Daely Snack: Have shinies lost their purpose?

Shinies. The elusive differently coloured Pokémon that were so rare that most people thought they were hoaxes/glitches/hacks. Yet, with the internet becoming more and more widespread, soon everyone knew about them. With a 1 in 8000 chance of finding them, they were truly sought after by collectors who had to put considerable effort into getting them.

With people complaining they couldn’t get one, Gamefreak threw a bone and released several shiny Pokémon as events, in addition to making some slight tweaks to the chance of finding shinies. Sorry folks that had a shiny Raikou, your’s became so common that people didn’t care about your achievement anymore. Luckily there were only a few event Pokémon, leaving a majority still hard to catch (even when using the Pokéradar).

But XY changed even more than that. They made so many tweaks that, as evidenced by the comments here and on other sites, you could easily find three shinies a day. The Safari zone with hundreds of Pokémon available, a new egg breeding mechanic, horde battles, the Pokéradar is back and maybe even a tweak to the base chance itself! This brings my to my concern of today: is there still a point in shinies?

The major thing about shinies was not that they were differently coloured. In fact, you could say that over half of all Pokémon looks worse or almost not different at all in their shiny form. No, the thing that made them cool was the rarity of finding one, the thrill of encountering and successfully catching it. It shouldn’t be only about its looks, but also on the memory that is attached to it. But with XY the rarity is gone. People will stop caring about your feat. “Oh, you got 30 shinies? I got 60, hmpf.” The whole elusive aspect went away, and that makes shinies not that exciting for me anymore as they once were.

But that’s just me of course. What do you think? I’d love to hear your opinion in the comments, and when I got the time I will try to respond to them. Seeing as this is a discussion post, keep spam to a bare minimum. If you got something interesting to say, say it, but don’t start 200 comments threads about one battle you had, use the chat.

~Daedardus~

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3,018 thoughts on “Daely Snack: Have shinies lost their purpose?”

  1. I found an error “The elusive differently coloured Pokémon that were so rare that most people though they were hoaxes/glitches/hacks.”

    ‘people though’ People thought.

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  2. I say no. They’re still hard enough to get an really cool looking, too. I have great memories attached to my shiny Diggersby. You should appreciate shinies not for what they are, but for what memories they hold.

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  3. Shinies are still hard to find for people who are not trying to find one but I agree with what is said above. The thing with shinies nowadays is that they’re still rare but you know you an find one if you try hard. That takes the whole idea behind them being very exclusive things. I can try Masuda method right know and I know I’ll end up with shiny soon or not but I’m not trying because it feels like a little waste of time.

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  4. As shinies have gotten pretty easy to find, there’s only a couple of ways to do it. People are speculating that they even ROSE the chances of finding a shiny randomly in the wild! Chain fishing shinies seem to have lost their purpose, but they aren’t always easy to find. It could take someone 6 chains, 78 chains, or even 150+ chains! Now for horde battles. Horde battles aren’t as easy to find a shiny in as everyone thinks. You need to sweet scent and run MANY ON MANY times. You may not even find a shiny at all, which gets a lot of players frustrated! Now for poke radar. Oh poke radar. Using the poke radar, you must have over a 40 chain to find a shiny. This is frustrating because people can break their chains on the second encounter. It is very hard to master, and you must know the basics. Masuda Method: One of the easiest ways to breed a shiny in this gen. Not the easiest. Plus wonder trading the bad ones away gets really tedious. In conclusion, shinies still have their value, but only in some ways, not all.

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    • Still. A 1 in 200 chance is fourty times a big as a 1 in 8000 chance. Shinies have not become that common, but it sure became way easier to get them.

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  5. According to my brother, he ran across three Pokemon in his game. Two were caught by chain fishing (Whiscash and Poliwhirl) and one by chance accident (Noibat). So I suppose that shiny catching has indeed gotten a wee bit easier for trainers nowadays.

    But personally, I find it much more appealing to run into a shiny unexpectedly rather than through chaining. It’s like GoomyForever said earlier in the comments, the memories of coming across my two shiny Pokemon – a Rhyperior and a Leavanny – are with me forever and put a silly smile on my face. Thanks Nintendo for tweaking the PokeRadar and fishing, but I think I’ll take my chances out in the wild. It’s a lot more fun that way!

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  6. SPEAKING OF SHINIES LOOK WHAT I FOUND!!!!!
    (Refresh)
    Terrible nature (gentle)
    BUT A SHINY IS A SHINY (sorry upside down the ipad stupid)

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  7. I guess the rarity is gone for people who play hardcore … but i only play like 2 hours a week and I still haven’t found a shiny in X and Y, so yes I think they’re cool and rare

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  8. THEY HAVE ABSOLUTELY LOST SOME PURPOSE. they’re still exciting to get, but the fact it’s less of a challenge (in some cases) makes it easier to have multiple shinies. They’re supposed to be difficult to get, not however they made it this go around. I think they should have kept the way to get shinies the same. However, the fact that they didn’t does create hype for getting them. I guess it’s sort of become a game to see who can catch the most shinies in the smallest amount of time, or just a game for yourself to go out and use all the methods to get a lot.

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  9. Even though I only have 2 shinies on X, I think they are pretty common, I like how common they are though because (not counting my X) all 4 times i randomly encountered a shiny 2 of the times I knew what a shiny was, 1 of the times I could keep it.

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  10. I never really saw the value of shinies in the first place. Sure they are rare, and some even look pretty cool, but I guess I’m just not that interested.

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  11. I don’t think shinies have lost their purpose, but now they’re growing ever closer to a status symbol rather than a lucky and unique find.
    Sure they increased methods to find shines but they don’t guarantee it since its purely luck and RNGs
    If you found one good for you but don’t go flaunting how many you have (If they’re legit)
    And besides it’s near impossible to catch a shiny with competitiveness qualifications unless they’re hacked (How many times have you fought a guy with shiny non-event Legendary Pokemon I E Latios & Latias)

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  12. When a shiny ditto uses transform does it take on the appearance of a shiny version of the opposing pokemon or a normal version of it?

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  13. For others, yes.
    For me? NO Q__Q I still have NOT found my very first, self caught shiny yet DX< Maybe by my 2nd or 3rd shiny, I'll say it got too easy, but I can't say that yet ;x;

    speaking of that, where are all the places you can tip people at? I wanna see if that actually works to finding shinies.

