Pokémon

[LovelyPenguin]

I have a shiny poliwag which I randomly found in the wild and a shiny eevee which I somehow got from wonder trades, oh yeah and that shiny gyarados.

Sweet! Is it going to be (or is it already) a Poliwrath or a Politoed?

Currently a shiny Gothorita (now Gothitelle), Electrode, and Gyarados, although for me a shiny Gyarados isn't something to really gloat about since there's always one to catch in HGSS, even though mine one was from a Friend Safari. Still, a shiny mega pokemon is certainly something.

This is far less than how many my younger brother has.

Yup, I'd say a shiny gyarados is still something special, as long as it wasn't the guaranteed one from HG/SS. See, what I really like about shinies is their rarity: for one caught in the wild it represents a thrilling, really lucky encounter. For a shiny pokemon you've bred, it represents the fruits of your labors, hours of hard work put into getting just the pokemon you wanted. That's why I like my natural shinies more, as opposed to the ones I got from the GTS; even if the GTS ones aren't generated/cloned, they don't carry with them the same memories as, say, the time I was level grinding and found a golden Donphan.

Currently in X I have two shinies.
This pretty guy I found in a friend safari and posted about it previously in this thread. I use it sometimes on battlespot with a quick claw because he has a quiet nature (but 31 speed IV :/).
And a shiny Durant I found in horde battle, but it has pretty bad nature/stats so it stays in my box.

I also have shinies I got from wondertrad/trading but they are probably cloned, plus they don't have my trainer ID so I don't care about them.

Yush! Ghost types like Chandelure are soooo cool. And same here, I have a box of shinies I got from the GTS/Wondertrade/random passerby trades, but they aren't quite as special to me, since I didn't breed/encounter 'em myself. Then I have almost a full box's worth of shinies I've either encountered or bred out myself. Haha, I spend wayyyy too much time on this game. Oh, I have one other shiny, and she was my first: my little bro encountered a shiny banette in the wild (in Pearl, I think), and he gave her to me for my birthday, 'cause he knew Banette was one of my top favorites. Her name is Marie. ^.^

If anyone wants to know my natural shinies, I can list 'em, but be warned: I have a lot.

[Zygl]

Who here has any shiny pokemon? I kinda have an obsession with shinies. >.<; I dunno, they're just so cool and rare. Kinda like swag for your pokemon. XD

I found a Rhyhorn on my way to that place where Shaymin is in Platinum. Not sure I'd count that, though, if I'm not mistaken I caught it with one of like 50 billion Master Balls I got illegitimately in Gen 3 and transferred into it.

I need to replay all the games up to Gen 5 legitimately. But at the same time as far as I know GameFreak's bizarre obsession with giving Celebi away literally every time (after the first time) there's been an event for it leaves me with no way to even get a legit-looking Celebi in any game before Y, so it's all a very stupid thing to waste my time trying to do. Might replay Platinum anyway, though, I don't believe I used a Kricketune on my previous run which pretty much invalidates the whole thing.

[LovelyPenguin]

I found a Rhyhorn on my way to that place where Shaymin is in Platinum. Not sure I'd count that, though, if I'm not mistaken I caught it with one of like 50 billion Master Balls I got illegitimately in Gen 3 and transferred into it.

Hey, as long as you didn't cheat to encounter the thing, I'd say it's legit.

Think I'll list my shinies. Whoo, this is gonna be a long list:

Encounters pre-Gen VI:

Marie - female banette; the aforementioned bday present, encountered by my bro.

Ivory - female donphan; my first shiny encounter, level grinding post-game in HG.

GreenPants - female scrafty; found her while I was trying to fill my dex in W2 for that Shiny Charm.

Encounters in Pokemon Y:

Mandrake - female vileplume; 1st gen VI shiny, & my only one so far to appear before beating a game.

Depth Charge - male qwilfish; chain-fished that sucker.

Grace - female butterfree; found her while walking back to a PC after an Elite 4 run.

Nectar - female bellossom; found her in a friend safari while looking for an ivysaur.

P. T. Barnum - male conkeldurr; 1st shiny encounter after getting the Shiny Charm.

Medusa - female seviper; found her on a berry-collecting spree.

