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WHAT IS THIS MADNESS????
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hahahahahahahaha...yes!!!! I'VE DONE IT!
On this fateful day, September 5th, 2010....I've completed perhaps the most important hunt of my shiny hunting career...
SHINY ENTEI ON MY SOULSILVER VERSION!!!!
Okay, okay, so I owe everyone an explanation. Because I'll be running a 10k with my mother tomorrow morning, this morning she and I decided to go running on a trail. After walking/running for 5.5 miles, we came back home to get ready for church. Now, I really don't like running all that much, and I had to wake up super early, so I'm already pretty peeved at this point. I decided that I might as well get my SR total for Entei/Raikou from 386 (where I left off last night) to 390 for the day; then I would focus on SRing for Lugia.
So, I powered up my computer, started watching a video about someone RNGing for a shiny Lugia, and began SRing for Entei and Raikou mindlessly. I usually run into Raikou first, and today it wasn't any different: Normal Raikou? Run away and search for Entei. Normal Entei? Soft reset. You know, the usual.
So it looked a little something like this: Normal Raikou, run away, go between routes 36 and 37... normal Entei, soft reset...normal Raikou, run away, alternate between routes 36 and 37, normal Entei, soft reset...normal Raikou, run away...crap, Entei is all the way on Route 32. Ah well, this is the 389th SR, so I'll just take a detour through the Ruins of Alph to get this over with.
And so that's exactly what I do. I get on to Route 36, go through the passage way that leads to the Ruins of Alph, and emerge on the Route 32 side of it, and apply a Super Repel.
I enter the grass.
I notice the light brown fur, the blue-gray star-thingy on Entei's face.
My heart skips a beat. All sensation in my hands and feet are lost. Am I dreaming? Hallucinating?
Well, no, I can't be. Because a flurry a stars just went around that oddly colored shiny Entei...and this time, it was on MY blue DS!
That's right people...after a measly 389 soft resets or 778 Pokemon seen in total...
Shiny Entei....on my SoulSilver version.
There's so much more that I want to type, but I simply can't do it at the moment because I have to get ready for church...but all I can say is thanks to everyone who wished me luck (even if you just said "Good luck everyone", I know it reached me), and you all can DEFINITELY expect a video of it's capture! Now that I know the Entei is shiny, I plan on playing through the rest of the game until I have eight badges so that I may trade over my fleeing shiny catching squad and hopefully catch Entei in a nicely matching ball.
And I just wanted to say something else that's important to me. I began SRing for Entei and Raikou back in like...July I think. And the whole time, my brother kept saying things like "Why are you soft resetting for them? You'll never get them. You're wasting your time." When I first started hunting, I simply ignored him, but after a few weeks, his words infected my will to hunt. I began to think he was right, and I truly believed that I would never obtain a shiny Entei. But something inside me told me to stick with it...and I was rewarded for my determination. Sure, 389 soft resets isn't a lot; heck, it's practically nothing. However, the fact that I continued to reset despite my self-doubt and my brother's hopeless attitude is something that I just noticed, and honestly, the words "Never give up" have never meant more to me than they do now. I'm just so supremely overjoyed at the moment, I can't even put it into words...other than Piplup, this is perhaps that the most difficult hunt I'll ever do, and I really can't be more content than I am right now.
So yeah, good luck to everyone, and sorry for making such a long post. ^_^