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        • nope D: as an overall. ever since I was 11 (I’m freakin 17 now) I’ve never encountered a shiny before ;-; I’ve played ruby, emerald (a little), diamond, platinum, black 1, white 2, and now Y. still never encountered a shiny/caught one by myself

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          • oh, well in Hoenn, I always got one of the invisible Kecleon as a shiny and a Whismur in that first cave as a shiny

          • well in white 2 you should have either gotten shiny gible/dratini and a shiny haxorus lol. But those don’t really count as encountering a random shiny though. But hey their still shiny!!!

      • I count 3 shinies equally as my first LOL.

        shiny pidgey route 29 on original Pokemon Gold.
        Odd egg hatched into shiny igglybuff on Pokemon Gold
        then got Shiny gyarados on original Pokemon Gold. I never noticed pidgey/iggly were shiny until I noticed gyarados was red and had the same sparkles that my pidgey had LOL! I was such a little noob at the time. So I started to look at pokes in PC for stars and found out I had two more like the Gyara.

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  14. I wouldn’t say shinies lost their value cause theres still plenty of folk who have yet to even encounter one! But they have lost excitement a tad tad bit. People like to disregard your shiny cause of its nature or ability or IVs etc, but i’m like… its a shiny dude – its already rare enough, so that just annoys me a bit. Other than that, I still scream like a chimp every single time I encounter one. (And this pic doesn’t include the shinies I sent over to my Y version, or past ones that I used to own LOL).

    http://s29.postimg.org/om4zg697r/photo.jpg

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  15. Dae…

    This is what I did my short article about for the magazine application.

    I was going to elaborate on it, much like this, with this exact topic, for my article.

    You stole my idea.

    NOW WHAT DO I DO?

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  16. I’d say no. They’re still hard find. On my X version I NEVER encountered one, but my Y version I only encountered one; my awesome Plusle! 🙂

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  17. Hmmmm….yes and no
    It depends on what you use/want the shinies for
    I’ve caught a shiny in every gen (Silver-Hoothoot, Sapphire-Poochyena, Platinum-Skorupi, White-Audino, X-Fraxure) and was happy every time I ran into one
    I’m trying to get the three shiny Kalos starters to use on my in game team, just to prove that I’ve successfully beaten the game, and have everything I want
    Yes I do think shiny pokemon have been ‘devalued’ but with shiny pokemon never having a true purpose, can they really be ‘devalued’?

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  18. Only ways I have gotten shinies: random encounter, chain fishing, horde battles. Haven’t done Masuda Method, Friend Safari, or Poké Radar. HOW ARE YOU PEOPLE FINDING SO MANY.

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  19. In my opinion, shinies have lost their value, everyone seems to have shinies now, is no more that special thing that only you had

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  20. I haven’t found a shiny since a Pidgey in Silver version. I ran into a shiny Abra in HG, but it teleported -_- But I’m not too upset. Shinies have definitely lost their sparkle. Something that was once random luck and special is now just something you can easily chain for and manipulate the odds to your favor. A brick of gold doesn’t hold its value if everyone else has one.

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  21. I don’t want to sound spoilt, but I don’t know if I’m lucky or unlucky; I was IV breeding protein froakie with a foreign ditto and I got a shiny- but its got torrent!
    If anyone cares, I got a shiny hariyama from emerald and shiny gyarados from diamond. Yes. Diamond

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  22. While they are much easier to find, the magic isn’t gone. Whenever I encounter one or see one in battle, I still find it impressive and I never get used to seeing them. It’s always still a nice surprise 🙂

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  23. I guess I’ll answer the question from the article now. For me, shinies will never lose their surprise and intrigue. Although consecutive fishing guarantees shinies, there are only a limited number of species that can be found using the method. In my opinion, this offsets the certainty of the situation because any other shinies would have to be found either in the wild with the standard 1/8192 chance or with Masuda Method, which actually takes patience.

    I have to admit, after my first two rounds of consecutive fishing I began to feel like I was contributing to a crime because of how easy it was. I almost have to limit myself with how many shinies I get because I could theoretically fill my box with them any day.

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    • “How easy it was” lol. I’ve tried it five times and my button doesn’t click all the way making a slow reel in… Usually around number fifty.

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  24. What nature should I put on my gooey Goomy? It has iron tail which is an egg move. Any ideas? And what should I EV train it and what IVs?

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  25. Daely Snack, i see wath you did there!
    So yea, for me shinys have lost their value, i mean so many event shinys and they seem so comon, just like the shiny haxorus, if you find a shiny fraxure youre extrmely unlucky, because, its just a pokemon that u can find in the post game and everyone has 100% chanses to find it, so yeah.

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  26. Yes. Yes they have. Especially when they started being hacked. Shinies seemed more common than normal colored pokes while online. It’s very irritating. I’ve found three shinies (the first being Wynaut because I had one of those rare in game event eggs that always hatched into shiny Wynaut), not including the Gyarados that was thrown at your face. I lost my shiny Roserade that I caught and trained from a Budew caught at the old chateau. Recently my Shiny Aipom is the best replacement. (It’s pink!)

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  27. To me they still serve their purpose because I don’t really go shiny hunting so coming across them is much more special to me than for others. I’ve only found 3 or 4 my whole pokemon trainer career and I consider them major achievements. Sure I’d like more but I’m not going to spend 60 hours searching for one specific shiny

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  28. For people like me who have absolutely no luck at all when finding shiny Pokemon, shiny Pokemon really have not lost any purpose personally. I still feel envious of others with shiny Pokemon. The last wild shiny I sound was a wingull in sapphire version. I killed it on accident.

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  29. Hey guys I got a Chaney with bold perfect ivs in hp attack defense sp defense and speed. I plan to use protect toxic softboiled and minimize. Is this good

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  30. I really shouldn’t complain about my lack of shiny Pokemon. I’m not really the “shiny hunting” type. I mean I have a shiny Flygon, can’t really get better than that.

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  31. Now that I think about it, I have a real life shiny! Our chihuahua is a blue(silver) Merle, which technically makes her a shiny.

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  32. alright goals for today
    Finish Super Training new guys
    Start stupid research paper
    Finish Gaiasis and pollution Pokemon (and think of names)
    get hungrier then a marooned Snorlax

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  33. I’m trying to completely finish all of my 3DS games other than Pokemon before Christmas so that I can focus on my gift games and also shiny hunt more intensely once Pokemon Bank comes out 😀 On my agenda is Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, getting all collectibles!

