how many shinys do you people have?

[shinymudkip]

ive had my sapphire for almost 3 years now but ive never found a single shiny in my life WHY!!!!!!!!!!

[Magmar]

Because you're unlucky. Sorry.

[Number1ChanseyFan]

[color=magenta]Meh, just keep trying, I know it is frustrating, but one will turn up eventually!!

The shinies that I have are:

Gold: Gyarados, Spearow, Fearow.
Silver: Gyarados.
Crystal: Gyarados.
Ruby: Koffing, Zigzagoon. (Zigzagoon was from the GameStop promotion.)
Sapphire: Grimer, Linoone, Swablu, Zigzagoon (This Zigzagoon was also from the promo.)
Emerald: Smeargle.
FireRed: None.
LeafGreen: None.

[SilverMaster]

I've only ever seen 1 shiny, and it was in the first 10 minutes of playing. It was a gold ratatta.

Somewhere i read the chances of catching a shiny are 1 in 8000 odd, but somewhere else it said 1 36000. There's also no cheat (on gameshark atleast) for catching all shineys

[shinymudkip]

ok something insane happened the day after i wrote the last message. i was walking around and then on my emerald what would appear a SHINY LATIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i only had 1 premere ball so it fled but WOW!!!

[shinymudkip]

any one make sure you dont downloud what i put i diddnt know what would happen if i put it there and that happens. dont know what happens if you click it tho.

[Magmar]

The moderators generally frown upon double posting, except in special circumstances. Thee's a button titled "Modify" next to each post where you can add or delete information from your post. (Better off hearing it from me.)

I do have a Shiny Gyarados XD; and everyone knows about my Goldeen issue. I attract Shiny Goldeen. I wonder if odds are changed based upon your character's name. Mine's always "Barry" in exactly that way.

[MeLoVeGhOsTs]

I have a shiny Zubat and Geodude on my Silver, never really trained them though.

No shiny's for RSEFRLG.

[Lady Vulpix]

I've never found any shinies, except for the Gyarados.
Not that I've played for as long as other people have... I didn't really expect to find any.

And shinymudkip... what Magmar said is right, so please follow his advice.

[mr_pikachu]

I think we've had this topic a few times before in some of the game forums, but it's been awhile. Anyway, I've actually never even seen a Shiny other than the red Gyarados in GSC. That makes a total of eight games that I have played/am playing in which I've essentially been Shiny-less: Gold, Silver, Crystal, Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, FireRed, and LeafGreen.

Meh, that's life, I suppose. Come next generation, I'll be shooting for double digits in my list of games without random Shinies.

[SilverMaster]

Somewhere in the stadium 2 cheats/walkthrough it said if you change your pokemons Nickname it can make it shiny. I haven't tried it yet but it might work.

If you see a shiny 'roaming beast', that'll run away from you, is it shiny the next time you see it.

[PersianKing]

Nidoqueen
Gyarados

[Sceptile_Master]

No the nickname thing just made your pokemon look a different color in pokemon stadium 1. And the chances for a shiny is 1/8192 off the top of my head I think. But anyhoo I've got a shiny Tentacruel and a shiny Blastoise. Your probably just unlucky. You might get one someday though.

[soggy_cardboard]

ive had a few shiny pokemon on crystal (inc free daycare eggs)

But the ONLY other shiny i have got is a exeggcute in Fire red.

[Gnight]

I must be pretty lucky. I ran into a shiny tentnacool after about 70 hours of play in my sapphire. It's a tentnacruel now. I also have a shiny ditto and medopod(never trained it) back in my Gold. The only shiny that I've ran into and managed to get way was a dang oddish. Oh, I have a shiny gyaraydos, too. XD

[*Murkrow]

Let's see.....

