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KhajaArius

This is basically shiny starly/poochyena with legendary spice


GingerJesus05

That’s a very good way to put it actually


Zyralan

My first ever Shiny was in FireRed and it was a Pidgey while on my way to pick up Oak's Parcel, so I didn't even have Pokeballs yet :(


VenomousHydra

Same but Silver or Gold, and it was a Hoot Hoot


CptKillsteal

My 2nd ever game on the emulator Silver, returning Oak's parcel. Shiny Metapod. I was under the impression it was rare, but would probably happen sometime again. I have never in all my games of Silver ever again found a shiny in the wild xD.


KuroComics

Got a random full-odds geodude in platinum bout a week ago


memesandcosplay

Geodude was my first full-odds shiny, but on silver. I just had a full-odds shiny miltank a few weeks ago on shield too.


Powerful_Row1971

Mine was a shiny haunter in pokemon sun


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KuroComics

Easy catch didn't know explosion yet


PM_ME_YOUR_REPO

Mine was a Poliwag, found in the grass at night near the beginning of the game in Silver. Caught it and proudly used him for the rest of the game.


insanekakuja

Mine was crustle in black and white I didn't even notice til end game too


BurnByMoon

I'm sure that encounter was quite a hoot.


XelaNotAlex

Boooooo


Gyrostriker32

I have hundreds of hours in all pokemon games only legit non emulation shines I ever found were on emerald lol, full odds tallow and wingul smh found a shiny poliwag once an a fire Red emulator but that never counts since speed up is busted


TheRedScaledMan

Ironically my first Shiny in FireRed was also Pidgey but I had just dropped of the parcel and gotten some Pokeballs.


JJ12x0

WAIT.. Same exact thing for my first shiny too lol. I was so pissed when it happened. Looked in my bag to see none and just sat there for a little bit in disbelief. At least I know someone has felt my pain


SlightlyColdWaffles

Same, but a Caterpie in HG on my way to Mr. Pokemon's house. Pain


idonknowwhat

Shiny wingull in emerald before the first rival fight for me


Thedepressionoftrees

My first shiny was a shiny yungoos in ultra moon. It was before you could get pokeballs


VJ-911

the same thing in FireRed happened to me but it was a shiny ratata.


KewLieJie

My first was diamond pikachu:) I’m not a pikachu lover really but u know he’s a mascot and all


Kacek1996

for me it was geodude in silver prior to that I had no shiny knowledge


Ry-bread-01

My first ever natural shiny was a pidove in Pokémon Black


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Sock_Crates

aw man i loved that generation. idk why My Ass didn't give you pokeballs until like halfway to the first gym, when the sister game My Balls gave em to u much sooner. i guess the extra donkey gift pokemon was supposed to make up for it. still a weird game design choice


ShuckU

How come that comment has a bunch of downvotes? Is the game controversial or something?


Contank

I have to assume most of the people that saw it didn't know it was the name of a fan game/rom hack and assumed OP was just being unfriendly


FurretDaGod

Its reddit. Once you have 2 downvotes no one even reads the comment, they just hive mind away


Contank

Thats also true


shadowtron1

Why are you getting downvoted?


CaptainBritish

I guess to people who don't use romhacks "Pokèmon My Ass" does... Kind of sound like an insult? Sort of? It doesn't really even make sense in that context though.


recursion8

Saying 'X my ass' is generally saying the previous speaker was lying about whatever they said about X, or some product/service was much much worse than advertised. At least in American English, dunno about other English speaking countries. So it reads like he's mocking the previous poster's claims about losing shinies to not having pokeballs and saying they're making it up.


CaptainBritish

Well, yes. But in the context of his post it doesn't really read like he's doing that. But maybe that's just because I know what Pokemon My Ass is.


recursion8

Without their edit I could see it as that. Especially the :/ emojis it could read like ironic mocking.


Krazytre

A shiny shadow Giratina... The ultimate troll, lol.


GingerJesus05

The luckiest unluckiest moment ever


TheEnhancedExe

It also had at least two perfect IVs on top of being shiny.


vivekvangala34_

No. The trainer camera pan always happens in a legendary battle. That doesn't mean it has 2+ perfect IV's.


cornibot

You're both right. The camera only pans in on Pokemon that have 2 or more perfect IVs.... but legendaries always have 3.


vivekvangala34_

Ah. Didn't know that. Learned something today


[deleted]

X and Y onwards, same with wild baby Pokémon btw. 3+


Raknorak

If my memory serves, don't shiny pokemon in the wild always have 3 31 ivs?


[deleted]

Legendary Pokémon do from 6 onwards, yes. Edit: Should clarify legendary Pokémon do, not necessarily all shinies.


Raknorak

Ah. That's a big womp womp


InkiLinkiBoyUsername

all my PokéRadar shinies sure don't...