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  34. Along with Pixilate, Refrigerate, and Aerialate, we should get Galvanate, Pollinate, and Meditate. Galvanate for normal to electric, Pollinate for normal to grass, and meditate for normal to psychic or fighting.

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  35. I personally couldn’t care less for shinies even before they became more common now. The trouble that you go through for it is just not worth it IMO. If they had better stats or something, I might have some inclination to hunt them, but it would need to be a significant benefit, not like a 0.01% increase

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  36. Anyways about shinies; I never thought they were world all the pain to obtain. Breeding perfect pokemon also takes a lot of time but it pays off by giving you an awesome poke

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  37. I just checked my boxes in my Pokemon White, I have a shiny Froslass that I think I received from a trade. Well, at least I have good GTS bait once Pokemon Bank releases

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  38. Shinies are like legendaries to me……they remain in the PC forever. Honestly, if the shiny is not usable, I find no point in having them. But in all honesty, having a shiny makes your pokemon feel unique, but I find that giving a pokemon a nickname achieves the same essential purpose.

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  39. They haven’t lost value to me. There are just some people that…make them feel like they’re less than they are. (if you can understand that haha). But I love every shiny I have and every shiny I’m going to get. My most prized shiny is, of course, my shiny Metagross. I have a lot of others too, but, like my Metagross, they’re on my Black 2 version.

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  40. I never cared about shinies and I will still not care about them whether they got more common or not… They were always pointless to me… What’s so special about being rarer and of a different color? If shinies were stronger than normal pokémon or had some other special feature exclusive to them, then I would like to catch a shiny…

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    • It’s the human nature of wanting something that is set apart from the normality. It can only be explained by delving into the subconscious of our species.

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  41. L4LW-WWWW-WWW3-BE6E
    omfg what a close call ; __ ;
    IM SO SORRY I FORGOT YOUR ADVICE, REGI Q.Q!! I’ll never forget again! … i hope

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  42. So I’m still indecisive on my Shiftry’s EVs so I thought I’d post my set again

    Shiftry (duh)
    Item: Focus Sash
    Ability: Chlorophyll
    Power Swap, Rock Slide, Leaf Storm, Swagger

    I need good ideas, I’m really bad at trying to figure out EVs so bare with me

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  43. Guys, I’m hearing about an app, like instacheck, except it gives you all the data of your opponent, even the move they choose, on battle spot. Have you guys heard about it? if you’re going to send a link, PLEASE send it to our feedback section and not in the comments.

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  44. Ithsme’s guide to becoming a wizard one day at a time!
    —————————————————————————
    (Every day I’ll give you an interesting fact, so soon you are a wizard.)
    —————————————————————————–
    Google’s original name was backrub.

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  45. Yay! I just hatched a 6 perfect IV Larvesta. I wasn’t intending to do that but meh. I have a 5 iv one if anyone wants that though but I can’t trade today.

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  46. Shinies are still too hard to get for me. I found a Shiny Geodude in Fire Red, and after that, I never found another one after that, until I found a shiny Oddish in a friend safari. Consectutive Fishing is a pain, and with the very limited amounted of Pokemon available fishing, isn’t really worth it. I’d say that most Pokemon look better shiny, but I’d honestly prefer a competitive usable Pokemon over a shiny, even though i could make any Pokemon work as far as I’m concerned. I’d like to find a lot more shinies, as even with the friend safari, increased chances, consecutive fishing, poke radar, which I never use, and masuda method, I’ve only found one shiny in my near month of playing.

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  47. I’ve never found a shiny in the wild EVER!! I don’t know if I just have bad luck or what, but I’ve never even seen a shiny and lost it in battle. So shines have both retained their purpose for me and lost it. On one hand I would still very much like to find a shiny of my own to love and hold, but on the other hand if I never find a shiny it won’t be the end of the world for me.

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  48. Most exciting things of my day:
    1.Getting a Gengar hoodie for Christmas.
    2.Got a huge power Diggersby.
    3.Saw a really disgusting children’s advert about a game called ‘Doggy doo’.

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  49. I GOT A SHINY ALOMOLA RIGHT NOW WITH A CHAIN OF 6 speaking of shinies i would say no yes they introduced new methods but some methods are hard people are in chain of 100 and no shinies yet and friend safari increases shinies but still are hard to get

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  50. I may start designing the professor today..idk (btw did the voting end for her name?)
    Any suggestions as to how she should look? (I have some, but I want dat community feedback)

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  51. Before Y, I had only caught about 2-3 shinies (One in the wild and one MM that I remember in particular). In Y, I have 15 shinies so far. I found one in a horde, one MM, and the rest in the safari or chain fishing. I still get excited whenever I find one though. I try to get good natured and usable shinies of course, but if it’s something I really like, I’ll use it regardless. That being said, it does seem like nearly everyone has at least one shiny now. Despite this, it doesn’t change the excitement I feel whenever I encounter and catch a shiny.

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  52. Good God people! Some of you have like a box filled with shinies and all I have are 2 – a Meditite and an Audino, both in my pokemon Black, that I caught unexpectedly and out of luck.

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  53. gais pls
    “I may start designing the professor today..idk (btw did the voting end for her name?)
    Any suggestions as to how she should look? (I have some, but I want dat community feedback)”

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  54. Getting back on topic here, I think people like them because they look cool and are fun to see with the sparkles and all. Now, if people are using third party programs to get shiny Pokemon, I think that’s not fair at all. All of those people that actually look for them and sometimes don’t find any but at the click of a button you get a shiny almost instantly (looking at you Instacheck). Totally not fair for IV breeders either.
    People wanted shiny Pokemon easier to find, now you got it. But since it’s easier to find them now, everyone complains. They are only doing it because fans wanted that.

