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After 20 years of playing Pokemon, I finally came across a wild shiny! But I couldn’t catch it because I had just begun a play through of Heart Gold and I didn’t have access to Poke Balls yet š¢ Pain.
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It knows!
Celery? Heheh.
A true monkey paw
RIP
What an absolute tragedy
My first shiny experience was a meowth from pokemon leaf green but it was owned by a trainer in the battle tower. š¢
I don’t really understand shinies. Are they only good because they are rare?
Where is the sense of decency?
42 minutes and no “F” in the chat?
At least you didn’t make a brown golbat faint…
I’ve never seen a shiny. I always assumed they would…. look shinier….
That’s what happens when you pick the worst starter /s
Damn, this hurt.
Yeah and now in new games shinies are nearly as common as the normal ones and you could probably get 50 shinies or more in just a normal playthrough before even hitting midway through
when I was younger I caught something with Pokerus
I had no idea what that was and just shelved it in my box and later wiped the save
r/wellthatsucks
My first shiny was an Illumise, I remember thinking, “That? That’s my first shiny??”
Iāve only played blue and red.
Never heard of a shiny before.
So when you say 20 years. I think of those original game versions.
You have a picture, that almost the same thing because at some point all natty shinies are just to look at in your box so not much diffrence
Been playing for 19 years and I’ve only encounter one shiny. It was a ghastly in Pokemon moon; I no longer have the game so I no longer have the ghastly (his name was Boo-berry.) I completed the dex for sword and shield and still didn’t find a shiny there.
My first shiny was zorua in Omega ruby. So clean
CELERY!!? THAT’S SO CUTE!
the only shiny i found was zubat in soul silver.. sadly i didnt save the game and the battery died.
You should probably never gamble, you have the worst luck Iāve ever heard of
In all my childhood of playing, I have only come across one shiny and that was a diglett in Pokemon Leaf Green.
First shiny I ever saw was an abra…
fitst? wait until you find out about legends arceus and scarlet/violet
I know the pain. Same thing happened to me with a Wurmple in Pokemon Emerald.
Just wasn’t meant to be.
Rage!
Never seen one with 25 years of playing and 50000, if not more, hours total. Believe me there’s worse than you
It’s time to learn to tie a noose
Leaf Green Pidgey manā¦Iāve been here.
F
Other than red Gyarados I have never ran into a shiny in the older games(too easy these days). I’ve been playing for 22 years. Never. I tried to get my wife to play one and on her very first playthrough she gets a shiny Eevee. So annoyed.
I’ve got a shiny pidgeot that i caught as a pidgey in viridian forrest on Leaf Green. Then I caught caught a shiny slowpoke on three island but I forgot to save progress before I closed my emulator š
My username has summoned me here
I JUST started a fresh save of soul silver this week, itās so much fun I havenāt played PokĆ©mon in years. I forgot how thoughtful the game creators were to sneak in good lessons for kids. People you meet in the game say things like āA good leader is a compassionate oneā and teach you to be nice to your PokĆ©mon haha. So wholesome.
ah yes 20 years of playing pokemon. Playing the game only twice by playing it 20 years ago and today.
I found a shiny Raikou back in PokƩmon Gold when I was a kid but we were on our way out of the house and my mom took my Gameboy and turned it off.
I still see him in my dreams to this day and wonder what if?
Didn’t even know the old games had shiny..
Sorry, I haven’t played Pokemon in ages! What’s a shiny?
Wait we need to talk about him having chikorita as his starter..
Wanna hear something terribly depressing?
I’ve played since red/blue came out in the US… I actually played and helped translate Japanese yellow/green roms (before yellow hit the US), and Gold/Silver/Crystal roms similarly. Bro I *had* a PokĆ©mon yellow Gameboy Color (the special pikachu edition! I lost it, i digress)
I literally didn’t know what shiny’s were, we didn’t know about them in my friend group because they were so rare and nobody really talked about them on GameFAQs…
One day, playing PokĆ©mon Gold on a real cart version (not a rom), this was maybe my 3rd or 4th play through of the whole game but I think the 1st on my real cart not a rom… I was maybe 3/4ths of the way through the game…. I was out grinding leveling up pokĆ©mon, and I came across a Entei that looked suuuuper fucking weird… Colors were all off!! I had no clue what it was!! (I knew rare legendary dog, but not shiny!) I tried catching it, but every attempt failed, i had no master balls no ultra balls just shitty pokeballs. I unfortunately had to kill it. Woah is me, right?
I still didn’t learn what the fuck a shiny was until probably about 10 years later… Literally only way the fuck after the fact did I realize I missed out on probably one of *the* rarest catches in the game š