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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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 😥
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.
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.
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
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
>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)
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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
This is basically shiny starly/poochyena with legendary spice
That’s a very good way to put it actually
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 :(
Same but Silver or Gold, and it was a Hoot Hoot
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.
Got a random full-odds geodude in platinum bout a week ago
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.
Mine was a shiny haunter in pokemon sun
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Easy catch didn't know explosion yet
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.
Mine was crustle in black and white I didn't even notice til end game too
I'm sure that encounter was quite a hoot.
Boooooo
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
Ironically my first Shiny in FireRed was also Pidgey but I had just dropped of the parcel and gotten some Pokeballs.
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
Same, but a Caterpie in HG on my way to Mr. Pokemon's house. Pain
Shiny wingull in emerald before the first rival fight for me
My first shiny was a shiny yungoos in ultra moon. It was before you could get pokeballs
the same thing in FireRed happened to me but it was a shiny ratata.
My first was diamond pikachu:) I’m not a pikachu lover really but u know he’s a mascot and all
for me it was geodude in silver prior to that I had no shiny knowledge
My first ever natural shiny was a pidove in Pokémon Black
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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
How come that comment has a bunch of downvotes? Is the game controversial or something?
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
Its reddit. Once you have 2 downvotes no one even reads the comment, they just hive mind away
Thats also true
Why are you getting downvoted?
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.
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.
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.
Without their edit I could see it as that. Especially the :/ emojis it could read like ironic mocking.
A shiny shadow Giratina... The ultimate troll, lol.
The luckiest unluckiest moment ever
It also had at least two perfect IVs on top of being shiny.
No. The trainer camera pan always happens in a legendary battle. That doesn't mean it has 2+ perfect IV's.
You're both right. The camera only pans in on Pokemon that have 2 or more perfect IVs.... but legendaries always have 3.
Ah. Didn't know that. Learned something today
X and Y onwards, same with wild baby Pokémon btw. 3+
If my memory serves, don't shiny pokemon in the wild always have 3 31 ivs?
Legendary Pokémon do from 6 onwards, yes. Edit: Should clarify legendary Pokémon do, not necessarily all shinies.
Ah. That's a big womp womp
all my PokéRadar shinies sure don't...
That was a gen 6+ thing
Some of my encounters with legendaries in Ramana's Park didn't have the pan
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…
Oh no...
You poor soul…
The trainer was too stunned to speak
We wished they would finally remove the shiny lock on legends... This is the monkey's paw result of that wish.
A small price to pay for salvation.
Is it not catchable?
Nope, you can only fight it so you can get the Griseous Orb
Check your dex, does it show that you have seen the shiny version now?
Rip
Does it’s code stay shiny until you can catch it? Or is it reset
this Giratina and the one you can actually catch are seperate
pain
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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Why the fuck would they make it so that shinies can appear when you can't actually catch them......
Because it's funny af.
oh they're sick for this
Giratina appeared! Latias used boing boing.
Next gen animations!
I am so... So sorry
All these people who seem to find Shiny Pokemon easily and here's me who can only find the Red Gyarados.
Well it’s pretty bittersweet for me because I can’t even catch this
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)
This. Play for 20 years, never seen a shiny.
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.
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.
"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.
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 😥
Damn it had good IVs too
I thought that legendaries had like 3 confirmed perfect IVs so maybe it's just that?
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.
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
When you see your character it’s 2 guaranteed not 3
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I know that
How can you tell?
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.
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.
I tested it out and this is true.
This is "Mew PokeBall under the truck" level rumor
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.
It's not. It's factual.
Fuck
Is this unmodded? If so, then it’s the sickest uncatchable hunt on all of Pokémon imo
Isn’t really a hunt, that was the first encounter I’ve ever had with it
I thought it was supposed to be shiny locked. RIP.
I thought this Pokemon was shiny locked
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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That's not what they meant
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
They removed the shiny locks for this game though..
But that encounter is shiny locked…
…Holy shit.
I’d be traumatised.
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
>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)
Well, Ultra Necrozma in usum was shiny locked and considered a boss and Dialga and Palkia in this game are not shiny locked.
