Shiny Fail Stories

[Memeshadow]

Rather curious to hear if anyone else has failed Shinies in ways that could have been prevented.

Here's a few of mine:

1. Minior: Random Encounter when looking for a Beldum to put in a Moon Ball. Went boom first turn.
2. Sigilyph: Wormhole Shiny, and I had no Poke Balls.
3. Altaria: Wormhole Shiny, Perish Songed.
4. Graveler: Horde Battle, couldn't save it and watched as other Gravelers Magnituded it to death.
5. Weedle: Looking for a Pikachu with Light Ball in Gen 6, had no Poke Balls.
6. Murkrow: Horde Battle with 2 Shiny Murkrows, had to faint one.
7. Shuppet: Same as Murkrow: 2 in 1 Horde.

What's your Shiny Fail stories? I'd love to hear them.

 

[Sceptile Leaf Blade]

I've got only one. I haven't encountered wild shinies outside of Red Gyarados in the Johto games, the Ultra Warpride, and this one. But I was SOS chaining Ditto for IVs and had a Pyukumuku only knowing Memento out on the field to speed up chaining when a shiny Ditto showed up. But it was Imposter so it immediately transformed and I obviously couldn't immediately throw a ball at it as there was another wild Ditto next to it, so it killed itself before I had a chance to do anything about it.

 

[Memeshadow]

I've got only one. I haven't encountered wild shinies outside of Red Gyarados in the Johto games, the Ultra Warpride, and this one. But I was SOS chaining Ditto for IVs and had a Pyukumuku only knowing Memento out on the field to speed up chaining when a shiny Ditto showed up. But it was Imposter so it immediately transformed and I obviously couldn't immediately throw a ball at it as there was another wild Ditto next to it, so it killed itself before I had a chance to do anything about it.

Ouch, that had to be painful to watch.

 

[PsychoKing47]

Only one I have is one of my few random Shiny encounters ever, back in Pokemon X: I found a Shiny Psyduck in a horde and got the horde down to just the shiny and a normal Psyduck. Unfortunately, when I went to kill the normal one, I ended up pressing the wrong thing and attacking the Shiny instead, killing it. I still haven't been able to reclaim that blue duck, but one day I'll get to it.

 

[Kutie Pie]

Mentioned it before, but I'll bring it up again. *ahem*

Be me, 10 years old.
It's morning. Had breakfast, waiting to go to school.
Been playing Pokémon Silver almost a year now.
At Mt. Silver training.
Random encounter is a Ponyta. Seen it---
*SPARKLE SHEEN*
Holy **** it's a Shiny!
Want it, bad!
Try to weaken it to catch.
"Wild Ponyta fled!"
Day ruined.

I still hold a grudge for that day. I also ran into a Shiny Onix in Diamond at Victory Road like five years back, and my Alakazam had to crit it with a Hidden Power Fire when it shouldn't have. I otherwise don't really have much luck with Shinies, so those are my fail stories.

 

[KyogreThunder]

The first shiny I encountered was a Pidgey, but since I didn't know about shinies back then, I ended up defeating it. I also encountered a shiny Parasect in Cerulean Cave, but destroyed it thanks to a critical hit from my Arcanine. I also remember battling against a shiny Sandshrew in Fallarbor Town's Battle Tent and shiny Feraligatr, Dewgong and Misdreavus in Battle Factory in Emerald.

 

[RedJirachi]

Thankfully the only time I have failed getting a shiny is in the Heart Gold Safari Zone. It was a Golduck

 

[Xionea]

I got 2.

First was a Graveler in Crystal (also my first non-Gyarados shiny encounter ever!). Now, most stories go that a shiny Graveler usually self-destructs, but not in this case. This was my first time turning on Crystals in forever, and the first Pokemon I ran into just so happened to be that shiny Graveler. I thought all Pokemon back in gen 2 did that little sparkle animation, and I thought nothing of it til after running from it. Then as each Graveler after it didn't sparkle, little ol' me wept on the inside.

Second was like 4 years ago. This was back in my shiny hunting days, lots of free time in high school and all that. I learned about horde hunting in Y so I was trying it out. Got a couple Swablu out it while trying to find a Spinda. Then I encountered a horde of Scyther (about a 10% encounter rate on that route if I remember correctly?), and surprise surprise, one was a shiny! That one was super exciting cause shiny Scizor is cool and I would have loved that. Around that time I also liked taking pictures of my shiny encounters, so I took a picture of the scyther.... then I hit run by accident. That was painful. Got so upset I even deleted the pic too cause it wasn't "authentic" anymore lol.

Definitely could be worse but those two stick with me now.

 

[Sutittaja]

My only shiny fail was in Ultra Sun when I was soft resetting for Buzzwole. I wasn't paying enough attention and soft reseted over it. I almost soft reseted over the second shiny Buzzwole too, because I didn't see the encounter animation and managed just see it when camera scrolled over it.

