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Shiny hunting ireland

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  • 07-08-2012 8:05pm
    #1
    cakemonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭


    just post when you catch a shiny, and what your next target is. this thread is also used for the trading of shinies.
    right now I have woobat, and I'm hunting in pinwheel forest for anything, really.
    DOES NOBODY LEGIT SHINY HUNT ANYMORE? SERIOUSLY!


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    #2
    Just Like Heaven
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,132 ✭✭✭Just Like Heaven


    Hey man the odds of finding a shiny are 1 in 8,192 so don't bother hunting. Just y'know.





















    Become the very best :cool:


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    #3
    Banjo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,485 ✭✭✭✭Banjo


    The thread for Shiny hunting, w00ts and general chit chat is over here :
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=64891373

    It's been dead for a while. I guess there aren't enough shinies in B/W :(
    Hunting them is pointless. Masuda or RNG methods not so much.


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    #4
    wobbles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,090 ✭✭✭wobbles


    Hunting shinys is very time consuming. Ive only ever seen maybe 5 shinys in the wild. However, i have used the masuda method with reasonable success, although getting a shiny charmander made all the egg hatching worthwhile. Ive also hatched other shinys, but he the first and best.

    It also allowed me to send over hundreds of charmanders to my pokemon ranch so i could get the legit mew from that game. Win/Win


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    #5
    cakemonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭cakemonkey


    Dammit, im just going to delete this thread.


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    #6
    Rendeva
    Registered Users Posts: 41 ✭Rendeva


    fewtinsoffroth wrote: »
    Hey man the odds of finding a shiny are 1 in 8,192 so don't bother hunting. Just y'know.

    You can raise the odds significantly with the Masuda method or PokeRadar glint chaining, and there are many Shiny Hunters on various Pokemon forums with impressive collections...


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    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    All the shinys (excluding the Red Gyarados of course who was awesome) I've gotten have been the crap ones. A Caterpie was my first, Noctowl second, both in Gold. Got only one since then and I can't even remember which game it was in. One of the newer ones anyway but not Black/White. I think it was a Krabby or something. It was a small area of grass in the middle of a water area. Not very specific, I know but it's been a while :pac:

    I tried the Pokeradar thing but always got bored running into the same useless Pokemon time and time again. I don't really see the point in hunting for them, they aren't any better than the normal ones as far as I can tell.


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    Banjo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,485 ✭✭✭✭Banjo


    They're exactly the same as normal ones. They just look better.
    It's about bragging rights really - You can only get a shiny through blind luck or a lot of hard work, and in the case of 'mon that don't commonly occur in Gen4 grass you're talking about RNG abuse or Masuda, neither of which is a lot of fun. No one can see your perfect IVs or your awesome EV distribution, but when your golden Lucario jumps out of his ball and sparkles, someone in the room will always go "oooooh!"


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    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    First shiny in a while today. A Unown in Crystal. Hardly any difference and I probably wouldnt have noticed had it not been for the little animation at the start. Why couldnt it have been one of the Pokemon I plan on using? Does anyone actually use Unown?


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    Banjo
    Registered Users Posts: 10,485 ✭✭✭✭Banjo


    Only to spell out amusing messages in otherwise unpopulated boxes. I got a shiny F unown in HG or SS. I was almost tempted to use it. Almost.

    Actually, anyone sending their cart to Buzz for the Keldeo event should make it a priority to capture a tonne of unown and write her a short note :)


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    popzmaster
    Registered Users Posts: 360 ✭✭popzmaster


    Banjo wrote: »
    Only to spell out amusing messages in otherwise unpopulated boxes. I got a shiny F unown in HG or SS. I was almost tempted to use it. Almost.

    Actually, anyone sending their cart to Buzz for the Keldeo event should make it a priority to capture a tonne of unown and write her a short note :)

    An inspired idea good sir!


    Edit: just saying ive STILL never got a random encounter shiny...:(


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    cakemonkey
    Registered Users Posts: 28 ✭cakemonkey


    popzmaster wrote: »
    Banjo wrote: »
    Only to spell out amusing messages in otherwise unpopulated boxes. I got a shiny F unown in HG or SS. I was almost tempted to use it. Almost.

    Actually, anyone sending their cart to Buzz for the Keldeo event should make it a priority to capture a tonne of unown and write her a short note :)

    An inspired idea good sir!


    Edit: just saying ive STILL never got a random encounter shiny...:(
    badLuckBrian.jpeg


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