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  55. I don’t think shinies really lost their purpose it still takes time and patience and it feels about the same for finding one as before at least for me anyways never cared much about searching for them in the past the first I ever encountered was Zubat in Emerald but thought something was wrong with my game then found Oddish in Leafgreen shinies really are just like any other pokemon so I treat them like I would a non shiny I’m always excited when I catch something because I love pokemon in general never paid attention with natures before so I don’t know whats the best for them if its one of my favorites I will use it shiny or otherwise I’ll admit I prefer the shiny colors on some but not all I like searching for them now but mainly pokemon that I always had a soft spot for if I find one I’m not searching it means another friend to care for 🙂 I also keep their original color as well and just switch to give one a break I treasure all of my pokemon <3 I love both and always happy to see either ^.^ hasn't gotten old yet xD I think I feel even more excited when someone else finds a shiny because its nice to see another that first encounters one and their genuinely happy about it n.n

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  56. i wish illuminate was more useful illuminate could work as intimidate but instead of lowering attack it should lower accuracy just like flash

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  57. Anyone know what the ratio of finding a shiny is in the Friend Safari? Apparently it’s lower than random encounters but not as low as poke radar or chain fishing..,

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  58. Those days you break out to an allergic reaction, then find out your favorite actor had cancer removed, and then shinies are literally being handed out while you’re doing chores. It’s the perfect daaaayyy

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  59. I FOUND THE SHINY CHINCHOU OH MY GOD AT A CHAIN OF 3 OF MY OF MY OF MY OF MY I FREAKING LOVE CONSECUTIVE FISHING HOLY MACARONI

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  60. I know it is so much to ask, but, I need a ditto safari and if anyone has one please add me.
    friend code: 3368-1513-7081
    I have a psychic safari.

    also, if you need more friend safaris, feel free to add me even if you do not have a ditto safari.

    thank you 🙂

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  61. Okay TC told me to refresh and whoever had the comment at the bottom would mean they were first. I refreshed and it was Pipealex.

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  62. I was wondering… if anyone’s on later, can youmaybe try to get a shiny from HMLamb for me? As a thanksgiving thing? Maybe?

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  63. In celebration of Thanksgiving, I’m going to host a contest in which you will design a turkey pokemon for the Zahrre region. Winner gets their pokemon in the game and A Noibat with superior potential and 3 IVs in Atk, Sp.Atk and Sp.Def holding a Big Pearl :3

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  64. If by purpose, you mean their being able to amaze people by surprise and being cherished, then yes, shinies have lost their value. The first shiny I encountered in Y (hawlucha) took me by surprise! The second (grumpig) surprised me too, but I wasn’t to excited. I stopped caring about shinies once I encountered my third (delibird). I have five shinies now, and I’m not very happy about it. I remember when being shiny meant something. Yes, there are some people who still haven’t encountered one, but here’s the solution, if you really want one, try chain fishing. If you are patient enough, I promise you, you WILL find a shiny!

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  65. Nah, I think they’re still pretty amazing in my opinion, they definitely haven’t lost their purpose. I only have 2 shinies so far, Gyarados and Vivillon. Vivillon isn’t that impressive by the way, the body goes white and gray but the pattern stays the same.

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  66. In my personal opinion, I don’t think so. The reason why is that for me they are still hard to come by. I have a hard time doing the chaining method such as the fishing or doing the Pokéradar. The only method that worked for me by getting shinies is the method of breeding, which I got three by doing that method. In a way I can see why people are saying that shiny pokemon lost their value, but they still hold value to the player.

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  67. “Chespins roasting on an open fire,
    Weavile nipping at your nose,
    You’ll find carols being sung by a liar!!
    Merry Christmas to you”

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  68. I don’t know… granted they are easier to find, but people here still haven’t found one yet. they are still rarer to find, and you cant honestly tell me that with the random encounter shiny, your heart doesn’t still skip a beat!

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  69. I have a friend who want’s to know: if you used action replay to obtain a pokemon in games such as platinum and soul silver, will they be affected by the pokemon bank things? Or is that only for the pokegen apps?

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  70. its time for today’s “Let your mind Exel”! heres todays question: pokemon types are a very important aspect to the series, and are probably the most recognized thing about pokemon in general. so, tell me, what is your favorite type?

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  71. Made the Turkey Pokemon. Turkung Grass/Fighting Thankful Pokemon. It uses it’s gobbler as a fist to attack enemies. It’s feathers as razor-sharp blades. @ShinyNoivern (Just figured out how to post pictures lol)

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  72. @Jordinite

    If you haven’t started on a new avatar (idk if you read my request below), could you use this picture? only if it’s fine with you. :p

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    • Sweet mother of pokemon that is one beautiful avatar its perfect thank you so much Jordin I love it 🙂 you are awesome thank you thank you thank you xD I’m gonna annoy you with all of this lol seriously I cant get over your talent my friend

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  73. To answer the question; no.

    In fact, I still think shinies are far too rare. They really don’t HAVE a purpose. They are not that special besides being bragging rights, which isn’t always a positive thing.

    I suppose this is because I see shinies are just alternate colored Pokemon. If anything, it’s a cool change, not so much OMGIHAVEASHINY. There are many Pokemon where I like the shiny coloration better than the regular, and vice versa.

    Basically, I guess for people who value shinies as ‘rare bragging rights’, perhaps the value has gone down a little, but getting a shiny is still ridiculously tedious. Even with X an Y cutting the value by half, the probability is still below 1% WITH Masuda Method, which is absurd.

    If the actual targeted market of Pokemon is the focus (the children) then yeah, it’s a different story because the little kids have a lot more time on their hands. The actual buyers market of Pokemon, the college student, typically have a lot of other responsibilities that don’t allow time for grinding for a different colored pixel monster that can take months and months due to the low probability.

    They have no problem obliterating the meta game, why they are so stingy about color palettes is beyond me.

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  74. i found a new method of consecutive fishing, if the chain passes above 10 give up and begin again surprisely it worked for me

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  75. The problem is the purpose of shinies was wrong. Them being things that are so far beyond control that you have to give them huge amounts of value is wrong.

    They should be just opportunities to have something different. I miss Gen1 Stadium. Each of the 150 Pokemon had a variety of color pallets depending on the nickname they had. I remember trading my Pokemon back and forth changing its nickname to see the variety of colors and then picking a nickname that gave me something I liked.

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    • I completely agree with you. I loved how nicknaming pokemon in gen1 and 2 made them have different colors in Stadium/Stadium2 depending on the nickname!

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      • Exactly. I wish they would drop the concept of rare shinies, and create a handful more of pallet swaps for all Pokemon, and either let them be random in wild, or make a place in game you can go to get them changed.

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    • They are really important believe it or not. Special Defense not being perfect could mean the difference between a KO or it taking the hit and KO the opposing Pokemon. 😛

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        • Try breeding with a Ditto or a Pokemon in the same Egg Group that has Special Defense IVs and make sure they don’t have an IV in a stat you don’t need. (e.g. Alakazam doesn’t need Attack IVs)

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          • It’s been makin babies with a Scyther named JesusSaves that I got over Wonder Trade. Ironically it has perfect Sp. Defense IVs.