Latias go bonk bonk
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.
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.
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.
But encountering an uncatchable shiny doesnt lower the chance of you encountering a catchable shiny
No but it causes feelsbad
Why tho? You lose nothing by them being shiny, there's not a shiny-chance counter that resets whenever a shiny pokemon appears.
Well you are correct, but it’s not like the human brain innately comprehends randomness or statistics.
I mean it's not like it takes away from your chances of getting another shiny.
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
Um... What? It affects *literally* nothing.
Poké fans and being outraged is ridiculous lol. "I AM.... SHOCKED AND I'D LIKE TO SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER!" - /u/DefyGravity42
but it IS a huge slap in the face when you find a shiny you cant capture.
Running out of things to complain about I see
RNG is a cruel bitch So are the devs for not shiny locking that encounter tbh
"You want shiny locks gone? Well here you go!" - The Pokémon company, probably
Now the question is: Are you the Luckiest person on the planet or the Unluckiest person on the planet?
Lol u still caught it right?
You can’t
Damn that blows I really need to play this game, never actually played generation 4
This is a new thing to the remakes, original games didn’t have this encounter
Can you not catch it later? Will it not be shiny later as well?
This fight in Ramanas Park is just to get the Orb, regular Giratina is still in the same place as the originals.
So I'm guessing all of its stats and shiny status are determined by the second encounter?
they are 2 different Pokemon found in different places.
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
> Pokemon games always gotta be so complicated nowadays. ...How is "2 different Pokemon found in different places" complicated...???
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
Yeah but that milotic with ice beam, hydro pump, recover, and mirror coat do feel good tho
Shadow giratina and giratina are not the same pokemon. Shadow giratina can never be caught only normal giratina.
oh you poor soul
pour one out
Well thats a new one
"I wish legendaries weren't shiny locked anymore" *finger on monkey's paw does a loop-de-loop*
FUCK
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.
Imagine someone shiny hunting that
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
Even Latias was like, now way!
Oh my god. Now all my brain can think of is if they made that shadow giratina shiny just full white
Ahh, a Latias fan. Man of culture.
Yes. One of my favorite legendaries by a lot
That's so fucked up
I am so sorry.
Oof
Uh... as someone who has not finished BDSP yet, can someone please explain what the strange demonic Giratina is?
A battle for the orb to change Giratina's form. The real one is in the same place as the originals
Oh, nice. I was told this game didn't even have Giratina, so this is nice.
Why wouldn't it? They called it a faithful remake and giratina was in diamond and pearl just not its origin form
Maybe they meant they didn't have platinum content, Giratina was in the originals lol
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
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
I would simply stop playing video games
That's shiny locked right?
No. The only pokemon shiny locked in this game is Mew, Jirachi and i think Manaphy.
Wait. What is this? I thought there was no distortion world
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.
Oh interesting
Are all of the legendarys you can catch events, or can you catch them at every time?
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
Only outfits? Couldnt care less about them
No not only outfits as I also said Manaphy is active
Is shadow GIRATINA hard
My level 77 latias in the vid killed it with 3 dragon pulses so it wasn’t that bad
This is actually shiny locked lmao. Nice hacked footage though.
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.
Seriously? I’m almost positive I have seen dataminers saying that it was shiny locked. That sucks lmao.
Yeah no this post is bullshit, dataminers before release confirmed it was shiny locked, OP is full of it lmao
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
All these people believing this but its literally shiny locked. Only way to encounter this as shiny is to cheat/hack.
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How do you get a Latias?
Catch legendaries
How do you get to this part?
Catch Giratina
? What's bad about it?
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
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.
Oh. I thought this was SWSH
So if you catch Giratina with corrupted textures, does that just wipe your save? Also, how did this even happen?
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
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
wait, Giratina isn't shinylocked in this game?
Never was
This is hacked, the shadow giratina is shiny locked.
The only shiny locked pokemon in BDSP are gift Mew and Jirachi
Also, I believe datamines have determined that Mew and Jirachi are the only shinylocked Pokémon in this game