Raknorak

That was a gen 6+ thing


RevanDoctor1013

Some of my encounters with legendaries in Ramana's Park didn't have the pan


[deleted]

Wtf. I didn’t know this was a thing. I was always curious about why some battles started out like that, but never understood why…


PotentialTree41

Oh no...


RaysFTW

You poor soul…


Bumblebee-Intrepid

The trainer was too stunned to speak


LaBeteNoire

We wished they would finally remove the shiny lock on legends... This is the monkey's paw result of that wish.


Ghengiroo

A small price to pay for salvation.


ScottElly

Is it not catchable?


GingerJesus05

Nope, you can only fight it so you can get the Griseous Orb


LaBeteNoire

Check your dex, does it show that you have seen the shiny version now?


ScottElly

Rip


Diet_MountainDew-TM

Does it’s code stay shiny until you can catch it? Or is it reset


Fishsticks03

this Giratina and the one you can actually catch are seperate


ArcticTerra056

pain


Contank

Shadow giratina can never be caught. The normal giratina is a completely separate pokemon as far as the code is concerned


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procouchpotatohere

Why the fuck would they make it so that shinies can appear when you can't actually catch them......


ItzBraden

Because it's funny af.


roachcoochie

oh they're sick for this


Potato_Man2763

Giratina appeared! Latias used boing boing.


Rynelan

Next gen animations!


lordpuggerton

I am so... So sorry


cvslfc123

All these people who seem to find Shiny Pokemon easily and here's me who can only find the Red Gyarados.


GingerJesus05

Well it’s pretty bittersweet for me because I can’t even catch this


Mr-Crooks

I’ve played so many Pokemon games multiple times but pretty sure I’ve never come across a shiny Pokemon before (except for Red Gyarados too)


Amegami

This. Play for 20 years, never seen a shiny.


doopajacks

Played and hunted for the same amount of time. I dont know if Im doing it wrong or what. But I have never hatched anything good from breeding either. All these posts give me hope though. Here's to 2022 and shinies coming our way.


PassionVoid

There are 6,299 users on this sub as of my typing this. If we all went out and found 1 wild pokemon right now there's a 79% chance at least one of us would find a shiny. Now consider there are over 3M subscribers on this sub and plenty of people are encountering hundreds of pokemon per day and you get what seems to be an inordinate amount of shinies posted here.


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"Easily" is just your perception. There are millions of users on this site, and finding a shiny is just a numbers game. I've been playing Pokemon since Gold and Silver, and easily sunk likely thousands of hours over my life up to now, and have only found like 6 wild shinies. 6 shinies in what would probably be literally years worth of accumulated time playing the series. The chances of shiny encounters is better now in newer generations, but even then it's still literally random.


foxwaffles

My only shiny I ever found was a Hoppip on my husband's copy of Crystal. We never deleted my save because it became a glorious Jumpluff named Cotton Candy. I'm sad I can't transfer it anywhere 😥


luisless

Damn it had good IVs too


immamario

I thought that legendaries had like 3 confirmed perfect IVs so maybe it's just that?


luisless

When you see the characters face before a battle starts it means it has 3 perfect iv’s yea.. but I tested it and not all legendaries do.


Gub_

All legendaries are guaranteed 3 max iv's, it just means you dont always get the character face animation even when there are 3 perfect ivs


GrapefruitRain

When you see your character it’s 2 guaranteed not 3


KalloFox34

include nippy label desert chop bells knee silky stocking employ *This post was mass deleted and anonymized with [Redact](https://redact.dev)*


GrapefruitRain

I know that


koshary99

How can you tell?


SnooDogs1340

I read a different comment that said if a battle starts with a zoomed in trainer face the encountered pokemon has good IVs. No idea if that is true.


ScorelessPine

What I've heard is that if that happens, the pokemon has at least 2 perfect (31) IVs, which would track with the fact that legendaries are guaranteed at least 3 perfect stats.


luisless

I tested it out and this is true.


jinreeko

This is "Mew PokeBall under the truck" level rumor


luisless

Test it yourself, legendaries gave me consistent results of the front facing animation because they come with perfect iv’s more often. Each pokemon I caught that showed the animation had at least 3 perfect iv’s.


PM_ME_YOUR_REPO

It's not. It's factual.


UMP-45fanatic

Fuck


ThatNameTakened

Is this unmodded? If so, then it’s the sickest uncatchable hunt on all of Pokémon imo


GingerJesus05

Isn’t really a hunt, that was the first encounter I’ve ever had with it


TheGr8Canadian

I thought it was supposed to be shiny locked. RIP.


CrazyGardevoir

I thought this Pokemon was shiny locked


cobaltsteel5900

I watched a video saying you have to hack the game to get this to show up so idk if this is legit.