Silver: Gyarados, three Raticate's (one caught as a Rattata), Butterfree, Persian (caught as Meowth), Meowth, saw a Girafarig (Donphan KO'd it)
Crystal: First file: Gyarados, Raticate, Sneasel, Farfetch'd (both from breeding Raticate)
Second file: Gyarados, Cleffa
Gold: Gyarados

Ruby: First file: Spinda, Latias (Southern Island, damned waste of time though I didn't think that way then)
Second file: Swellow (caught as Taillow), Illumise

My second Ruby file has been pretty lucky in that aspect; Taillow was caught five hours into the game, and Illumise was caught a week ago with about 50 hours on the clock. Though I only use Swellow- Illumise is just going to be used for trade fodder sometime or the other.

[rinku]

ok something insane happened the day after i wrote the last message. i was walking around and then on my emerald what would appear a SHINY LATIAS!!!!!!!!!!!!! but i only had 1 premere ball so it fled but WOW!!!

Congrats! Since its stats are fixed from when you first encounter it, you'll just have to track it down - it will still be shiny when you do. If you can trade one over, I'd reccommend a Murkrow with Mean Look to trap it (L40 wild Latias has no attacks that can affect Dark types). Sableye can do, but it would have to be a high level, fast one (+speed maxed out at about L60). Fortunately, high level Sableye can be caught wild.

My own list is:
Crobat (caught as Zubat), Wingull, Shuppet, Sableye, Linoone (berry-fix bonus Zigzagoon).
Failed to catch a shiny Makuhita when he used Whirlwind on me (now I never travel on Victory Road without something with Suction Cups!). Have seen shiny Kecleon and Starmie in Battle Tower.

[Austrian ViceMaster Alex]

The only two shinies I ever came across were given to be me in-game. Beside those I never stumbled over a single shiny Pokémon in game. But then, I wasn't really looking for any either, no walking around in the grass for hours for me.

[Zap_zapdos]

I have a few shinings:


Crystal:Gyarados;ledian---wow---it apeared in my birthday-----;spinarak and ariados(traded)weedle,kakuna &beedrill(traded) and cleffa(traded too)

sapphire:---all traded---wingull and a marill had a friend with a shiny

i had a friend with a shiny claydol, but he made new game, and in the new file he caught a shiny marill(i have it now) :biggrin:

[Mega Horny]

I'm a big shiny collecter

Gold: Gyarados, Electrode, Seaking, Rapidash
Silver: Gyarados, Ampharos, Steelix, Golduck, Tangela, !Entei!
Crystal: Gyarados, Tentacruel, Ursaring, Nidoking
Ruby: Muk, Linoone, Tropius, Snorlax
Sapphire: Machamp
Emerald: Masquerain, Nosepass, Aggron, Golem, Crobat
FireRef: None
LeafGreen: Tyranitar, Illumise, Arcanine

[Lady Vulpix]

How long did you have to play in order to find them?

[Mega Horny]

depends. it actually SEEMED to take longer in GSC. Luck with most of them, just training/catching in the right area at the right time. Other times it wasn't luck, like once I decided I wanted a turquoise Aggron, so I went to the Dewford cave and encountered shiny geodude zubat and nosepass first. I spent like 25 hours probably, just searching there. I know ur thinking, get a life, but it wasn't in one sitting and took a while.

[SilverMaster]

i red somewhere the odds of finding a shiny are more in your favour in advanced than the colour games. Please correct me if i'm wrong.

[Mega Horny]

I haven't heard that beofre but the percentage could possibly be up by a few, and I have noticed a change. :/

rite now I'm working in my ruby for a red eyed Glalie and on the way i'll probably find more colored zubat and perhaps a spheal!

[mr_pikachu]

Well, there are no shinies in RBY, so you have a 0% chance of encountering a shiny there.

In GSC, the odds are 1 out of 8194 in random encounters, I believe. But it's easier with breeding if you are using a shiny Pokemon; the odds supposedly increase to 1 in 64! (Source: GameFAQs Guide)

From what I've heard, the odds haven't changed between GSC and RSEFrLg. However, third generation shinies don't have boosted stats like those in GSC, so there's no longer any benefit to catching them for a battling team.

[Blademaster]

(Yes, I'm invading every aspect of this forum! Fanfiction, Games, General... all of them will soon be mine! MOOHOOHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! )

Anyway, dumb question from a dumb guy: Are there shinies of different colors?

