It wasn’t until about a month after that Abra that I was looking over the learnsets yet again and finally noticed Bibarel could learn Taunt. Though it was too late, as Abra had broken out of the Pokeball I’d thrown.
I wasn’t too torn at the time, as I didn’t care much about shiny Abra, though of course I wish I’d caught it. But as time went on I wanted it more and more >.< So now I’ve spent time here hoping that the 15% chance would show itself again (along with Starly and Shinx), as opposed to hunting on routes that better suit Starly/Shinx. And now it’s finally paid off, as after
2,841 REs, I finally found another
shiny Abra!
[IMG200]http://i.imgur.com/aOuB0BF.jpg[/IMG200]
I was watching the 2nd ep of S4 of OITNB when it appeared. I looked down and saw it appearing and could easily tell it was shiny. I had to just keep staring at it while it was going across the screen to make sure I wasn’t just hallucinating. But sure enough it sparkled! I carefully made sure I knew what I was supposed to do (leading with my shiny Bibarel which still has Taunt and Yawn learned), then used Taunt and then Yawn. It broke out of the first Pokeball, but then fell asleep while at half-health from struggling, at which point it has 100% chance of capture. It’s so great to finally have this shiny that I should have had 3 years ago had I not been an idiot. I hope I’m lucky enough to find 2 more to complete the line ^ ^
This one is male (as was my failed one), Bashful, has Inner Focus, and has the following IVs: 23 – 3 – 17 – 0 – 29 – 26. What a wonderful way to get back to hunting! I haven’t had a chance to hunt since the 13th, then on the 41st RE of the night I get this shiny I was hoping so badly for! And while I knew I could get it on HG/SS (not even through the game corner necessarily) I really wanted to get it from the same game and route that I lost the first one.
Good luck, everyone (especially
Cyberra, Crimson Penguin, CharlieDoryRose, umbreonfan3636, SheroGH, G-Money, Martinzqx, tui, ChaoticInverse, markasdarkas, RaichuArcanine, pokemaster13, Tina, Shy, Ruru_star, skilax1234, Pluski, ElectricBassClef, and Nakashima)!