  76. I shall now post both of the Multi battles between me, @ScroogeOff:disqus, @542f8a265a4fded4a9b5073943208eac:disqus, and Luigi!

    First one, me and Luigi vs. ScroogeOff and Fairly Psychic!
    CA3W-WWWW-WWW3-BK6L

    Second one, me and Fairly Psychic vs. ScroogeOff and Luigi!
    KY8G-WWWW-WWW3-BK73

    Fell free to watch both! 😀

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  77. Honestly, I do feel that the values of shinies did go down, even during the B&W period. I agree with Dae’s reasoning in the post. The rarity of the shinies were their main selling point. But now you can find them easily with the FS. I felt it go down in B&W because most of the people on the GBU I faced had a team of six shinies including legends and you could get some from GTS Negotiations (where I got a lot from) but they’re most likely hacked once I try to send them over with Pokebank 🙁 But it is still a wonderful experience to catch/hatch your own shiny! Trying for a Shiny Magikarp atm with the Masuda Method and so far no luck out of the 70 some eggs I hatched but I cant wait for that moment!

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    • Hacking doesn’t really affect the actual ‘value’ of a shiny. Mainly because, most people either don’t care or feel vexation about you having a shiny (especially if they don’t, if they do they usually shove their accomplished shiny down your throat) so really obtaining a shiny is your own accomplishment.

      Shinies are still rare as hell so I’m not sure how ‘easily’ you seem to think getting them are. People keep confusing luck with skill and apparently haven’t learned statistics yet.

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        • Fishing chains are still luck. It’s only easy because you don’t have to move. xD That’s what messes me up with the radar I HAVE TO MOVE.

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          • all fishing chains are though, is a matter of whether or not you can fish ;-;
            all it is is fishing a bunch of times in a row, and the shiny odds are increased, which makes it even easier…

      • I understand your point and totally agree with you on how obtaining a shiny is your own accomplishment (which feels good). But hacking goes against the system so its no longer by pure chance. So are you saying that obtaining a shiny is skill? because i would love to have that skill but i see it as luck. Probability. And yes, in the end, shinies are still rare.

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        • No, I’m saying people seem to be assuming getting a shiny is by skill. Hacking wouldn’t affect the value of a shiny because getting a shiny is a personal accomplishment. Therefore a hacked shiny doesn’t really take away from one’s personal accomplishment of getting a shiny but doesn’t add anything either. The only way hacking would affect shiny value is if there were only a fixed number of legit shinies in the world as hacking one would lower the overall worth of their existence.

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          • Ahhh ok I got confused there. Since you explained it more, it makes more sense. Well with the hacking, it makes shinies readily available to be battled and traded instead of being a rare chance to see one (competitively). Their overall worth isnt lowered, its just their personal worth. Once you see a team with 6 shinies consistently, it gets tiresome to see especially if you lose to them

    • The only thing I find an accomplishment is hatching a 5 flawless/6 flawless shiny by breeding before pokebank comes out. That is rewarding. TCMets accomplished that!

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  78. I personally say that shinies haven’t lost their purpose at all. Shiny Pokemon may be more common in X & Y (I caught a shiny Petilil in the friend safari and breed a Timid Zorua today) but shinies still take a little bit of time and effort and thanks to shinies being more common more people can have some, people don’t have to cheat to get good battle shinies and now shinies could easily be considered a Pokemon form now like Basculin, Pyroar, Florges, etc. Shinies are still great even after being a lot more common and I still get that sense of achievement when I breed a shiny. Does anyone else agree with me?

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  79. My current team consists of Lanturn, Houndoom, Noivern, and Gourgeist

    Any recommendations for the final two members of my team?

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  80. You better watch out, you better not cry!
    Better not pout I’m telling you why,
    CHANTACLAUS WILL F*CKING COME TO YOUR HOUSE, HAUNT YO *SS, AND EAT YOUR SOUL WHILE YOU SLEEP, B*TCH.
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    Sorry, I had to, how can I not after my name? XD
    #plsnoban

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  81. If Alakazam and Gengar got a Mega, why didn’t Machamp and Golem get one as well? I feel like they’re all together, in that they all require trade to evolve.

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  82. I shall blow your minds guys! (at least some of you)

    Did you know that the Psychic type is based off of the human mind? It’s weaknesses coincide with the fears of the average human; ghosts, darkness, and bugs.

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  83. i really hope for in gen vii they reconnect some megas to real evolution just let them evolve with trading while holding its megastone (banette,mawile,absol i looking at you) obviously its stats and abilitys wouldnt be the same, too OP

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  84. I hate how some people try to be funny on the GTS. I asked for a Japanese Ditto and offered a Pokemon with its Hidden Ability. Guess what I got?

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  85. I almost fill my box with shiny pokemon, here’s the list: (The first few are caught through chain fish, so nothing special, but still)

    Basculin, Relicanth, Kingdra, Seaking, Dragalge, Gyarados, Lanturn, Octillery, Politoed, Crawdaunt, Swoobat, Clawitzer, Talonflame, Flygon, Zigzaggoon, Nidoking, Druddigon, Noivern, Venusaur, Gardevoir, Goodra, Volcarona, Chesnaught, Aegislash, Trevenant, and Litwick. (So far, hopefully more to come.) No, shiny in X and Y are still meaningful because they are earned legitimately and not through hacks.

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  86. Having a really deep moment here. Shinies aren’t tools for showing off, they are memory holders that hold the memories of when you found them, and your crazy butt reaction when you found them! I would never trade a shiny away because of that deepness.

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  87. Here’s a tip: Wonder Trade around this time when the Japanese players are playing to get their generous gifts from Wonder Trade 😀

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  88. Gtg guys. Might not be on tomorrow. What am I saying of course I’ll be on tomorrow even if it is a holiday (that’s good to some and bad to others). Happy early Thankskkanukah!

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  89. Can I ask how to find Shiny Goomy EASIEST?
    Also, @disqus_0yhh9bkWFP:disqus, wanna go back to Google Drive and work on the Pokemon ideas, or are we done? If so, wanna start up a new document and talk about a schedule for the game, what is done and not, our own ideas, etc?