I ask this because I caught a brown-orange Golbat in Pokemon Ruby, but I once saw a pink Golbat in a magazine.

...?

[Mega Horny]

well, i've know their shinyness color to vary slightly between games, like exeggutor appears a pale yellow in gsc and in the advanced games hes mor of a reddish gold, and the magazine, did not lie, for I have a pink Crobat. I believe there is only one shiny of pokemon in each game, but Golbat does change. The advanced versions have pink ones, while the older versions have a greenish one. I dont know about brown though.

And.... i caught the Glalie, he was the first shiny to apear! Well, snorunt but anyway. Now i'm off to find a colored whismur!

[rinku]

I believe there is only one shiny of pokemon in each game, but Golbat does change. The advanced versions have pink ones, while the older versions have a greenish one.

Zubat and Golbat are olive-greenish in the Advanced games, but the Crobat is pink (I was so disappointed!). This is basically in line with the fact that normal Zubat/Golbat are blue and normal Crobat are purple.

[Mega Horny]

ah, that makes sense. How can you not like Pink? Its my third favorite color! You make me sick

anyway, I have a Whismur to catch!

[rinku]

Oh, don't get me wrong... I quite like pink, but was just disappointed it was no longer green

[Mega Horny]

Oh, seeing as your the "Green Pokemon Master." Makes sense.

Whismur, for a pokemon with such a high appearance percentage is not coming up! XP

[Phoenixsong]

1 in 64 chance of breeding when using Shiny Pokemon? Dear God, I need to go beg my cousin to borrow his Shiny female Poochyena. I love Mightyena and I desperately need a beige one... arrrgh!

Anyway, I have some interesting Shiny Stories (and I don't count that stupid Gyarados):

Way, way old Silver file that I can't find on my Monster Brain anymore: A yellowish Meowth that I found about seven seconds after seeing Entei on that road between Ecruteak and Olivine, and then I screamed and scared the crap out of my brother. (now a yellowish Persian)

Some ancient Gold file that I am CERTAIN I deleted and am not THAT upset about: Golden Spearow, now a Golden Fearow that I ended up not liking so much. How I regret not liking it now.

Ruby: A horrid little green Oddish I found in the Safari Zone. Actually, I was playing with little light and wasn't paying attention. When I looked at it, I thought it'd come out of a Pokeball, but then reasoned that that was a highly stupid thing for someone in the Safari Zone to say. With the poor light and the fact that the shiny Oddish's green is almost indistinguishable from the normal bluish-black, I was doubtful, but I caught it anyway. Sure enough, when I checked the computer, she was Shiny. She's now an even uglier puke-green Vileplume currently rotting in my Colloseum, and she's also made me totally paranoid about future Safari Zone encounters. On the one hand, I'd like a shiny Kangaskhan or Scyther or Houndour or Heracross, but those are the things that run away and make me cry. On the other hand, junk like Oddish is much easier to catch, but I dislike most of the "easy-peasy to catch" Pokemon in the Safari Zone. Dang it.

My brother's Sapphire: I was helping him do something or other when I found a level 12 Tentacool with those green orbs and darker legs. I screamed, as usual, then asked him if he wanted it; I caught it for him, he had plans to use it, I had plans to steal it, and then his fairly new game stopped working completely and we had to exchange it. Again: Dang it!

My brother's LG: We were going to the dinner table when he walks up to me and says, "You know, it's weird. I just found a wild Marowak in Victory Road, but it kinda looked like it came out of a Pokeball." So I yell at him for letting it run away, he tells me he was most likely going to but hadn't yet because right as he found it was when we were called to eat. So I hold up dinner for about five minutes trying to catch the dang thing for him, get yelled at by my folks, and then beg him for it for three days before he finally trades it to me. My Sapphire now holds a chartreuse Marowak/False Swipe slave. Not dang it.