 

[Kung Fu Ferret]

Pokemon Platinum: shiny Starly encounter happened right before I got the Pokedex...

 

[Cyclone]

I physically lost 2 Pokemon games in my life: the first was Pokemon Heart Gold; i left it in my bag in a taxicab. Never got it back. It had a shiny Flygon (random encounter Vibrava in Safari Zone) in it. A year ago, someone stole my bag right out of my office, which had Pokemon Moon in it, which I had shiny hunted for hundreds of hours. I lost many Pokemon including shiny Araquanid, shiny Espeon, shiny Cleffa, shiny Rockruff, shiny Marowak Alolan and several others I had SOS battled for. That was quite painful to lose, but I bought Sun and got most of them back over the following year.

I once found a shiny Rhyhorn in the Safari Zone (i think FR or LG) but it fled.

OH -- and also it took me 45 Lugia raids to get 1 shiny Lugia recently in Pokemon Go. 45!! I've never met anyone who can beat that unlucky streak. lol

 

[Earth Wolf-Howl]

I think I've only lost three shinies- a male Nidoran, a Fearow, and an Eevee.

The Nidoran wasn't really preventable, as I ran into it in the FireRed Safari Zone. I tried throwing a ball at it, but it broke out and fled the first turn. A little disappointing, but really, no big deal to me. To be honest, I didn't even properly process it. I've been trying to reclaim it in Sun, though.

Again in FireRed was Fearow, and this one was absolutely preventable. While training outside of Victory Road, I encountered a shiny Fearow and tried to weaken it with the weakest attack I had- Quick Attack. It was a crit. That Fearow was gone. I later realised that I'd had my Master Ball all along, which only rubbed salt in those wounds. Thankfully, though, I reclaimed it a year or two ago while Nuzlocking SoulSilver. That Fearow, Osiris, actually ended up being one of the best members of my team.

The last? Kind of a stupid story. I hatched a shiny Eevee in Y, accidentally released the wrong Pokemon, and reset to get it back. I didn't save. I wasn't too concerned, but I'd really like to reclaim it sometime...

 

[LadyTriox]

Haha, I have one

I was in the process of either training regularly or EV training an Umbreon of mine on Pokemon White Version.

I found a wild Woobat, and he was a shiny.

I had my umbreon use Return to weaken it, i wanted to catch it, and i figured it wouldn't one hit KO....

BIG. MISTAKE.

The Woobat fainted xD

 

[Cometstarlight]

I was replaying Emerald version and challenging the Battle Pike. All of a sudden, a trainer throws out a Shiny Clamperl. No possibility of catching it. I just let out a long sigh. That's how it goes sometimes. Womp.

 

[KyogreThunder]

In my last Pearl playthrough, a Gentleman I faced in Battle Tower sent out a shiny Seaking. I still beat him, though.

 

[Drake Pokétrainer]

1. Shiny Tangela in Pokémon Gold, had no pokéballs
2. Shiny Graveler in Pokémon Pearl, used Explosion while I was weakening it
3. Not really a fail as it was on purpose, in Pokémon Y I was hunting in a Riolu/Throh/Mankey friend safari for both shiny Riolu and shiny Mankey. I got 5 shiny Throh before finding any of the others and was so sick of it I KO'd the 5th one. I got 2 shiny Riolu and a shiny Mankey after that though.

 

[LiepardTrainer]

Not sure if mine counts as a fail or not?!!
fainting a shiny (wild) to make one of mine shinies evolve

In Pokemon X, wanted to make my shiny Eevee evolve to a shiny Glaceon (can't remember the cave name where Ice Rock is located)
I just fainted the first wild Pokemon I saw (had run out of rare candies too), didn't care which one it was
I was also replying to a forum so I missed the shiny sparkles it makes

Fainted the Beartic that showed up - didn't realized it was shiny until it was making the fainting animation
lost the shiny Beartic, haven't encountered another ever since, (did get the shiny Glaceon)

 

[Tiffo]

In bw2 I was looking for a certain pokemon (can't remember which one now) and a shiny vulpix showed up, however I was so used to wild pokemon popping up that my fingers clicking run on autopilot most of the time. I ran from the vulpix and only realised it as it was fainting.

 

[Pikasaur]

The only Fail i can remember definitely could have been prevented.

Back in Emerald, I ran into a Random Shiny Poochyena on route 110. I ran away from it, because "I'll never use a Poochyena".

Regretted that decision about a week later.

 

[Orphalesion]

The only time I sShiny hunted was once when I was little and playing Sapphire. I thought I'd try and get a shiny Treecko, so I soft-ressetted for a while. I didn't get a shiny Treecko...but the Poochyena that attacks Birch, the one you can't catch, was a Shiny.
hahahaha I was pretty pissed.