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  90. ok well i am going to start if i am not online tomorrow or tonight. good night to everybody, happy chanukah to anybody who celebrates it and happy thanksgiving

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  91. After I fully complete Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon, what’s next on my agenda…Hm, only one thing left-

    -Fully complete Paper Mario: Sticker Star

    O_O Oh hell no.

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  92. hmm .. im watching some wifi battles, and the people in the video say stuff like “-pokemon here- isnt allowed”. are we seriously restricted from using some pokemon? D: or is it between just the players and not the server itself banning the use of some pokemon?

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      • oh wow xD well, i use that site for some ideas on what would be the best choice to train some pokemon in, but thats about it. i feel restricting pokemon sorta sounds like a weak thing to do . taking down legendaries isnt too hard either . poison bomb an xerneas and heat waving a yveltal usually brings them down to about 40/50% of their health so i feel everything is pretty balanced as is o: but then again, i wouldnt know ;u;’

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      • yea, i believe so. shofu said something about being sorry for using a blaziken in the video . i face lots of people with blazikens so i dont see how exactly theyre banned D: theyre still beatable …at least before all the speed boosts

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  93. So I want to Masuda Method my first shiny Pokemon through hatching. So, which is a good and cool looking Pokemon to MM for? Or should I go with that shiny Fletchling that seems to not want to be caught through the Poke Radar. Help?

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  94. alright, I finally have my full team:
    Shiftry, Ninetales, Walrein, Aromatisse, Drifblim, and Gothitelle
    Now to breed, EV train, level grind, and get the right moves for all these fuckers 🙂

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  95. Just a quick update on my Thanks Giveaway:

    I’ve been very busy the past few days, so I haven’t been able to play as much as I needed to. I probably only got about 5-6 hours the past three days, which isn’t enough. I plan on giving out 6 Pokemon and I plan on having 10 of each so there are plenty to go around. Of the 60 total, I have about 40 Pokemon between the six. I’m trying to get good ones that are worthwhile. It’s not hard, just time consuming.

    I plan on posting a reservation list tomorrow and the day after with all the details of every Pokemon available so people can pick the one they specifically want. Hopefully everyone will be able to see the list over the next two days, and then, probably a day or two after, will be the official Giveaway, so plan on this weekend to be the trades!

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  96. my heart dropped!! jfefj I thought my game froze cause I like bumped it or something and I didn’t save after just catching two shiny fish and I walked in the pokecenter the lights dimmed and it froze for a sec then confetti and what not just shot out of no where now nurse joy is wishing me happy birthday 🙂 haha. amazing. I didn’t realize my 3DS was 1 hour ahead of time lol I have to change it. Atleast these two shiny fish or an early present.

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  97. there’s beginning to become so many Pokemon now that I’m starting to forget names. I couldn’t tell you the name of Spritzee’s evolution if my life depended on it. About to try and masuda for one.

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  98. Hey everyone! I missed you all! I don’t think shinies lost their luster (haha shiny), because it was by dumb luck I hatched a shiny Zorua, though I did use a foreign Ditto.

    In other news, does anybody have a Prankster Sableye, Huge Power Diggersby (Bunnelby), Bullet Proof Cheaspin, and/or a supersized Pumpkaboo? *Females determine the size of offspring 100%, maybe the case with Male Pumpkaboo/Ditto*

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  99. Abra is the most annoying pokemon to breed, I have two flawless abra, but with the wrong ability, and an entire box full of magic guard abra with 5 ivs, just the ivs are in the wrong places DX

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  100. IMMA GONNA WIN AT LIFE, DESTROYING ALL THE PAWN AND BEGINING A HEALTHY ROUTINE YES MOTIVATION UP, I CAN
    WHY AM I POSTING THIS
    IM DUMB
    DAT CAAAAAAAPS

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  101. I’m hoping that the Hoenn remakes or Gen 7 get rid of the PokeRadar and the consecutive fishing and keep it to the original 1/8192 wild encounter rate and a harder Masuda Method chance. I’m getting pissed off with how easy it is.

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  102. Maybe I am just so attached to the old-fashioned sprites of previous generations with the cheesy sparkle sound effect that I cannot get used to the new system. I don’t know, but the shiny system feels a bit less…elusive, wouldn’t you say?

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    • The way shinies bling is my favorite in this gen. Makes my heart pump the way they do a little dimly colored pause before blinking/shining.

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  103. Man Raichu’s cry has changed SO MUCH…..it sounds more realistic, but I kind of miss the old one. I hate Nidoking’s new cry….I liked the older one.

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    • I actually used to be extremely positive, then 7th grade happened, to quote George Carlin, “Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist”

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        • well, being raised by a Christian family, I was generally going to be very positive, then once I got older, I started to find out more about the world, started to get even more disappointed, and that eventually made me into a cynical pessimist

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          • most of my friends over the internet like u, its the same case, then they dissapear and yeah.
            Thats why i live with my brain turned off.

          • well, we just need to brave through, I’m certain that even though our new generation is full of goddamn idiots, we will see a brighter future

          • That’s what I like about this community. We all have something, at least one thing, in common. With it we put our differences in religions, preferences, race, age, etc. behind us and we Seem like friends that’ve been together forever.

          • The world needs to be like this community. We don’t bash each other because of big differences. We just talk about what NEEDS to be talked about!

          • Although there is occasional drama here, we are very respectable, and need to be seen as the head of the Pokemon Community.

          • There is drama, usually stirred up by trolls or someone who has their panties in a wad, but it always gets sorted out.

          • Too much arguing and anti— well, everything. I think the world just needs to fuck all differences in religions, gender, sexual preferences, etc. because the world is only getting worse. The only way to stop violence is to agree or disagree on a problem and then put it behind us. Because, well… We can’t grow if we hold on to things from the past.

          • If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.
            -Yet another quote by George Carlin (rest in peace you amazing man)

          • Although I’m saddened by his death, people need to just relax and understand change. Nobody likes change, yet complain that nothing ever changes. And honestly, war needs to be stopped. World Peace is impossible without all these idiots, sadly. I’m 13 and am smarter than these morons.

          • There is only one question to know if you’d make a good politician: Do you put the needs of others over your own? If you answered Yes, sadly you failed, you wouldn’t be a good politician

          • Obiusly nope, in my own perspective and philosophy, im more important than all of the persons so yea, im kinda a solo guy

          • That’s what I hate about politics. (Aside from fake voter IDs) people vote for their personal wants and beliefs instead of thinking about everyone. I think we should have gay marriage legal, but there are more important matters that need to be taken care of.