Crayon - male smeargle; I gave him Payday, Water Shuriken, Magnet Bomb, and Heart Stamp.

Stomach Ache - female swalot; found her in a horde while looking for hidden ability plusles.

Nightfire - female chandelure; found in a friend safari while level grinding.

Dust Bunny - male diggersby; found while randomly running through grass.

Dergoyle - female gliscor; found in a horde while I was trying to mug items off random pokemon.

Boss - male dedenne; found in a friend safari while I was leveling up one of my other shinies.

Bubblegum - female ampharos; I was looking for Plus mareeps, and she was the "leader" of a horde.

Pistil - red flower florges; found her while level grinding in a friend safari.

Chomptail - female girafarig; friend safari again (I gotta say, Shiny Charm + Friend Safari's upped shiny odds probably factors heavily into a lot of these).

Mainspring - right now he's a klang, but I'm working on him (hey, I only got him today); friend safari.

Masuda Breeding:

Rosa - While breeding for a Storm Drain maractus with the stats I wanted, she popped out. Unlike a lot of my other projects, I wasn't breeding exclusively for a shiny, but I almost always use foreign parents when I breed.

Gandalf - male mismagius; mom was caught in a Fast Ball in HG.

Cold Oinks - female; I just really wanted a mamoswine with a silly name like this, so I did the only logical thing and bred until I got a shiny one.

Lovely - a female empoleon with Defiant. How rare is that!?

Adonis - male milotic; he didn't have the Cute Charm I wanted him to have, but all in all I think he came out rather well.

Red Terror - female dusclops; has max defenses, and holds an eviolite, thank you very much.

*Edit*: and now I just finished breeding Rocket the male arcanine, as well.

I'm actually rather surprised I have so many, when I think about it. I mean, as far as the shinies I've bred go, those will eventually appear if I employ the Masuda Method and hatch enough eggs (and trust me, I've hatched soooooo many eggs).

But for the random encounters, I guess it's just because I play the game so often that I'm bound to encounter a shiny every now and then. It probably helps that they upped the odds of getting a shiny in Gen VI, and that I got the Shiny Charm on top of that. As well, Friend Safaris have higher odds of shinies appearing (as I said earlier), and that's where a fairly good amount of mine have come from.

So uh, yeah, I'd highly recommend filling your pokedex and making lots of friends.

[Blivsey]

I caught a shiny Unown because I was busy trying to catch all the forms. I also, apparently, saw a shiny Litwick at some point when I was playing Pokémon Black. I guess I didn't even notice a difference, because I only found out when I was browsing my Pokédex randomly one day and found the Shiny page filled for it.

I also found a shiny Murkrow in a horde while I was playing my friend's copy of X. He fell victim to the Lumiose glitch, though.

[LovelyPenguin]

I caught a shiny Unown because I was busy trying to catch all the forms. I also, apparently, saw a shiny Litwick at some point when I was playing Pokémon Black. I guess I didn't even notice a difference, because I only found out when I was browsing my Pokédex randomly one day and found the Shiny page filled for it.

I also found a shiny Murkrow in a horde while I was playing my friend's copy of X. He fell victim to the Lumiose glitch, though.

Nuuuu, not that stupid Lumiose Glitch! Did he get the patch to fix it, though? I think even after the glitch happens to you, you can get the patch and you'll be working again. Also yeah, Litwick's shiny coloration is pretty subtle. That's why whenever I start any wild battle, I inspect the screen carefully to see if there are any sparkles. There are more than a few pokemon whose shiny palette is barely noticeable from the regular one, and I'm too paranoid about losing a shiny.

[Blivsey]

Nuuuu, not that stupid Lumiose Glitch! Did he get the patch to fix it, though? I think even after the glitch happens to you, you can get the patch and you'll be working again.

It happened before there was a fix, unfortunately.

[LovelyPenguin]

What was your first pokemon game? For me, it was playing the postgame of my bro's copy of Pearl. I had loved pokemon since it first came out, but didn't actually start playing the video games until 4th gen. >.>;

[KobaBeach]

I don't really remember

I think it was a ROM of one of the Gen 1 games??????? Possibly Blue?????????