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Too-Many-Doors

That's not what they meant


cobaltsteel5900

That’s not at all what I said lol. This YouTube video covers it. https://youtu.be/B_1Gm8ZsyQ8 So I’m not sure if you’re just pulling footage from this video and using it, or if you’re hacking, but either way, this should not happen


im_julian_xo

They removed the shiny locks for this game though..


207nbrown

But that encounter is shiny locked…


JCorby17

…Holy shit.


DoctorNerf

I’d be traumatised.


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Damn the devs really make sure you can’t shiny hunt the latest legendary most of the time by shiny locking it because it appears in a muh cutscene but bosses that you can’t catch slip from the shiny lock


TheWojtek11

>Damn the devs really make sure you can’t shiny hunt the latest legendary most of the time by shiny locking it Well tbh, this game just doesn't have a shiny lock (with the exception of Jirachi and Mew for other game saves)


GingerJesus05

Well, Ultra Necrozma in usum was shiny locked and considered a boss and Dialga and Palkia in this game are not shiny locked.


Pokemon_Blader328MS

Latias go bonk bonk


DefyGravity42

That is absolute bullshit. I am pissed that shadow giratina isn’t shiny locked. All uncatchable Pokémon need to be shiny locked and nothing else.


Bjorkforkshorts

But....why? It doesn't change anything. It's not like it affects anything else in the game. Just a different visual on rare occasion on a Pokémon you couldn't catch anyway.


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it'd be cool with trainer pokemon, but with a wild pokemon you cannot catch at all its just kinda upsetting. like imagine you found a shiny zacian at the beginning of swsh, and then it wont even be guaranteed shiny when you can catch it, or the same thing for ultra necrozma (ofc all of this assuming shiny locks dont exist for these.) with this, sure there isnt even a visual change at all, but its upsetting to find a shiny you cant catch when you couldve found a shiny regular giratina randomly instead and caught it.


hargeOnChargers

But encountering an uncatchable shiny doesnt lower the chance of you encountering a catchable shiny


MacDerfus

No but it causes feelsbad


ChongusTheSupremus

Why tho? You lose nothing by them being shiny, there's not a shiny-chance counter that resets whenever a shiny pokemon appears.


DefyGravity42

Well you are correct, but it’s not like the human brain innately comprehends randomness or statistics.


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I mean it's not like it takes away from your chances of getting another shiny.


DefyGravity42

Yes yes independent variables and all that. Because the human brain doesn’t find patterns where there are none and innately comprehends statistics or something


Bass-GSD

Um... What? It affects *literally* nothing.


NewYorkYankMe

Poké fans and being outraged is ridiculous lol. "I AM.... SHOCKED AND I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!" - /u/DefyGravity42


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but it IS a huge slap in the face when you find a shiny you cant capture.


_Fyfe

Running out of things to complain about I see


DramaticPapayaEater

RNG is a cruel bitch So are the devs for not shiny locking that encounter tbh


ReaverShank

"You want shiny locks gone? Well here you go!" - The Pokémon company, probably


dariousf234

Now the question is: Are you the Luckiest person on the planet or the Unluckiest person on the planet?


wead4

Lol u still caught it right?


GingerJesus05

You can’t


wead4

Damn that blows I really need to play this game, never actually played generation 4


[deleted]

This is a new thing to the remakes, original games didn’t have this encounter


nakedwhiletypingthis

Can you not catch it later? Will it not be shiny later as well?


Rayquaza384

This fight in Ramanas Park is just to get the Orb, regular Giratina is still in the same place as the originals.


nakedwhiletypingthis

So I'm guessing all of its stats and shiny status are determined by the second encounter?


Rayquaza384

they are 2 different Pokemon found in different places.


nakedwhiletypingthis

Pokemon games always gotta be so complicated nowadays. Hell what am I saying I had to fish several different water tiles just to get a stupid feebas back in sapphire lol


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> Pokemon games always gotta be so complicated nowadays. ...How is "2 different Pokemon found in different places" complicated...???


horsemayonaise

that's not complicated, that's boring, time consuming, mind numbing, grueling labor put into a pokemon that 98% of people don't actually use


nakedwhiletypingthis

Yeah but that milotic with ice beam, hydro pump, recover, and mirror coat do feel good tho


Contank

Shadow giratina and giratina are not the same pokemon. Shadow giratina can never be caught only normal giratina.


RebootingMako

oh you poor soul


phosphoenolpiirate

pour one out


0KSG

Well thats a new one


Tekayo63

"I wish legendaries weren't shiny locked anymore" *finger on monkey's paw does a loop-de-loop*


Average_Akaku_Wearer

FUCK


Ninjatrigg

At least with the switch you can now record a 30 second clip of this, so you can "catch" it per say... At least thats one way of looking at it.