          • Paraphrased and contorted. I’ve studied this issue in a bible from today, the mid 1900’s and one from at least the 1800’s. They’re all different.

          • Fuck the bible, i can do wath i want, a little book aint gonna stop me!
            to not make controversy in this comment im not gay.

          • That’s your belief and I respect that. I’m Christian and I live the best I can. But I will not be put down for something I can’t help.

          • I think of it to be more like a guide for a good life, but that can change pretty damn fast when you get people who rewrite it with their personal beliefs.

          • what a coincidence I’m christian and gay too, although I think of myself as more spiritual towards doing good then following a book, also this whole big conversation you guys had is really cool, makes me think that our worlds is going to be in better hands in the future 😛

          • It’s stupid that it is. “Land of the Free” “freedom for all” what about the ones that truly love each other… Partnered gays have a lower separation rate than straights…

          • Ugh. We could have at least respected them and we could have lived in harmony. But noooooooo we had take everything they knew and loved and burn it into many pieces.

          • We most likely would have never survived without the Natives. Although I’m happy were I live and were my family members live, it was most likely taken from the Natives somewhere in time.

          • Lol. My ancestors were a Sir and a Lady (the sir died) she remarried on the boat to Jamestown. It’s a huge lineage for my name. My dads going to be disappointed when I tell them I’m engaged to a man in a few years. xD

          • Well… Chick magnet… I can be… Pictures being taken during “snapchat groups” ( a horde of wild girls on campus with there phones) being passed and EVERY DAMN CAMERA being aimed at you is really awkward. But aye. Girls have never turned me on. Ever. I think one is cute every now and them but it doesn’t do anything for me.

          • I hate snapchat soooooooooooooooooooo goddamn much, I’ve yet to explore my sexual orientation cause, eh just not important to me at the moment, nothing has really turned me on, maybe soon idk

          • I said I was annoyed with people bugging me over whether or not I thought (insert female celebrities here) were hot, I dunno, I personally couldn’t be attracted to celebs myself

          • It’s rare for me to like celebs. There are maybe two or three for me. I used to like Miley Cyrus and then she went bonkers. Now I’m embarrassed! XD

          • I would consider you demisexual. Not really attracted to anyone. Just whomever you share common features with.

          • God, this is why I feel sick when people act all fucking patriotic on Thanksgiving, I feel really bad when I’m enjoying a well-cooked meal in a air-conditioned home on comfortable furniture on the same day these people were pretty much ousted from society

          • well duh, causes for homosexuality has been discovered by science already, btw religion gets trillions more dollars than science does in funding *facepalm*

          • I don’t trust science or religious figures/companies. They can say scientists proved something and it never be a study ( not in this case) and it be true. Same with religion. Just slap a label on and it’s real.

          • I think the main cause of that is fundamentalism, people are so attached to just staying the same and repressing everything that doesn’t fit their status quo

  104. for anyone that wants to know the odds of finding shinies these are the odds as stated by serebii who usually knows what hes talking about. http://www.serebii.net/games/shiny.shtml

    wild shiny in 5th gen: 1/8192
    masuda method 4th gen: 1/2048
    masuda method 5th gen: 1/1365
    masuda method with shiny charm in gen 5: 1/1024

    wild shiny in 6th gen: 1/4096
    wild shiny in friend safari: 1/2000+
    masuda method 6th gen increased 50% bringing it to: 1/640+
    masuda method 6th gen with shiny charm: we don’t know yet but will probably be around 1/200

    we can presume shiny charm is in XY since oval charm made return.

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  105. Okay, let me ask this question so I see where we are at: how many shinies do YOU have in Gen 6, personally? I want to see the varying differences.

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  106. So apparently the pentagon shape in the summary of Pokes means their from Kalos. I guess this is going to be used to determine the pokes traded from 5th gen

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  107. Have you guys ever noticed in the Super Mario 3D World trailer that when Mario and the others are in the pipe, Mario’s looking right up Peach’s dress?

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  108. This whole article right here is Dae’s way of messing with my mind. He doesn’t have any shinies himself, but he sees a select few of us with insane luck talking about our shinies and dramatically blows it up. There is nothing wrong with the system at all! EVERYTHING IS CLEAR NOW!

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  109. I have 5 pokemon from each region not Kalos lined up ready for trade through bank. I wanna check their summaries once they get to XY to see what they say. This can be used to determine if we are revisiting Hoenn or not.

    Cause I know in D/P/P, if you pal parked a Kanto/Hoenn Pokemon it would say they were from Kanto or Hoenn in the summary. But then a Johto Pokemon would say Faraway Place and we got HGSS

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  110. Want to hear something funny? I technically found shinies in every generation except for Hoenn. I plan on changing that with my Super Epic Sapphire Shiny Legendary Encounter Spree (SESSLES is pretty catchy).

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    • I’ve actually begun playing Pokemon Emerald over the past two weeks and was leveling up my treecko starter to lvl 10 before I started into next town and ran into shiny wingull – my first gen 3 shiny. Luckily I had 5 pokeballs from May. Its now on my team. I plan on bringing it all the way up to XY

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      • That was my situation with HeartGold. Restarted a file with event legendaries, got pissed off, 5 minutes into my new file I find a shiny Pidgey. Caught it with my last Pokeball. 😀

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  111. ahhh so its just that pokemon from 5th gen can’t be used in GENERAL for the 6th gen tournaments. HAH!!! take that pokegenners!!

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  112. I still can’t get a shiny, so I’d say no. Even to get a shiny in Gen 6, you’d have to have an awful lot of patience

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  113. “The rarity is gone?” Are you serious? I’ve played through X and Y THREE (3) times now, and have not encountered a single shiny. Take into account that I have not done any shiny hunting, the ‘usual’ rate of randomly encountering a Shiny without Hunting doesn’t seem all that more likely in my experience.

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  114. I believe shinies haven’t lost their purpose. They are still pretty rare and I still don’t have a single one. In the end of the day shinies are still what they are meant to be. Hard to find different colored Pokemon . As long as shinies differ from other Pokemon and as long as I don’t have one they are rare. As long as the color is visually different they are worth something. (Except for shiny Garchomp and Frosslass)

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  115. every website i go on i hear more about this new breeding method,but i havent actually read it thoroughly, or had anyone tell it to me well enough yet. Can someone please explain?

