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Pokémon Community Thread: Gotta Catch 'Em All!
- Thread starter ThatObviousUser
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I feel like the only one who has never even seen a shiny.
worry not as your day shall come... just hope its not during battle subway lol
Robin64
Member
Knowing my luck, I'll finally come across my first shiny and it will be a bloody Garchomp.
Worst shiny ever? I reckon so!
In White I hatched a shiny Joltik which evolved into this:Knowing my luck, I'll finally come across my first shiny and it will be a bloody Garchomp.
Worst shiny ever? I reckon so!
Why do they even make shinies like this? I understand not wanting to make every shiny a drastically different colour scheme but at least make it so it's noticeably different in battle without having to see the sparkle when it's sent out.
The anime sometimes use different colors for pokes like that one purple kelceon.
ThatObviousUser
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Pokémon Pearl: 262 hours
Pokémon SoulSilver: 375 hours
Pokémon Platinum: 49 hours
Pokémon White: 150 hours
Total: 836 hours
Bought Platinum a couple months after SoulSilver just to keep the rush going. Should replay it one of these days.
Robin64
Member
And your shiny finds, kind sir?
ThatObviousUser
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A Gyarados in SoulSilver and I think, maybe, a Bidoof in Pearl, but I don't think I have it anymore. I can't say I've ever conclusively found one in the wild ever.
White: 108 hours
White replay: 12 hours
Red: We're probably talking close to 1000 hours given I used to replay the entire game frequently, getting the full 150 each time by borrowing my sister's Blue. Had I actually gotten to go to a Mew event one time and reached 151 I would have considered the game 'beat' and not replayed it nearly as much. My inability to ever finish the game is what made me constantly play it.
Maybe 15 hours for Gold.
Nothing for the in-between.
White replay: 12 hours
Red: We're probably talking close to 1000 hours given I used to replay the entire game frequently, getting the full 150 each time by borrowing my sister's Blue. Had I actually gotten to go to a Mew event one time and reached 151 I would have considered the game 'beat' and not replayed it nearly as much. My inability to ever finish the game is what made me constantly play it.
Maybe 15 hours for Gold.
Nothing for the in-between.
I'll be putting a lot more into White once I'm done with my replay. I never got properly stuck into the post-game. You'll have a friend in me.
JUST LIKE REAL LIFE AMIRITE?
I spent a lot of Gen IV on GameFAQs doing random battles, yes. But the biggest amount of time was spent breeding/ EV training. I'd just but be doing it while I did other thigs like watching TV, doing homework or playing other games.
But hoooooowwww? You need at least one hand on the DS constantly to do the required number of steps of egg hatching!
While waiting for matches in Street Fighter IV, during Final Fantasy XIII cutscenes...
But not simultaneously. That would be crazy.
This is truly what handhelds were made for. /salute
ScraftyDevil
Banned
My 3DS is never off, always in sleep mode. I play it while I'm watching movies on my computer, waiting for the three years required to find another 3rd Lord in UMvC3, eating anything, taking the bus to my parent's house, and instead of sleeping. I must've logged over 1000 total hours into the Pokémon series as a whole.
ThatObviousUser
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I'd probably put that in if I really ever tried to get all the Battle Frontier/Subway prints. As it stands I only cracked 300 in SoulSilver because of the Pokeathlon.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
Oh, and if we're on the topic of bad shinies, take a gander at this:
It's like they just raised the palette one tone and called it a day.
It's like they just raised the palette one tone and called it a day.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
So is Gible, but that doesn't give him a by.
man i love this track it just makes me want to do drugs and go to a club with bright flashing lights and sweaty people.
I somehow end up owning most of the doubles which I always put between 50 and 100 hours into. I think I put around 250 hours into White, don't remember the rest.
I do remember though at some point I calculated around 3000 hours into the first generation, but I don't even remember how I did it
They've got to have the right nature and ability for me to even bother checking IVs. Why bother otherwise? You'll just get yourself depressed.
I've personally never seen a shiny in the wild.
My little brother SWORE he saw one once, of course he didn't catch it and thought it was an in game error...
That being said, the fact that I hatched a shiny Feebas with above average IV's was a miracle. Although his personality wasn't what I desired, the fact that he was shiny and had strong IV's from all the breeding I'd done made me feel good enough.
*pours out some Sugar Free Red Bull in his memory
My little brother SWORE he saw one once, of course he didn't catch it and thought it was an in game error...
That being said, the fact that I hatched a shiny Feebas with above average IV's was a miracle. Although his personality wasn't what I desired, the fact that he was shiny and had strong IV's from all the breeding I'd done made me feel good enough.
*pours out some Sugar Free Red Bull in his memory
ThatObviousUser
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"It's strongest in Attack. Its HP is good too. So is its Defense. So is its Special Defense. It can't be better in that regard."
Then I walk out filled with SWAG.
ScraftyDevil
Banned
"This Pokémon has overall superior potential. It's best strength lies in it's Attack. It couldn't be better in that regard. It's defense is good, too."
That's the moment I realized that my positive attack nature Scrafty with Moxie as its ability (caught in a random encounter on Route 4, with no save scumming for nature) was something that only came along once in a blue moon.
I love him so much.
That's the moment I realized that my positive attack nature Scrafty with Moxie as its ability (caught in a random encounter on Route 4, with no save scumming for nature) was something that only came along once in a blue moon.
I love him so much.
ThatObviousUser
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ScraftyDevil
Banned
Naw, dawg. The moveset of a truly beastly Scrafty is as follows:
Hi Jump Kick
Crunch
Stone Edge
Dragon Claw
Throw a Wide Lens into the mix and YOU'RE THE BEST! AROUND! NOTHIN'S GONNA EVER BRING YOU DOWN!
ScraftyDevil
Banned
I have 8 event Celelbies and they all differ in IV values, so I wouldn't count on it.