I always pick Squirtle btw

[Sorel]

My first Pokemon hame I owned was Diamond, although I'm a fan of Pokemon since my brothers 6th birthday. (He got the LeafGreen Bundle)

[pholtos]

First thing I ever really owned I got for my ?? birthday. It was a combo purple see-through game boy color and pokemon blue. I always either went squirtle or bulbasaur for that game.

[jayScribble]

Technically, my actual first pokemon game experience is either "Stadium", "Snap", or "Hey You, Pikachu!"... in Japanese.

Leaf Green was my first pokemon game I own, though it was shared with my little brother. My youngest brother had Fire Red as his first pokemon game. My eldest had Pokemon Blue as his first.

[yogui]

My first game was Red. My brother got blue. Then I got Gold and he got Silver.
All the pokemons games I played in order:
Red -> Yellow -> Gold -> Crystal -> Sapphire (on emulator) -> Colloseum -> XD -> Diamond -> HeartGold -> X
I also played a bit of some games on emulator just to try but never finished them, including fire red and platinium. And for HeartGold I bought it but never finished it as I got tired of pokemon. Until HeartGold I didn't played any new pokemon games and skipped all Gen 5 until I decided to start playing pokemon again with Pokemon X.

[Saturn Moriya]

I never really thought much of Pokemon, until there was a girl I liked that was way into it. I tried Pearl, had alot of fun with it but stopped at the elite four because I didn't grind enough and I didn't care. Later I played Black, and I beat that all the way through because she did too, (yeah I'm pathetic) even though I didn't like it that much.

A year later when all the teenage hormones calmed down I tried Yellow and I had a blast. I beat the elite four and I got all pokeymans excluding porygon and the trade evolutions.

Some time after that I played Emerald. I got really bored during that playthrough but I beat the entire thing anyways.

I like Pokemon, but not much. I can see the appeal, but it doesn't mean much to me. It just seems like a flat, simplified, drawn out rpg with a collecting gimmick, and in later sequels, many mechanics I need nor want to use. The game definitely has its charm, but that charm doesn't work for me in more than one game. I think I can say I don't see the value in any of the games past Gen 2 (plan to play Crystal sometime soon), without that attitude coming from nostalgia glasses.

E: oh yeah I also played Red Resque Team forever ago, before I even knew what a girl was. That one's fantastic. Though I guess Mystery Dungeon is another thing entirely.

[Menshay]

It just seems like a flat, simplified, drawn out rpg with a collecting gimmick, and in later sequels, many mechanics I need nor want to use.

Plus the obscenely complex competitive multiplayer mode, I guess.

[Sorel]

But at least, compared to other RPGs, there is a multiplayer mode. (Only one I remember is Dragon Quest IX. Its pretty cool to grind together.)

[Jesuiscontent]

Its pretty cool to grind together.)

l-lewd o///////o

Also I started with pokemon red get on my level scrubs

My first game was Red. My brother got blue. Then I got Gold and he got Silver.

WOW same here amazingly inconceivable

[Clamestarebla]

My first game was Red. My brother got blue. Then I got Gold and he got Silver.

WOW same here amazingly inconceivable

Same here, but reversed.

[HamsterZerg]

My first Pokemon game was Snap.

[july]

The first Pokémon game I played was Red (on an emulator). The first Pokémon game I owned myself was Ruby. To this day, Route 110's music is stuck in my head.

[Lunikyuu]

My first pokemon game was either Blue or Yellow, I can't remember exactly. Oddly enough, I have more nostalgic memories of gens 2 and 3 than I do for gen 1, at least as far as the games are concerned (I was more into the anime back in gen 1 I think). Squirtle's still my favorite starter though .

[KobaBeach]

Squirtle's still my favorite starter though.

You.

You are an awesome person.

[july]

Squirtle's still my favorite starter though.

You.

You are an awesome person.

Don't encourage him! Bulbasaur's better!

[Clamestarebla]

Chikorita master race

[KobaBeach]

Chikorita master race

Chikorita is awesome too!

You are also an awesome person!

Don't encourage him! Bulbasaur's better!

I do what I want

[HamsterZerg]

No love for Chespin? Its final form is the flippin' JUGGERNAUT, for cryin' out loud!