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  116. Even if the chances are lower and that’s slightly disappointing as far as the rarity factor is concerned, most are still by no means easy or fast to get. I’ve spent hours chain fishing and have fifteen boxes of failed MM chespins (well, half were wonder traded away). This doesn’t even count all of the running around in the friend safari that I’ve done! People still remember catching their shinies, and even if the overall time it takes to get one may be slightly less when averaged across everyone playing the game, shiny hunting still takes luck. Nobody’s guaranteed a shiny after 8,192 encounters or 1,200 eggs or whatever the encounter rate may be, so I say that it doesn’t really matter in the end. Getting one, ten, thirty, or sixty shinies still takes a lot of effort and luck! 🙂

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  117. I played over 250 hours, and I haven’t found a single one. I’ve hatched at least 120 ( ~4-5 boxes )eggs ! So I wouldn’t say its all that much more common!

    Honestly, shinies becoming a little more common was pretty predictable. The playerbase has drastically increased over the years and thus the number, and awareness of shinies has too.

    I always thought shinies were a sort of trophy to make you feel unique, and distinguish yourself from the rest. And basically make your play experience different. But making them randomly created by every individual games to simulate rarity is an odd way of doing it.

    I think they should rely on letting you slightly “customize” your Pokemon with little details instead. Like warpaint, cloaks, ribbons, scarves, a trim like furfrou, or other random items visible during combat. (Of course, maybe not to the extent of TF2 ..)

    I mean its clear that they’re attempting to have you like your pokemons for more than just combats, and want to give us the ability to raise them the “way we want”. (Though, some pokemons are inherently limited in the kind of strategy they have access to and end up being the same for a lot of people..)
    And even in the anime, they’ve given little unique differences to many pokemons, like that squirtle wearing sunglasses, the butterfree wearing a yellow scarf, or that pikachu with the different looking hair, and etc….

    Just by looking at how they made the IVs, EVs and base stats stack one over the other, and give us limited control on it, to make so much variables that two pokemons with exactly similar stats are hard to come by, or even hard to know what stats they even have.. I think its obvious they tried to find a way to have pokemons that would have different strengths and weaknesses, but it kinda failed once player vs player competition and fairness became an issue, and once they’ve made the process more accessible and less time consuming.

    So it would only make sense to make them stand out from the others as much as possible. And by giving a large selection of customizations, they eliminate the need of making one generic randomly determined difference only to give an impression of being different to each players. Or at least, it could seriously add to it, given I doubt they’d ever remove shinies.

    I’m not sure if it makes much sense the way I put it though.. Not sure why I even went on that tangent… :/

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  118. no they haven’t i’ve been trying to hatch a shiny phantump for literally three weeks now and i had no luck no far. i’m about to give up and train a regular phantump 🙁

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  119. I totally agree with this article. Gamefreak shouldn’t have made getting shiny ones so easy as they have lost most of their value. I see lots of trainers offering so many shiny Pokémon in exchange, so many that I no longer want to have shiny ones because almost everyone already does. In the future the “special thing” will be to have a regular Pokémon.

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  120. I have played the game nearly 500 hours. I have a living Pokedex of everything that’s available. http://imgur.com/a/eOIfe Many of my hours of gameplay were spent in the Friend Safari. I’ve bred tons of eggs, most of which were unintentionally Masuda Method. I’ve attemted Poke Radar and Chain Fishing (reaching a record of 68).

    I have not had a random shiny encounter in my entire time of playing X. The shinies I own come from the GTS. If the shiny rate has indeed increased, I fail to see it in my game. >:(

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  121. No way! To me, they haven’t because some of the shines look super cool!
    Besides, I haven’t encountered any >.< EVER
    It upsets me so much, because I'm just like,
    Me: *Sitting in class*
    Friend who plays Pokemon: *Sits down also* Guess what? I got a box full of shinies, and this one I found in your Safari!
    Me: *Hits desk, hopeless* WHY ME?!?!
    Seriously, that happens. Everyday.
    So, no I don't believe they lost their value, because some are like me, and never have found a shiny ever, and trying to find one is their ultimate quest.
    Like mine.
    YOU WILL BE MINE SHINY!!!

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  122. I’ve only got 1 shiny in my Y game, it’s a shiny poliwhirl now a poliwrath. but im really wanting a shiny gardevoir and a shiny gyarados and maybe a shiny gangar but im unlucky. in my soulsilver i found a shiny gravaler but killed it X_X awhile ago.

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  123. i feel 50-50 on this, although i dont think they lost there value too much, alot of people still cant get one, i still havent found one in y so i find that whole they easy to catch in x and y is bull, however i do still think they have lost their uniquness when it comes to nature,abilities or ivs, people care too muich about that so it wouldn’t matter if you got a shiny caterpie if its ivs aint good who cares.i still think they should introduce new colors though, i been thinking about that since tuby and sapphire, treat some pokemon like animals when put under different climates they look different, the anime did this with the orange islands becuase it was more tropical so some pokemon had a more tropical look, why havent they done this is beyond me one of few irks about there series and x and y lost points cause they should of been adpated this into the game by now but won’t go into too much about that, and sure a few pokemon have it like villion but they need more 250-320 pokemon should be enough there so much pokemon now they should really do this add like two more alternate colors(maybe those colors should have shiny too) increase the rarity on the new colors, decrease a little on the old one. just my opinion

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  124. I personnaly find them VERY HARD to catch even if I have Y, and the reason is because I’ve never caught one (only the Shiny Gyarados in Crystal) so I’m still awaiting that “thrill”.

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  125. My starter pokemon was a shiny so I’m not going to complain too much about it, but shiny pokemon have less special meaning to it than it used to without a doubt. Too easy to find. The only way you should be able to find it is randomly, not through chain fishing, breeding, or the poke radar. Don’t waste 100 hours of a game trying to get as many shinies as you can cuz that it just ridiculous. Get a life if you spend more than 5 hours a week shiny hunting.

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  126. I never cared for shinies before, and when I did I only cared about those whose colors I liked (such as green, was it Green Dragonite?)

    3 shinies a day huh? I’m not so sure. In my 550 hours played on Y, I only ever saw a grand total of 1 shiny (Spritzee) and I didn’t really feel anything when I “accidentally” fainted it.

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