Emerald: Right outside the Safari Zone, I find another shiny Oddish. Why is it that you always find more than one of the Shiny Pokemon you don't like? I'm expecting to find a shiny Oddish in one or both of my Sapphires any day now. Anyway, I caught him and am now the disturbed owner of an electric purple male Bellossom. And while I think the color scheme is hideous and I just plain don't like the Oddish line as a whole, my ugly, effeminate friend Forrest the Electric Purple Bellossom has now become an interesting character in a fic I plan to write. Only sort of dang it. Another cousin also traded me a purple Sharpedo that his friend traded him... and quite soon, I hope to have a shiny Poochyena in my Emerald, too... mwahahaha!

Yeah, that's more or less it. Not counting that red Gyarados, I haven't seen as many shinies as other people, but I am at least glad that I haven't knocked any out or accidentally run away from any. Having said that, I'll probably find a shiny Absol tomorrow morning and OHKO it. I have bad karma that way. At least I'm not like my cousins and some of their friends, who have almost ALL reported seeing shiny Kecleons and not knowing they were special so either running or knocking them out.

Hmm... what else... there's a shiny Espeon in the FireRed/ LeafGreen Trainer Tower, too... I'm still paranoid every time I go into the Safari Zone, and I'm also paranoid that I'll find a shiny so early in the game that I won't have Pokeballs yet...

A few questions, though: How does breeding for shinies work? Does it have to be the mother that's shiny, the father, or does it matter? What if both parents are shiny, and/or they're both the same species? In other words, am I more likely to get (ANOTHER) shiny Oddish by breeding my Vileplume and Bellossom, or is that just as likely as breeding a random, non-shiny Ditto with my Sharpedo? Can I get a shiny Magikarp by breeding a female Gyarados with my purple Sharpedo?

Also, what are your chances of receiving a shiny, like getting a shiny Charmander from Oak or a shiny Eevee from Bill? Are they the same as for catching a shiny?

And shinymudkip, have you caught that Latias yet?

Shutting up now.

[Drago]

Never been a big shiny collector, if I spot 'em I nab 'em, I'm not one to go scrounging about the grass for hours on end. So through my ventures I've got... Silver: Gyarados (Reddy), Crystal: Gyarados (Ydder), Igglybuff from the daycare egg (Wiggywiggy), Sapphire: Sandslash caught as a Sandshrew (Santana).

[SupremeChampion]

[i]i have only been able to capture only shiney in my entire career of hunting for shinies, and that would be the traditional gyarados lol. other than that, i have been graced by no shinies.

~The Italian Stallion

[+conspiracy+]

well speaking of shinies I actually just caught a shiny tentacool this morning on my ruby

besides the shiny gyarados in GSC, thats the only shiny i've ever caught/encountered

no luck compared to some of you..

[Crazy Elf Boy]

Well guys i have a shiny sharpedo (Red) on emerald and my friend has a blue flygon on his ruby version. And i am trying to get a black Rayquaza.

[Phoenixsong]

Good luck with that Rayquaza... you're actualy more likely to get that than to find a random shiny in the wild, but you're going to have to start over A LOT. I restarted my new Sapphire about 500 times (not kidding, I lost count after 200 and went on for about twice as long after that) looking for a shiny Torchic... I ended up giving up and just repeatedly starting over for a female with the best stats I was willing to get.

However, after starting over my FireRed a week ago I caught a Caterpie, was on my way back through the forest to fight Gary and then a golden Caterpie jumps out at me. His stats are pretty bad but I love my buddy Monarch the pink/purple/green Butterfree... I don't care much for this color scheme, either, but whatever.

[Crazy Elf Boy]

Thanx Pheonixsong I will try to hard to get it because it looks so cool and the only other shiny pokemon i ever had (Besides the Red Gyarados hehehe) Is a red Donphan that i cought in MT Silver on my silver version. Well at least until my friend deleted my file

[Elec Man EXE]

I haven't gotten a single shiny after over 1000 combined hours in Ruby/Sapphire/FireRed/Emerald. I had 3-4 in Silver, but thats moot since I'll never be able to them it in future games.

I finally just 'sharked myself a Shiny Swalot (Blue!). But its not the same

[Heald]

I caught a shiny Poochyena in Emeraland that is now a Shiny Mightyena.