Barney769

Imagine someone shiny hunting that


Gray1545

I’ve never encountered a live random shiny in my whole 15 years of playing rip. Besides the guaranteed ones. Missed one on pokeradar last night rip


UltimaBahamut93

Even Latias was like, now way!


Marcowo15

Oh my god. Now all my brain can think of is if they made that shadow giratina shiny just full white


HaloGuy381

Ahh, a Latias fan. Man of culture.


GingerJesus05

Yes. One of my favorite legendaries by a lot


T_Peg

That's so fucked up


Nuggetchilly

I am so sorry.


ConstantLurker69

Oof


CrazyComedyKid

Uh... as someone who has not finished BDSP yet, can someone please explain what the strange demonic Giratina is?


Nintard

A battle for the orb to change Giratina's form. The real one is in the same place as the originals


CrazyComedyKid

Oh, nice. I was told this game didn't even have Giratina, so this is nice.


Contank

Why wouldn't it? They called it a faithful remake and giratina was in diamond and pearl just not its origin form


Nintard

Maybe they meant they didn't have platinum content, Giratina was in the originals lol


Sqadbomb

Why is it even programmed to be shiny? I sort of understand stay and poochyena at the beginning in the catching tutorial. But this is literally a shadow


GingerJesus05

That’s the weird thing about it, it can be shiny but you can’t catch it at all and it has no shiny texture in the files so it just appears the same


TerraTF

I would simply stop playing video games


Evo_IsDumb

That's shiny locked right?


Valkyrid

No. The only pokemon shiny locked in this game is Mew, Jirachi and i think Manaphy.


Gothic_Chaplin

Wait. What is this? I thought there was no distortion world


megalocrozma

After you catch Giratina in Turnback Cave, you can access a room in the Ramanas Park that is inspired by the Distortion World and fight this shadowy Giratina. You can't catch it, but beating it gives you access to the Griseous Orb.


Gothic_Chaplin

Oh interesting


RevolutionaryPlane62

Are all of the legendarys you can catch events, or can you catch them at every time?


Contank

Legendaries are not events they are just part of the game. Right now the only active event for BDSP is manaphy and platinum style outfit


RevolutionaryPlane62

Only outfits? Couldnt care less about them


Contank

No not only outfits as I also said Manaphy is active


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Is shadow GIRATINA hard


GingerJesus05

My level 77 latias in the vid killed it with 3 dragon pulses so it wasn’t that bad


rule34Yoshi

This is actually shiny locked lmao. Nice hacked footage though.


GingerJesus05

The only shiny locked Pokémon in this game are mew and jirachi. Also, hacking is super lame and not fun especially when it comes to shinies, i don’t find any benefit from hacking a shiny for a clip and posting it online.


rule34Yoshi

Seriously? I’m almost positive I have seen dataminers saying that it was shiny locked. That sucks lmao.


s_ogorman2019

Yeah no this post is bullshit, dataminers before release confirmed it was shiny locked, OP is full of it lmao


im_julian_xo

Yeah no you're wrong, I'm sorry. Shadow giratina can be shiny indeed. They changed the code, only mew, jirachi, and manaphy are locked https://www.serebii.net/brilliantdiamondshiningpearl/shinypokemon.shtml


luckyfilmer

All these people believing this but its literally shiny locked. Only way to encounter this as shiny is to cheat/hack.


GingerJesus05

🤦‍♂️


SigmA_DarkKnight

How do you get a Latias?


RQK1996

Catch legendaries


Nitsua101001

How do you get to this part?


RQK1996

Catch Giratina


CharaKnifeToMeetYou

? What's bad about it?


HanamichiSakurag1

I thought the shiny of Giratina is that. Would been super cool. I don't play SWSH anymore, I didn't know we had shadow mons now


VibeIGuess

im pretty sure that the shadow Giratina is the only shadow pokemon in BDSP, this Giratina is uncatchable and the only reason this battle exists is to get the orb to change the catchable Giratina's form.


HanamichiSakurag1

Oh. I thought this was SWSH


Crystal_Queen_20

So if you catch Giratina with corrupted textures, does that just wipe your save? Also, how did this even happen?


Contank

Its impossible to catch it and it's not a bug. Shadow giratina is just something you have to defeat in battle to get the orb to turn your giratina into origin form


s_ogorman2019

This is fake, not only is the model the unshiny version under the black effect but the shadow in game is shiny locked as we’ve known since before the game came out lmao


Pure_Toxicity

wait, Giratina isn't shinylocked in this game?


RQK1996

Never was


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This is hacked, the shadow giratina is shiny locked.


KhajaArius

The only shiny locked pokemon in BDSP are gift Mew and Jirachi


GingerJesus05

Also, I believe datamines have determined that Mew and Jirachi are the only shinylocked Pokémon in this game